The Berliner Philharmonie stands near the Tiergarten in Berlin, completed in 1963 to a design by the German architect Hans Scharoun, built as the home of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra after its earlier hall had been destroyed in the Second World War. Its irregular, tent-like roofline and asymmetrical golden aluminum-clad exterior were unconventional for a concert hall of its era, but the building's most influential innovation lies inside: rather than facing a single stage from fixed rows, the audience sits in a vineyard-style arrangement of terraced blocks surrounding the orchestra on nearly all sides, with the conductor and musicians placed at the center of the room instead of at one end. This in-the-round seating configuration, developed by Scharoun with the acoustician Lothar Cremer, was considered a radical departure from the traditional shoebox concert hall and has since been widely imitated in concert hall designs around the world. The building survived in continuous use through the Cold War as a cultural landmark of West Berlin, and it remains one of the defining examples of postwar organic Expressionist architecture in Germany.
Facts
Building Type LocationTiergarten, Berlin, Germany 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
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Source Berliner Philharmonie, Wikipedia
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1. Berliner Philharmonie, Wikipedia
Lead paragraph, use
A concert hall in Berlin, Germany, and home to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
Location paragraph
The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall
History, opening
It opened on 15 October 1963 with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony.
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The Berliner Philharmonie stands near the Tiergarten in Berlin, completed in 1963 to a design by the German architect Hans Scharoun, built as the home of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra after its earlier hall had been destroyed in the Second World War. Its irregular, tent-like roofline and asymmetrical golden aluminum-clad exterior were unconventional for a concert hall of its era, but the building's most influential innovation lies inside: rather than facing a single stage from fixed rows, the audience sits in a vineyard-style arrangement of terraced blocks surrounding the orchestra on nearly all sides, with the conductor and musicians placed at the center of the room instead of at one end. This in-the-round seating configuration, developed by Scharoun with the acoustician Lothar Cremer, was considered a radical departure from the traditional shoebox concert hall and has since been widely imitated in concert hall designs around the world. The building survived in continuous use through the Cold War as a cultural landmark of West Berlin, and it remains one of the defining examples of postwar organic Expressionist architecture in Germany.
In Style: Modernist Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Modernist architecture in Germany
View the Source2. Wikidata: Berliner Philharmonie
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- Wikidata Q32653910, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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