Hungarys cultural landmark ‘House of Music’
The new, leading European cultural venue, built as part of the Liget Budapest Project and designed by the renowned Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, has opened its doors.
The much anticipated 9,000-square-metre museum and venue located in Budapest’s green City Park will be dedicated to telling the history of music over the past 2,000 year and can now lay claim as ‘Europe’s largest and most ambitious, multiple award-winning urban cultural development’.
A range of renewable energy strategies, such as geothermal sources, create strong eco credentials for the new House of Music while musically speaking the interior of the concert hall features innovative aural design by Nagata Acoustics (the studio behind similar centres such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, and Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg).
The impressive structure itself, defined by its distinctive, undulating roof is carefully designed to host a range of interactive musical experiences and references trees and the natural canopy of foliage and forests. 30,000 decorative tree leaves can be found set into the suspended ceiling and secured in place by a steel structure made out of 1,000 honeycomb-shaped elements.
Three interior levels provide ample opportunity to celebrate music in various forms – from the lower ground display areas, to the ground floor performance spaces and finally, that roof, inside which music playing meets education in state-of-the-art learning facilities.
