Chipperfield wins contest to build Scotland’s concert hall

Chipperfield wins contest to build Scotland’s concert hall

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norman lebrecht

May 03, 2017

Fashionable and controversial, David Chipperfield Architects have beaten off tough competition to win the design contract for Edinburgh’s £45 million hall for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

The losers on the shortlist were David Adjaye, Richard Murphy, KPMB (Toronto), Barozzi Veiga from Switzerland and Cambridge’s Allies and Morrison.

No sign yet of the winning design.

Here’s where the hall will go up:

 

Comments

  • NYMike says:

    Not holding my breath waiting for Geffen to be done…..

  • Dan B says:

    Ummm…Chipperfield is not the architect for Geffen. Thomas Heatherwick is.

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