Gold at the Wood Awards

Kings Place Concert Hall wins Gold Award at the Wood Awards.

The project was the proud winner of two awards which took place at Carpenters Hall on Wednesday 14th October.  The first being the winner of the Commercial and Public Access catergory, the 2nd being the Gold Award, which is awarded to the winner of the winners.

The judges were unanimous in their decision in awarding gold to a ‘truly outstanding project’

The Kings Place development in King’s Cross is a brand new cultural landmark offering an exciting range of mixed use facilities. There are many significant aspects to this building, but perhaps the most important is the new public concert hall, the first to be built in central London since the completion of the Barbican in 1982. The hall holds 420 people with 300 seats provided in the gently raked stalls and a further 120 seats around the upper gallery. With its elegant interior and state-of-the-art acoustic performance, it is intimate, yet large enough to accommodate a small orchestra and has regularly been used for live radio broadcasts since its official opening in October 2008.
In terms of its construction, it is a building within a building – a box that sits on rubber mounts to give it complete acoustic separation from the rest of the building and the outside world. Structural columns around the hall are set away from the walls to allow curtains to be drawn between the columns and the wall to modify the acoustic for speech or amplified music. This relatively complex design detail allows this adaptation to happen without changing the architectural appearance of the hall.

To see this article in full please visit http://www.woodawards.com/kings-place-concert-hall/

BUILDING OWNER: PARABOLA LAND LTD
ARCHITECT: DIXON JONES LTD
BUILDER/MAIN CONTRACTOR: SIR ROBERT MCALPINE LTD
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS: ARUP NEWCASTLE
JOINERY: SWIFT HORSMAN LTD
OTHER ASSOCIATED COMPANY: ARUP ACOUSTICS