FX – August 2019

FOCUS 057

Above The 2,000-seat

concert hall was inspired

by the geological formations

of layered strata

Right Commercial space and

a restaurant will also form

The Centre part of the building

for Music,

London

Diller Scofidio

+ Renfro

NEW YORK-BASED design studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro

has unveiled concept designs for a world-class Centre for

Music on the current Museum of London site.

At the heart of the new centre will be an ‘acoustically

perfect’, timber, 2,000-seat concert hall, sitting atop a

pedestrian plaza and foyer with additional spaces for

performance, education and rehearsal. Four floors of

commercial space will rise above, together with a

restaurant. Crowning the stack will be The Coda, a flexible,

intimate venue for contemporary performance with

spectacular views towards St Paul’s Cathedral.

‘We want to unlock the urban potential of the Centre

for Music’s site at the southern tip of the Barbican by

reclaiming the roundabout for the public realm, where

the car’s isolating effects are keenly felt today,’ says

Elizabeth Diller, founding partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

ALL IMAGES: DILLER SCOFIDIO AND RENFRO