LINDE CENTER FOR MUSIC AND LEARNING LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS WILLIAM RAWN ASSOCIATES^59
THE HILLS ARE ALIVE The complex sits up the
hill from Rawn’s celebrated Seiji Ozawa Hall
(opposite, top) and includes a low-slung cafeteria
that looks out to a 100-year-old oak tree.
1 TAPPAN ESTATE HOUSE
2 HIGHWOOD ESTATE HOUSE
3 THE SHED
4 SEIJI OZAWA HALL
5 LINDE CENTER FOR
MUSIC AND LEARNING
strategies for connecting the audience to the
outdoors with abundant apertures, like Ozawa
Hall’s 50footwide barn door. But now, he
points out, “it’s doubly important to figure
out ways to make Tanglewood more accessible
to everyone—make it more than just a conser
vatory,” because of increasing professional
competition.
Though the center was first envisioned as a
single building next to Ozawa Hall, the architects
broke down the volume so as not to make it
imposing. “This was also an opportunity to
engage the landscape in different ways,” says
WRA design principal Cliff Gayley, “including the
spaces between programmatic elements, so you
could experience the joy of passing through the
landscape as you went room to room.” Working
with Reed Hilder brand landscape architects
(which is engaged in an ongoing project to unify
and enhance the larger campus), the design team
relocated the site up the hill to a former overflow
parking lot, because, says Rawn, “We wanted
these studios to partake of the lawn as the other
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