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| Foster Presents Plans For New Venue For Scotland Foster and Partners revealed designs for a new performance venue for Scotland. An new addition to the expanding cultural and event hub at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, the new Arena is designed to accommodate a wide range of events - from pop concerts to grand theatrical shows. As part of the new Queen’s Dock (QD2) development, the Arena’s relationship to the Clyde Auditorium and the river itself creates a fresh public approach to the SECC, framing a new outdoor square. The main entrance is carved into a generous top-lit ground level foyer. The second main foyer, at high level, has its own distinct character with views south through a glazed facade, over the public square to the river. The state-of-the-art auditorium provides a performance ‘bowl’ with seating for up to 12, 500 people at ground level with a combination of fixed, retractable and removable seating to create different staging and concert layouts, including some sports events. The upper part of the building is clad in translucent material which allows the front of the building to glow at night and will also facilitate the projection of patterns or images onto the faзade to subtly change its appearance. The angle of the roof gives a low profile facing onto the expressway. Moving around to the south of the building, the faзade reveals itself, culminating in the 40m-high front elevation. Internally, fixed seating wraps around the stage above ground level, rising further to the front to optimise the balance between viewing angle and distance to the stage. This gives the auditorium its distinctive sloping appearance. The roof of the auditorium will itself be spectacular, spanning 120 metres in a shallow dome of diagonally latticed steelwork. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |