Auditorium Parco della Musicais a public music complex inRome,Italy, with three concert halls and an outdoor theater in a park setting. It was designed by Italian architectRenzo Piano.[1]Jürgen Reinhold of Müller-BBM was in charge of acoustics for the halls; Franco Zagari was landscape architect for the outdoor spaces. Parco della Musica lies with theForo Italicoin the north area of Rome's ancient center, and is home to most of the facilities of theAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
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| Address | Via Pietro de Coubertin, 30 00196Rome,Italy |
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| Location | Flaminio |
| Owner | Comune di Roma |
| Capacity | 2,744 (Santa Cecilia hall) 2,707 (Outdoor theater) 1,133 (Sinopoli hall) 661 (Petrassi hall) 304 (Studio Borgna theater) |
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| Broke ground | 15 January 1995 |
| Opened | 21 April 2002 |
| Architect | RPBW Architects |
| Structural engineer | Studio Vitone & Associati |
| Services engineer | Manens Intertecnica |
| General contractor | Techint |
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| Inaugurated | 21 December 2002 |
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| Developer | Drees & Sommer |
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| Quantity surveyor | Davis Langdon |
The halls are:Sala Santa Cecilia,with about 2800 seats;Sala Sinopoli,in memory of conductorGiuseppe Sinopoli,seating about 1200 people; andSala Petrassi,in memory ofGoffredo Petrassi,with 700 seats. Structurally separated for sound-proofing, they are nonetheless joined at the base by a continuous lobby. Their outerarchitectural formhas led to nicknames such as “the blobs,” “the beetles,” “the turtles” and “the computer mouses”.[1]) The outdoor theater, called theCavea,recalls ancient Greek or Roman performance spaces[1]and is fan-shaped around a centralpiazza.
During construction, excavations uncovered the foundations of a villa and an oil-press dating from the sixth century BC.Renzo Pianothen adjusted his design scheme to accommodate the archaeological remains and included a small museum to house artifacts discovered, delaying the project's completion by a year.[1]Parco della Musica was inaugurated on 21 December 2002. Within a few years it became Europe's most-visited music facility.[2]In 2014, it had over two million visitors, making it the second-most-visited cultural music venue in the world, afterLincoln CenterinNew York.
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Panoramic view of Parco Della Musica.
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