Concertgebouw Brugge
Terracotta-clad concert hall with a spiral chamber room inside a lantern tower, opened for a Cultural Capital of Europe year.
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This guide to Concertgebouw Brugge opens with a deliberately timed clock: on the 20th of February, 2002, conductor Jos van Immerseel raised his baton at 20:02 for Haydn's The Creation, the hall's opening performance. It then rewinds five years to the argument that produced the building at all, a 1997 international competition judged not by an architect but by opera director Gerard Mortier, pitted against famous names like Peter Eisenman and Michael Hopkins. Mortier had spent his career choosing singers and directors, never bricklayers, and his jury weighed those famous names against a pair of little-known architects from Ghent.
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