Müpa Budapest
Box-within-box concert hall floating on rubber springs, crowned by one of Europe's largest pipe organs.
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This guide to Müpa Budapest starts in an unfinished, dusty concert hall in 2003, when conductor Adam Fischer walked in and declared it a Wagnerian Valhalla. It follows Gabor Zoboki, a musician turned architect who spent eighteen months quietly persuading Budapest's decision-makers and musicians to let him build a true symphonic hall rather than the museum he'd been asked for, working with acoustician Russell Johnson for three years on the design. Best listened to from a seat facing the stage's rising pipes.
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