User:Basak/CSO Ada Ankara
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| Address | Talatpaşa Bulvarı, No: 38, 06330 Opera 20457 Ankara, Turkey[1] |
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| Type | Concert hall |
| Capacity | 2,023 |
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| Architect | Semra Uygur & Özcan Uygur |
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| csoadaankara.ktb.gov.tr | |
CSO Ada Ankara is the musical campus in Ankara, where the symphonic concert hall which hosts the Presidential Symphony Orchestra is located.
The complex houses 2023-seat CSO Main Hall, the 500-seat Blue Hall, the 650-seat old orchestra building (historical CSO), a 10000 capacity open-air concert area and the CSO Museum.[2] It was designed by Semra and Özcan Uygur of Uygur Architects whose project was chosen among over forty-five other entries to the National Architectural Competition in 1992[3], constructed between 1995-2020. The project entailed contstruction of 3 air-formed membrane buildings. The main concert hall’s air-formed membrane inflated in 2012.[4]
Opened with gala concerts held on December 3, 4 and 5 and it became the first concert hall in the world to open after the Elbphilharmonie in Berlin which was completed in 2017.
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The venue constitutes an indoor area of 62,547 square meters and In addition to the Turkish Presidential Orchestra, hosts the State Polyphonic Choir, Turkic World Music Ensemble, State Turkish Folk Music Choir, State Classical Turkish Music Choir and State Folk Dances Ensemble.[5]
Located in a relatively abandoned urban landscape that sees both Anıtkabir and the historic Ankara Citadel; it symbolizes the dialogue of the premodern and modern-republican histories of the city established through the triangular prism foyer.[6] In addition to foyer campux includes two more buildings: the the egg-shaped dome designed as the Symphony Orchestra Hall and the sphere dome designed as Chamber Orchestra Hall.
References
[edit]- ^ "Bize Ulaşın". Official Website. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "CSO Ada becomes cultural island in capital". Hurriyet Daily News. October 26, 2021.
- ^ "Accoustical Design of Music Practice Rooms: CSO Concert Hall Indiviudal and Choir Practise Rooms" (PDF). Diyarbakır, turkey: 13th National Congress on Acoustics - TAKDER. October 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- ^ "The Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall and Choir Buildings / Uygur Architects". archdaily.com.
- ^ "The Turkish Presidential Symphony Orchestra's New Building Opened its Doors as Turkey's Cultural Campus". Menafn.com. May 12, 2022.
- ^ "The Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall and Choir Buildings / Uygur Architects".