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Concert Hall Building Designs
Modern Music Complex + Opera House Designs. International Built Environment – Key Contemporary Properties
post updated 14 January 2026
e-architect have selected what we feel are the key examples of Concert Hall Building Designs. We aim to include high quality design-led Concert Hall buildings and architectural projects.
e-architect cover completed Concert Hall buildings, opera houses and music complexes, new building designs and architecture competitions across the world. Our focus is on contemporary Music Hall buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
Concert Hall Architecture Designs
Concert Hall Buildings : A-G
Concert Hall Building Designs : H-Q (this page)
Concert Hall Architecture : R-Z
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Concert Hall Designs
Architectural Designs, alphabetical:
Houston Ballet Building, Texas, USA
Design: Gensler
photo : Nic Lehoux
Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Design: Gehry Partners, LLP
photo © 2008 Gehry Partners LLP
Jay Pritzker Pavilion Chicago
Millennium Park is part of the larger Grant Park. The pavilion, which has a capacity of 11,000, is Grant Park’s small event outdoor performing arts venue, and complements Petrillo Music Shell, the park’s older and larger bandshell.
Kristiansund Opera House, Kristiansund, Norway, northern Europe
Design: Brisac Gonzalez Architects / Space Group
picture : luxigon
Kristiansund Opera House
There are already two significant buildings on the site – a 19th century school building and an early 20th century Folkets Hus. To engulf them by a third larger building would diminish their integrity.
L`Auditori Concert Building, Barcelona, Catalonia, north east Spain, southwestern Europe
Design: Rafael Moneo Architects
picture © Thomas Boczko
L`Auditori Concert Hall Barcelona
This is a modern building with premises covering 42,000 square metres. It is situated at the heart of the new area of urban development in Plaça de les Glòries, where the city’s three widest and longest avenues (Diagonal, Gran Via and Meridiana) converge.
La Philharmonie Luxembourg, Luxembourg, western Europe
Design: Christian de Portzamparc
photograph : Wade Zimmerman
La Philharmonie Luxembourg is located on the Kirchberg plateau, right at the center of a triangular site surrounded with offices and European administration buildings. Filtering light, a vast peristyle composed of 827 columns constitutes the foyer all around the Grand Auditorium.
Limoges Concert Hall, France, western Europe
Design: Bernard Tschumi Architects
photo : Christian Richters
Limoges concert hall
The structure is designed to accommodate 6,000 spectators comfortably with configurations for as few as 600 or as many 8,000. Instead of a proscenium, Bernard Tschumi conceived of a stage free of all structural members, with a performance space approximately 260 feet wide by 130 feet deep.
Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas, USA
Architect: Foster + Partners
photo : Iwan Baan
Winspear Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House New York Lobby Renewal, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York City, USA
Metropolitan Opera House Lobby
Molde Jazzhouse & Theatre, Norway, northern Europe
Design: 3XN
image from architect
Norwegian jazzhouse : Design Competition
The Norwegian city of Molde has just 25,000 inhabitants, but every July the biggest stars of jazz and about 100,000 jazz enthusiasts flock to the town’s world famous international jazz festival. In designing the city’s new cultural center, the challenge faced by 3XN was to create a building that was flexible and robust enough to provide a framework for cultural life on both scales.
Music Complex, north Rome, Italy, southern Europe
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)
photo © Adrian Welch
Music Auditoria Rome
The Music Building, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe
Design: 3XN Architects
image © Adrian Welch
Amsterdam Music Building
Music Theatre Graz, Austria, central Europe
Design: UN Studio Architects
photograph : Christian Richters
Music Theatre Graz
The new Music Theatre, designed by Ben van Berkel of the renowned Dutch architecture firm UNStudio following an international competition with 212 entries, has already formed the Austrian contribution to the Venice Biennale of Architecture.
Oriental Art Center, Shanghai, China
Design: Paul Andreu Architects
photo from Paul Andreu Architects
Oriental Art Center Shanghai
Oslo Operahouse, Oslo, Norway
Design: Snøhetta
picture : Statsbygg
Norwegian Operahouse
Palacio de Congresos, Lanzarote, Spain
Henning Larsen Architects
image from architect
Palacio de Congresos Lanzarote
Jackson Performing Arts Hall, Wyoming, USA
Stephen Dynia Architects
photo : Ron Johnson Photography
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Modern Concert Hall Building Designs
Music Venue Buildings – no images, alphabetical:
Metropolitan Opera House – Lincoln Center, New York, USA
1966
Wallace K. Harrison, Architect
National Opera House, Genoa, Italy
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Aldo Rossi Architect
North Jutland House of Music, Aalborg, Denmark
2009
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Opéra de la Bastille, Paris, France
1989
Carlos Ott, Architect
Opéra Garnier, Paris, France
1875
Charles Garnier Architect
Performing Arts Centre, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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Moshe Safdie Architects
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Arts Buildings
Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France
2012
Design: Atelier Jean Nouvel
Paris Philharmonic Building
Comments / photos for the International Concert Hall Architecture Designs page welcome.