Danish designer Adept Architects has won an international competition to turn a former department store into a concert hall in the German city of Braunschweig.
The 18,000-sq-m project will put a lightweight, 1,200-seat hall on top of the repurposed branch of German department chain Karstadt, and add a public music school.
The building’s new façade is inspired by the former Karstadt design.
Green features, such as low-emission district heating, rooftop photovoltaics, passive cooling strategies and the use of cross-laminated timber will be implemented.
The Haus der Musik’s competition jury said: “With equal measures of caution and courage, the winning proposal transforms the existing building through adaptive reuse into an important component for Braunschweig’s city centre, as well as for the city’s musical landscape.
“The difficult balancing act between preservation, transformation and innovation has been convincingly achieved. Even if the interpretation and conceptual reuse may seem surprising at first glance, the contextual integration is comprehensible, sensitive and convincing.”
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