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National Music Centre concept<\/a> from Allied Works<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brian Libby writes on his Portland Architecture<\/a> blog that Allied Works<\/a>, a Portland architectural firm, has won the design competition for the new National Music Centre in Calgary.\u00a0 It’s a striking structure, and looks like something that would easily fit into the tight blocks of downtown Portland.\u00a0 And I love the way that the team thought about bringing the building to life.\u00a0 There’s so much of that interconnectedness “thing” that runs through the more enlightened circles in Portland’s artistic life, that would engender a new era for the fine arts in Portland.\u00a0 What a resource this will be for Calgary, and one that is desperately needed here in Portland.\u00a0 At least we know that we’ve got home grown talent that could make it happen if only we had a few angel donors and administrators who could gamble (and a gamble it would be) on a high-stakes level for a potentially huge payoff.<\/p>\n

Which still makes me wonder, if we really want to bring major new money into the arts arena, if it’s actually the right time to really launch a campaign to build a new performing arts center in Portland – with a purpose-built symphony hall and recital hall among its primary features.\u00a0 People want to put their name on something, and while more ladies’ restrooms in the Schnitz are great (and needed, from what I hear), a new home for the symphony and the local chamber music and piano series (at least) with a reasonable seating capacity (no more than 1,800) would provide some major deep pockets in the region to have something to put their names on for posterity (are you listening Phil Knight and Nike?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Music Centre concept from Allied Works on Vimeo. Brian Libby writes on his Portland Architecture blog that Allied Works, a Portland architectural firm, has won the design competition for the new National Music Centre in Calgary.\u00a0 It’s a striking structure, and looks like something that would easily fit into the tight blocks of downtown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1000,13],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-video","tag-concert-hall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-PE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1079,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/27\/schnitzer-hall-upgrades\/","url_meta":{"origin":3202,"position":0},"title":"schnitzer hall upgrades?","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This was in today's Daily Journal of Commerce: Changes in store for Schnitz, Main Street New RFP issued by MERC calls for designs of an \u00e2\u20ac\u02dciconic venue\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 next to hall to transform Main Street POSTED: 04:00 AM PDT Monday, August 25, 2008 BY SAM BENNETT The Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fundraising"","block_context":{"text":"fundraising","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/fundraising\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\u00c2\u00a9 Charles Noble","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/5397030_e656dc7e35_b-400x266.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1590,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/berlins-virtual-concert-hall\/","url_meta":{"origin":3202,"position":1},"title":"berlin’s virtual concert hall","author":"Charles Noble","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was dubious of the concept that's been hailed in the press and in the classical blogosphere lately about the Berlin Philharmonic's new Digital Concert Hall project.\u00c2\u00a0 It will offer both live and archived streams in near high-definition video of orchestral and chamber music on demand for a subscription fee\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "music"","block_context":{"text":"music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"dighall","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dighall-400x284.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7547,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/27\/outside-in\/","url_meta":{"origin":3202,"position":2},"title":"outside in","author":"Charles Noble","date":"April 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This past Thursday night, the Oregon Symphony was broadcast as part of a new series of local and web-streamed broadcasts on our local public classical music station, allclassical.org. 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