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Egalitarianism will be rampant in the nation's newest, most luxurious concert hall. At "topping out" ceremonies last week at Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center (to be completed in 1962), Architect Max Abramovitz promised that the new auditorium will do away with the old labels for different-priced seats. Balconies will be called terraces, and loge seats will replace the traditional boxes. The loge seats, however, "will be more generously spaced" than those in the terraces and orchestra. Concertgoers in even the remotest seats will sit under "clouds" of acoustical panels that will heighten tonal quality...
...Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, designed in 1930 by a task force of architects (Reinhard & Hofmeister; Corbett, Harrison & MacMurray; Hood & Fouil-houx) and still expanding, with its 16th building, Harrison & Abramovitz' 47-story TIME & LIFE Building, now going...
Around the new Met will be grouped structures for the other performing arts. Manhattan Architect Max Abramovitz (Harrison's partner) is designing the Concert Hall, aimed at seating 2,550 and achieving even greater acoustical perfection than the New York Philharmonic's famed Carnegie Hall. To house a permanent dance repertory group, Architect Philip Johnson (TIME, July 2, 1956) will design a structure that will have "walls papered with people," i.e., a system of balconies giving clear sight lines to the stage. M.I.T. Architecture Dean Pietro Belluschi will build a new Juilliard School. For a park...
...find his inspiration, the senior partner of Harrison & Abramovitz in 1954 toured the great cathedrals of England, France and Germany. Through his friend, Painter Fernand Leger, he met Chartres' famed stained-glass artist, Gabriel Loire, who molded the glass according to Harrison's design. The ruby, amber, amethyst, emerald and sapphire glass sections, roughly chipped to flash like jewels, are laid out to form abstract designs representing the Crucifixion and Resurrection...
Almost lost to sight in the worldwide building boom of new factories, apartment houses and skyscrapers are the new concert halls and opera houses going up to keep pace with the ever-growing music audience. In the U.S., Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz are at work on plans for a new home for the Metropolitan Opera Co. in Manhattan's Lincoln Square development. A $2,000,000 opera house has been projected for Colorado Springs by Architect Jan Ruhtenberg which features sculptural shell concrete forms with adjustable walls that can be thrown wide open to empty a full...