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Amber is intriguingly transparent, especially when it encapsulates an insect – as if it were protecting and caring for a living thing. By comparison, the double-skin façade of the concert hall forms an envelope that provides a microclimate in which the different functions are included as spatial implants: the grand concert hall, the chamber music hall, the experimental stage, music club, and music school, etc. as well as the “Civita Nova” as a performance venue and stage for the people of Liepaja.
The acoustic concept Volker Giencke developed together with Prof. Karlheinz Müller /Müller BBM-Munich, and achieved excellent results, with acoustics based on the principal of an oval, terraced vineyard. Helmholtz-resonators and a very large, adjustable sound reflector are important parts of the acoustic project.
Light also plays a key role in Great Amber. Reaching high above the roof, 14 mirror-finished reflective tubes flood the concert hall with daylight, creating a unique atmosphere inside.
The concert hall can also be adapted for congresses, exhibitions and receptions by elevating the orchestra pit and stalls.
As the budgetary problems were somewhat solved, fatefully the economic crises happened in 2008. The construction costs were halved. Only in 2013 was the start of construction. Both the height of the construction costs and the construction period of 2 years have not been exceeded.
Besides designing unique architecture and equipping the hall with one of the very best acoustics for classical concerts, it had always been our ambition to give Liepaja and its residents a fresh cultural identity with this new concert hall. The completion of the concert hall´s construction marked the birth of a new cultural quarter, of its cultural identity. It was a unique, historic event. Convincing in both architecture and content, this symbolic effect emphasises ”Great Amber’s” connection to the city. It is a new landmark of modern Liepaja.
The international project was planned by an European general planning team of Latvian, German and Austrian experts under the direction of Volker Giencke & Company - Graz.
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Volker Giencke was acknowledged from the start of his career as an outstanding figure among young Austrian architects, he won numerous awards and gained international recognition. As an architect and a university lecturer he was a founding member of the « Graz School of Architecture », a movement that has achieved worldwide fame as the « Genius of Graz ». Volker Giencke has remained an independent force as an architect until today. His work includes the giant glasshouses in the University of Graz Botanical Gardens, the Austrian Pavilion at EXPO ´92 in Seville, the « Odörfer » Exhibition Hall in Klagenfurt, the Abbey of Seckau in Styria, the Hotel Speicher Barth in Germany - converted from a harbour grain elevator, or most recently the «Great Amber » Concert Hall in Liepaja. Each of these buildings is an icon of a global architecture. As chairman of ./studio 3 at the University of Innsbruck he has raised the institute to the first rank among international architecture institutes. Volker Giencke studied architecture and philosophy. He has taught at Yale, the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Rizvi College Bombay and at University College London. He is a Member of the Latvian Chamber of Architects, an Honorary Member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and a Member of the European Academy for Science and the Arts.
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