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2006
Openings Press Kit - 5.6 MB
Ziff
Ballet Opera House
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In October 2006, Miami opened one of the newest
large performing arts centers in the world. It includes two state-of-the-art
performance venues, an education center, an expansive outdoor plaza,
and a historical landmark 1929 Art Deco tower. Knight Concert Hall
and Ziff
Ballet Opera House are the primary performance spaces, and are
housed in separate buildings in the complex.
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County
is the Miami home for the Concert
Association of Florida, Florida
Grand Opera, New
World Symphony, Cleveland
Orchestra and Miami
City Ballet, as well as being the premier venue for a wide array
of local, national, and international performances. Visiting ensembles
and shows range from Broadway musicals and classical artists to
World and Urban music, Latin music shows, and popular entertainment
from many cultures.
The Knight Concert Hall seats 2200 and is designed for world class
acoustics for symphony orchestra, recitals, chamber music, chamber
orchestra. It is designed to support a wide array of other performance
types such as lightly amplified pop and jazz. To accommodate the
wide range of intended uses, the room is equipped with adjustable
acoustic systems, including a three piece individually adjustable
acoustical canopy, acoustics curtains and banners, as well as an
adjoining acoustics control chamber and chamber doors, which can
be opened or closed to change the Hall's "acoustical environment.”
Artec provided Design and Planning services covering Auditorium
Acoustics Design, Specialized
Performance Equipment Systems (sound & communication systems)
design and Noise
& Vibration Control consulting. Architect for the Adrienne
Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County was
Pelli
Clarke Pelli Architects.
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