Flanagan Lawrence has won a competition to design a new Summer Theatre in Kasprowicza Park, Szczecin, Poland. The outdoor performance space will update an original structure, including its concrete arch, designed by Zbigniew Abrahamowicz and opened to the public in 1976. Read more about this project after the break.

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Flanagan Lawrence has won a competition to design a new Summer Theatre in Kasprowicza Park, Szczecin, Poland. The outdoor performance space will update an original structure, including its concrete arch, designed by Zbigniew Abrahamowicz and opened to the public in 1976. Read more about this project after the break.

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The new design is meant to maximize the flexibility of the 1976 theatre for a variety of performances, adding a roof to enclose the stage and audience; and adding 2500 seats, a box office, bathrooms, a café and a refurbished backstage area.

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The roof has been acoustically optimised to ?enhance and project the natural acoustic for orchestral events? by being structural independent of the existing arch. A curved truss serves as the edge beam of a single cable net structure that supports the inflated fabric roof panels and suspended acoustic reflectors. Two additional trusses span the stage to support the load of the lighting grid.

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