Photo by Marco Borggreve, courtesy of Rhinegold Publishing
KPMB Architects has been shortlisted for the design of a new arts centre in Edinburgh, Scotland. The proposed new building will provide a performance, rehearsal and recording home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
The auditorium will meet the long-recognized need for a purpose-built, mid-sized performance venue in Edinburgh, combining excellent acoustics with access for all forms of popular music, jazz, folk, chamber and other small classical music groups as well as solo and song recitals and small dance ensembles.
Each August the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) which is the world?s premier arts festival, will adopt the complex as one of its principal, all-day venues for festival performances. Throughout the year the centre will allow people from all communities the opportunity to enjoy life-enhancing cultural and educational experiences, offering the finest facilities for young musicians to perform, train and receive coaching from the SCO, other professional artists and EIF performers.
The six shortlisted teams include:

KPMB (Toronto) with Simpson & Brown Architects, David Narro Associates, Arup, Sound Space Vision, rankinfraser landscape architecture and Transsolar Energietechnik
Adjaye Associates (London) with Sandy Brown, Buro Happold and DHA Designs
Allies & Morrison (London) with Charcoalblue, Speirs & Major, Harrison Stevens and Buro Happold
Barozzi Veiga (Switzerland) with Alan Bax...