![]() It sits on the corner of University Avenue and North Lake Street, next to UW-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art. With concrete structures and the exterior of the building rising, it is now about 30 percent complete. “Just to keep the outside noise out makes it complicated.” “The acoustical considerations for all three of those spaces makes for very complicated architecture and mechanics,” said Peter Heaslett, UW-Madison’s project manager. The acoustic system and concrete double-walls and roof will also keep traffic and campus noise outside so they don’t affect the sound quality inside. ![]() ![]() The building will include three main venues: the concert hall, a recital hall and rehearsal space. The circles - which won’t be visible from the outside after construction - are part of the concert hall’s acoustic system that will help ensure large concerts, ensembles, recitals, other performances and lectures sound great when the building is completed in early 2019. The circular forms built into the concrete structure of UW-Madison’s new music hall weren’t put there as windows or for aesthetics.Īnd although concert-goers at UW-Madison’s new Hamel Music Center won’t be able to gaze out of them when the building is complete, they will still notice the shapes inside the hall.
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