center surrounded by the audience we took inspiration from the theater carved out of stone in epidaurus greece. football stadiums to. they have spectator seating going right up to the top. and it's that verticality that defines the space for the musicians. the site has only recently been devoted to the performing arts in one thousand nine hundred eighty six a red brick warehouse for coffee tea and cocoa was built here but the rise in container shipping methods of performers get shut down and stood empty. him half the building stands out here in the harbor there are a lot of red brick buildings here on the docks but this one from the sixty's the ending here so defiantly. was a great basis for the new film monye which is entirely different. over. the construction of the new concert hall began in april two thousand and seven but was soon interrupted by numerous problems and postponements for a time clashes over the soaring costs led to a complete halt in construction. work eventually resumed in two thousand and thirteen albeit with a new projected cost to the taxpayer of seven hundred eighty nine