celebrate the brand new $326 million kaufman center for the performing arts, and its architect, moshe safdiee us a tour of the new home of the kansas city symphony, ballet, and lyric opera-- two state-of-the-art spaces united by a multi-tiered lobby with sweeping views of the city. on the north facade, waves of stainless steel that form a gigantic shell. on the south, 40,000 square feet of glass anchored to the ground with 27 high tension cables. >> it's almost like a musical instrument. a giant person could come and play the strings, play the building like a harp. >> brown: safdie, who's designed numerous cultural institutions all over the world, says, for him, the function of a building always determines the form that he creates. >> performing arts buildings are complex. the acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. so you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. and if you fail there, you've failed it all. but it's got to go beyond that. because it's got to be about the ritual of partaking in the performing arts. it's just got to uplift pe