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KKE Architects Designs Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's New VenueKKE Architects has designed the highly anticipated new venue for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO), helping to expand the Symphony's reach into the northern suburbs and provide a home for up to 35 national concerts annually as well as 15-25 arts-related, family, and free events in Fulton County, in the northern suburbs of Atlanta.
Earlier this year the ASO awarded naming rights to Verizon Wireless, a 12,000-seat, 46-acre site at Encore Park.
Ground was broken in June and the venue is scheduled to open in May of 2008.
Minneapolis based KKE Architects created seating for 7,000 people under a translucent fabric, fan-shaped roof suspended over a steel-framed structural system made up of large box truss girders and columns set 60-feet above the seating area.
Within the covered area are 4,750 fixed, stadium style seats and 46 box suites plus 2,068 removable seats.
An additional 5,000 patrons can be seated outside on a lawn area surrounded by two plazas featuring decorative facades and six entry gates.
Each plaza has a large food preparation building and seven food and beverage kiosks.
Sasaki Associates, landscape architects and master planners, Boston, Mass., collaborated on the design of the 46-acre wooded site.
"There's something very elegant and classical about enjoying a concert in the park," said Bill Bethmann, senior associate, KKE Architects.
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