composite will house city's orchest...

composite will house city's orchestra and long more

After more than a decade of design changes, funding tribulations and civic outcry, country has at last been spent for the new $255 million Regional Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia. When complet in 2001 the center will include a 2,500-seat cello-shaped plan hall -- future hearthstone of the Philadelphia Orchestra -- and a multiuse 650-seat recital theater for local form into groupss

Designed through New York City-based architect Rafael Vinoly, the tangled skein will house the two performance venue below a steel-framed barrel-vault glass vault The ...