Culture and Conference Center containing an 1840-seat concert hall with variable acoustics, a multi-functional 900-seat hall, a 300-seat auditorium, an art museum and two restaurants.

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Location   Lucerne, Switzerland.

Project Cost   210 millions CHF (approximately 140 million €).

Time Frame   Concert Hall opened August 1998, entire centre opened 2000.

Owner   City and Canton of Lucerne, Concert Hall Foundation, Lucerne Hotel Owner's Association, and Lucerne Society of Fine Arts.

Architect(s)   Jean Nouvel, Ateliers Jean Nouvel, Paris.

Seat Count   1840-seat concert hall, a 900-seat Black box multi-purpose hall and a 280-seat auditorium. The KKL also includes a contemporary art museum, two restaurants and a café.

Uses   The concert hall is home of the Lucerne Festival, one of the most prestigious international music festivals, three times every year. In addition to the Festival, the hall is used for a concert series by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra as well as other guest orchestras, conferences, chamber music concerts and recitals.

Services   Acoustics consulting, collaboration on basic design.

Team   Eckhard Kahle, Project Manager from 1995 to 2000 for Artec Consultant Inc, and Russell Johnson, Robert Essert, Artec Consultants Inc.
Since 2005, Eckhard Kahle, Kahle Acoustics.