Philharmonie
The Berliner Philharmonie—Philharmonie—is a concert hall whose design reshaped how audiences experience orchestral music. Designed by Hans Scharoun in a rationalist style, it was constructed between 1960 and 1963 and opened on 15 October 1963, with Herbert von Karajan conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The building rises on the south edge of the Tiergarten, close to the former Berlin Wall, and it forms part of the Kulturforum complex of cultural institutions near Potsdamer Platz. The hall contains two separate venues: the Großer Saal with 2,440 seats and the Kammermusiksaal with 1,180 seats. Although conceived together, the smaller hall opened in the 1980s, about twenty years after the main building. Scharoun’s “vineyard-style” terraces helped pioneer the model of surrounding the stage with rising seating, a layout later echoed in halls such as the Sydney Opera House and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. …
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