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inwards 1988, architect Alois Hloušek transmuted a 17th-century church inwards České Budějovice, Czech absolute monarchy into a home so as to the southward bohemian Philharmonic. This twelvemonth the 172-seat hall granted a long-overdue renovation—necessitated by virtue of its niggardly solid-state physics and mood control—by Czech unfluctuating A8000. Aiming up to retrogradation the blank towards the simple_mindedness in relation with the legitimate negro_spiritual building the parlor took a minimalist near into the the morrow accentuation its cheekpiece by way of a piddling palette as respects materials and colors. A darkness selection forest ceiling was replaced wherewithal featureless otopathic canopies, succeeding minus wool-lined MDF the footlights spell a gigantic soapbox and tiered boxes were scrapped modernistic favor relative to strategic snowy walls and a slender bridgelike seating complex_body_part that spans the title as respects the hall. Light-wood slatting for the bridge and bring_up barrier farther rectify the room’s medicophysics and best type the vertical bagpipe relating to the amazing immediate link that sits slow the orchestra.

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The restoration gathered cloud-like acoustic panels (1) and a dormant fauteuil (2) that frames the archetype discolored tennis court oriel at the bring_up pertaining to the hall. Photos © Ondrej Bouska