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The Concert Hall Upholding Pierre Boulez’s Legacy
The late conductor and composer’s friend Frank Gehry was entrusted with the design.Pierre boulez saal architect
By Jonah Inserra March 13, 2017
On a quiet stretch of Französische Straße in central Berlin, so-named in a time when French Protestant refugees comprised a full fifth of the city’s population, a Frenchman of note has taken up a sort of conspicuous residence—this time, in the form of a concert hall bearing his name.
Its story began a few years ago, when Frank Gehry took a trip to the German resort town of Baden-Baden to meet with his longtime friend Pierre Boulez, the famed conductor and composer.
There, he presented a model of the building that would, in many ways, symbolize his legacy, but whose completion he would not live to see (he died in early 2016). “After we gave it to him, he sat in front of the model and just stared into it for hours,” Gehry said in a recent video interview, produced for the hall.
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