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For architects Seymour Harris Partnership, designing St David’s Hall was an unusual, if not unique, commission for several reasons.
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For architects Seymour Harris Partnership, designing St David's Hall was an unusual, if not unique, commission for several reasons. The primary challenge was how to provide a major 2,000-seat concert hall in the cramped space available and to complicate this issue, the building had to be fitted into an existing planned, and partly built, shopping centre. The result was that, in an incredible five years from conception to completion, an impressive 2,000-seat concert hall, with arguably the best acoustics in Europe was built directly over the St David's Centre shopping mall. Because the shopping centre below the hall was already under construction, a huge rein-enforced concrete slab was positioned to transfer the weight of the concert hall onto the centres main columns. The architects were assisted by a team of consultants on several areas, for example in the acoustic design they had the advantage of some pioneering work by Cambridge...
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