In the News
Financial Times
- Ariella Budick
"In the barnlike concert hall, this tension between isolation and cosiness has its sublime side Designed by Laura Viklund of Gunnstock Timber Frames, the structure's thick larch-wood beams and weathered-steel armour give it a tough, blizzard-defying look. Inside, the architecture treats sound like a precious substance."
Photo credit: Erik Petersen
Photo credit: Erik Petersen
The Boston Globe
- Alexis Marie Adams
"there's the Olivier Music Barn, a gem of a concert hall with seating for an audience of just 150."
BBC - Buildings to look out for in 2016
-Jonathan Glancey
"Such a modest and appropriate design as these three cultural projects offer a counterbalance to the ways in which global cities are thrusting upwards, and both creating and consuming architecture and culture at a titanic scale."
Photo credit - Erik Petersen
Interior Design
- Annie Block
Photo credit: Andre Constantini
Chicago on the Aisle
-Lawrence B. Johnson
"At Tippet Rise, the usual performing space is the Olivier Barn, a cozy, serene room lined with larch wood, its ceiling rising at a steep slope. The barns seats about 100 and affords agreeable acoustics, which I experienced from several different perspectives in concerts by musicians of the first rank."
