Cultural and Congress Center, Lucerne, Switzerland

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	Cultural and Congress Center
Designer	Jean Nouvel
Location	Lucerne, Switzerland
Date	1993 to 2000
Building Type	Theater
Construction System	steel, glass
Climate	Cold Temperate
Context	Urban waterfront
Architectural Style	Modern
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Building Details
Client	Tragerstiftung
Cost	130,000,000 Euro (120,000,000 USD)
Area	35,000 square meters (377,000 square feet)
Program	1900 seat symphonic hall , 900 seat multipurpose hall, 300 seat congress hall, committee rooms, museum, restaurants, cafeteria, dressing rooms, administrative and service areas

[edit] In the words of the Creator

"Lucerne sits at the end of a lake :The two parts of the city face each other across the water and look to the mountains beyond. The surrounding landscape, whether in summer or winter, creates a rich visual backdrop to the historically varied existing architecture and dense urban fabric of the city. A new building had therefore to begin from what Nouvel termed “a principle of inclusion”, in which the main element was the lake itself. If the building could not broach the shoreline, the lake would come to the building. " - Ateliers Jean Nouvel

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Architectural Team

Project Manager: Brigitte Metra
Architects: Joêlle Achache, Marie Hélène Baldran, Didier Brault, Sandro Carbone, Gunther Domenig, Xavier Lagurgue, Denis Laurent, Philippe Mathieu, Eric Nespoulos, Julie Parmentier, Mathias Raasch, Markus Roethlisberger, Beth Weinstein, Stefan Zopp

Consultant Team

Consultant Scenographer : Jacques Le Marquet
Visual Artists: Alain Bony, Henri Labiole
Lighting Designer: Ingo Maurer
Structure: Elektrowatt Ingenieurunternehmung AG Pluss Und Meyer Bauingenieure AG
General Coordination And Sanitary Installations: Schudel Ing
Hvac: Aicher, De Martin, Zweng AG
Electricity : Scherler AG
Acoustics: Artec (Russell Johnson)
Pictures: Philippe Ruault

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Culture and Convention Center

The Culture and Congress Centre in Lucerne (or KKL for Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern) is a multi-functional building with a concert hall which is esteemed for its high-profile acoustics. It was built according to the plans of the architect Jean Nouvel and was inaugurated in 1998 with a concert by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado.