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HISTORY
HISTORY

OMA collaborated with Porto Office of Metropolitan Architecture, the scene agency Ducks scéno,
the acoustician Renz Van Luxemburg and AFA, while the interiors were designed by Inside
Outside (Petra Blaisse). The site was once a staging area for trams. Construction occurred in the
next four years and cost 100 million Euros. Casa da Música is opened to the public on 14 April 2005,
featuring a 1300-seat auditorium suffused with dayligh. Casa da Música is the only concert hall in
the world with two walls made entirely of glass. Nicolai Ouroussoff (top left), architecture critic
from the New York Times, classified it as the "most attractive project the architect Rem Koolhaas
has ever built" and indicated that it's "a building whose intellectual ardour is matched by its
sensual beauty". In September 2008, the Casa da Música hosted the Orquestra Nacional do Porto,
which took part in explorative public presentations, where performed music was captured
alongside musician's and conductor's expressive gestures. Casa da Musica is a multi-purpose
music and arts space comprising two main auditoriums, rehearsal rooms and recording studios
for the Porto National Opera. A 150-seat restaurant on the building rooftop was opened in August
2006.“Casa da Musica has received its first award – RIBA’s 2007 European Award.

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