The main features of the building are a 4,000 m2 cable net façade and 500 m2 glass roof, both of which were designed and built by Austrian specialist contractor Waagner Biro.
As of 2007 it had reached almost 300 million dollars making Koncerthuset the most expensive concert hall ever built at the time.
[3] The former record holder for cost had been the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles at 274 million dollars.
The structure can be likened to a meteor covered by big blue screens, supposed to resemble water, that can be used to project visual content on.
When the surroundings are too neutral we must create a transition, a distance between them, and us, not as a retreat into ourselves, but as a means to establish conditions that will allow a particular territory to blossom.
I propose to materialize the context by creating an exceptional urban building respecting the planned layout of the site.
The restaurant is dominated by a covered square, a large empty volume beneath the wooden "scales" cladding the concert hall above.
The architecture asserts itself through details - doors, lighting, ceilings, and staircases - a testimony of respect for the buildings' visitors, concertgoers, and artists.
Each room becomes a discovery, each detail an invention, lessons learned from Theodor Lauritzen and Hans Sharoun whose certain kind of architecture should never be forgotten, and to whom this project is a discrete homage.