Centre de Musique à Londres

Cette consultation porte sur le choix d’une équipe complète d’experts à même de concevoir le projet le plus inspirant et le plus innovant pour la musique à Londres. Ce projet est à l’initiative du Barbican, du London Symphony Orchestra et de la Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Il sera financé par la City of London Corporation.

The Centre for Music project, led by partners the Barbican, London Symphony Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, has today announced the competitive process, funded by the City of London Corporation, for the recruitment of an expert design team to develop a concept design for an inspiring and innovative new Centre for Music in the City of London.

The three partner organisations, who are leading on the development of a detailed business case for the new Centre backed by the City of London Corporation, are seeking applications from internationally recognised experts from across the globe to develop plans for a state-of-the-art building of acoustic and visual excellence.

The partners are looking to appoint a design team comprised of creative and world-leading experts in their field that share the partners’ vision, that can engage with the multi-faceted nature of the brief, and who can work with them towards a concept design to ensure the most exciting and dynamic outcome for the project.

The procurement process, submitted as Contract Notices to the Official Journal of the European Union, will lead to the appointments of the following roles to develop a concept design for the new Centre, with the intention of continuing the contracts to project completion. The concept design will form part of the detailed business case to be submitted to the City of London Corporation in December 2018:

 Architect
 Building Service Engineer
 Civil & Structural Engineer
 Acoustician
 Theatre Consultant

The City of London Corporation has provided up to £2.5 million in funding to complete this detailed business case for the Centre for Music. The Centre would contain a world-class concert hall, education, training and digital spaces, excellent facilities for audiences and performers, and significant supporting commercial areas. It would be a place of welcome, participation, discovery and learning fit for the digital age.

At the heart of the City of London’s thriving arts venues and its emerging cultural hub, this landmark new building would be a visible signal of commitment to the future of music that enhances London’s position as a world leading centre for the cultural and creative industries.

The preferred site for the Centre for Music, which the City of London Corporation has agreed in principle to make available, is currently occupied by the Museum of London, and will become available when the Museum of London fulfils its ambition to move to a new site at West Smithfield. The current Museum of London building would be demolished with the site reimagined and redesigned to accommodate the new landmark Centre for Music.

The strategic location of the site would open up a new ‘cultural corridor’ bringing visitors up from Tate Modern, via the Millennium Bridge and St Paul’s into the emerging cultural hub developed by the City Corporation and its four core partners the Barbican, Guildhall School, London Symphony Orchestra and Museum of London. 1.5 million additional visitors a year are expected in the area from 2018 as Crossrail opens stations at Farringdon and Moorgate, and the North-South Thameslink line is also upgraded.