We are thrilled to share that Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has won an European Club Association (ECA) Award and has been shortlisted for a #TDA24 Concourse Activation Award for the Club's F1 DRIVE - London Project! A huge congratulations to the entire team at Tottenham Hotspur and all involved. We're proud to have partnered with such an innovative and visionary client, providing comprehensive project management and advisory services to bring their bold ideas to life. Our team worked closely on the project from the discovery phase through delivery, ensuring a world-class experience for all. This recognition is a testament to the hard work, creativity, and collaboration that went into making this stadium a truly ground breaking project! Charcoalblue Experience Electrosonic Squint/Opera
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Charcoalblue's mission is to fill the world with the best spaces to make work, tell stories and share experiences.
About us
Charcoalblue is the world’s leading multi-national theatre, acoustic, and digital consultancy. Founded in 2004, we have 120+ team members in London, Bristol, Glasgow, New York, Chicago, Melbourne, Seattle, Portland Oregon, Dallas, San Diego, and the Bay Area of California. We work in a distributed way across the globe. Our theatre consultants and acousticians provide guidance and design for a broad range of buildings and events, including theatre, live performance, music, culture, education, workplaces, entertainment, and sport, striving to be the first and best choice for architects and clients who are designing new spaces or refurbishing existing ones. Our unique collaborative approach and relentless attention to detail on theatre consultancy, acoustics and digital design has won us awards & ecstatic reviews from the theatrical and architectural press. We are grounded in theatre practice and performance, and our team are driven by a passion for all types of performing arts projects, big or small, new-build or refurbishment. Charcoalblue Experience (CBX) is a dedicated business unit within the Charcoalblue group, applying expertise gained from working with globally renowned cultural organizations to the workplace, sports, exhibition and events markets. Working with several leading companies, the CBX team works with any business looking to create spaces for collaboration and storytelling that wants to deliver an enhanced experience for staff, visitors, guests and spectators. Projects include hybrid workplaces, one-off event spaces, sports facilities, broadcast studios, conference centres and ecosystems across entire buildings and campuses. Our CBX team includes specialist Project Managers, Design Managers, Research & Development (R&D) consultants, technical drawing & standards Consultants, Producers, and Administrators and they often work closely with single clients and are fully embedded in their workflows & teams. https://www.cbx.charcoalblue.com/
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- Architecture and Planning
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- 51-200 employees
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- Waterloo, England
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- Privately Held
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- 2004
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- theatre consultants, auditorium design, stage engineering, performance venue specialists, business consulting, theatre planning, acoustics and noise control, audiovisual, project management, user experience, technical design, live events, research and development, design management, and standards
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We’re excited to announce that two of our talented colleagues, James Oakley and David Millman, are campaigning for seats on the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) Board of Directors! James is running for the Themed Entertainment Association Europe & Middle East Division, and David for the Themed Entertainment Association Western North America Division. Both have been deeply involved in the TEA community, bringing their passion, expertise, and creativity to further TEA's aims. Their wealth of experience in themed entertainment and their enthusiasm for innovation make them fantastic candidates to join the board. We wish all the best to everyone campaigning and look forward to further developing our relationship with TEA.
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We are thrilled to share that Jerad Schomer, one of Charcoalblue's Directors, has been featured in the Hip Hop Museum's monthly newsletter for their work on designing the Hip Hop Museum's theater space. In the newsletter, Jerad sits down with Adam Aziz to talk about his extensive background in theater design, his design for The Hip Hop Museum's theater space, and what he wants those visiting the Museum’s theater to walk away with from their experience. To read the full newsletter, click on the link below. https://lnkd.in/e7tqc9G9
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We're excited to announce that the UK NZC Buildings Standard pilot is officially live! This pilot aims to set a new benchmark for a low-carbon future in the built environment. Charcoalblue is proud to have contributed to this initiative by gathering key data from performance venues. Ready to get involved? Read our full article on the pilot and register to join us at the launch webinar on the 31st of October. https://lnkd.in/eZ-NVQy9
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We’re thrilled to announce that Hertford’s bold new cultural hub ‘BEAM’ has been completed! BEAM features a 547-seat theatre, three cinemas, and versatile spaces for everyone to engage with, all built with sustainability and modern technology at its heart. A huge thank you to our long-term collaborators Bennetts Associates and to all our other project partners for making this vision a reality. To find out more about this amazing project and our role in it, please read the attached article: https://lnkd.in/eBMwZGTk Citizens Design Bureau Max Fordham LLP GPF Lewis plc
BEAM Cultural Hub in Hertford Completes: A Sustainable Arts and Community Space - News - Charcoalblue
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This week, Russell Proud, Erin Shepherd, and Pablo Romero attended PAC Australia - Australian Performing Arts Exchange's APAX 2024 conference as representatives of Charcoalblue and as sponsors. Charcoalblue is proud to support APAX in its commitment to forging meaningful connections between its delegates, fostering the professional development of the next generation, and facilitating knowledge exchange. To learn more about the amazing work that PAC Australia and APAX do, click on the following link: https://paca.org.au/. We hope everyone has a wonderful time at APAX! We already cannot wait for the next one!
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Charcoalblue have teamed up with PLASA to create a survey for manufacturers that will inform us of their current environmental journeys. This survey aims to provide a greater understanding of where manufacturers are in terms of environmental sustainability. By undertaking this survey, you are feeding into a much bigger project that will help our industry to create standardised targets and tools whilst aiding transparency across the supply chain. The survey consists of 23 questions, and we expect it should take around 10-20 minutes to complete. To take this survey, click on the link below: https://lnkd.in/eEHdw9eE
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We are excited to reveal the design for the first full-scale restoration, renovation, and modernization of The Apollo's iconic Historic Theater! Working with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects + Planners, Flyleaf Creative, and Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, we have created a design that evokes the spirit of the original, twentieth-century theatre with added upgrades and modernizations. To find out more about this amazing project and our contributions towards it, click on the link below: https://lnkd.in/epSSD3Q9
Revitalization of Apollo's Historic Theatre: Full-Scale Restoration Designs Unveiled - News - Charcoalblue
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We are deeply saddened to hear about the loss of Larry Kirkegaard. Having worked with Larry on the Queen Elisbeth Hall Antwerp, we were fortunate enough to see his innovative approach to making beautiful sounding spaces. Our own Byron Harrison, who leads our global acoustic practice, had this to say about Larry, “My own acoustic design genealogy traces back to Larry. His passion and rigour translated into a professional service that created that standard for what clients and collaborators expect from acousticians. I’m grateful for the kindness, humour, and generosity of sharing ideas that both he and Rogene have offered me and to all of us at Charcoalblue.”
It is our sad duty to report the passing of Larry Kirkegaard. Larry was one of the most prominent acousticians of his generation and the founder of R. Lawrence Kirkegaard & Associates, Inc., the architectural acoustics and integrated systems consultancy now known as Kirkegaard. He was a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and an honorary American Institute of Architects member. From Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall (1975) to Antwerp’s Queen Elisabeth Hall (2016) Larry helped shape hundreds of acoustically excellent spaces - concert halls, multi-purpose halls, theaters, music schools, churches and amphitheaters - beloved by performers and audiences alike. Larry was memorably approachable, warm and charming. He had a knack for intuiting the architectural sources of acoustic problems and envisioning architectural modifications to correct them - and a talent for creating vivid metaphors to explain acoustic concepts to musicians, architects and clients alike. His major renovations include Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco (1992); Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh (1995); Orchestra Hall in Chicago (1997); Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore (2001); and Royal Festival Hall in London (2007). Larry was instrumental in evaluating the acoustics of Carnegie Hall after the 1986 renovation and devising a series of subtle treatments, implemented in the ‘90s, that restored the acoustic beauty of the beloved hall. Larry was born in Colorado in 1937, going east to Harvard, where he earned his AB cum laude from Harvard College in 1960 and his M Architecture from the Graduate School of Design in 1964. While in Cambridge, Larry worked closely with his mentor, Bob Newman, one of the founders of the seminal acoustics consulting firm Bolt Beranek & Newman. Upon graduation he joined BBN, eventually running their Chicago office. He often spoke of how much he learned on one of his earliest tasks at BBN, helping with testing the new Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, famously rebuilt as Avery Fisher Hall and rebuilt again as Geffen Hall. In 1976, Larry left BBN to form Kirkegaard & Associates with his BBN colleagues Pete Tappan and Wally Barrow. Over the following decades, he built Kirkegaard into one of the world’s most respected architectural acoustics consultancies, surrounding himself with talented colleagues who benefited immeasurably from his mentorship and insights and contributed immeasurably to the success of the firm. Larry retired from Kirkegaard Associates in 2015. Larry’s devoted wife, Rogene Kirkegaard, survives him, having dedicated her life to assisting and caring for Larry in his last two decades at Kirkegaard, in the following years when he offered a personal consultancy, LKAcoustics, and in his final years when advanced Alzheimer’s disease made further work impossible. If you would like to leave a message on Larry's Celebration of Life board, visit here https://lnkd.in/gzvmaNft
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We're thrilled to join Burrell Foley Fischer LLP's team to continue our work with Andover's new 'state-of-the-art' culture hub. Building on our concept study, we’re excited to join with BFF to help deliver a vibrant performance space at the heart of Andover's community. To read the full article, click the link below. https://lnkd.in/gpSecGYp.
Hampshire town appoints architects for 'state-of-the-art' culture hub
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