I never knew the complete history of the Henry & Edsel Ford Memorial Auditorium.In case anybody else did not either,it's all here.
http://historicdetroit.org/building/ford-auditorium/
 
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:32:58 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Old Mercury recording venue gets a rebuild
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Hi, Tom,
> 
> I think there is double good news in this:
> 
> (1) Science has moved really far from the original Avery Fisher days. It 
> sounds as if ARUP can do real-time acoustic modelling and allow the 
> design and client teams to hear the tradeoffs of design decisions. This 
> is a few steps beyond SIASOFT, which was a real breakthrough 20 years 
> ago (or so).
> 
> (2) ARUP has had an acoustics team for at least 20 years -- I worked 
> with them on some projects during my last decade at NTC in Glendale, CA. 
> They were very good, as I recall. It seems they are doing more of this 
> type of work worldwide and it would be interesting to look at some of 
> their recent projects and the reviews thereof.
> 
> 
> On 2014-03-18 3:11 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
> > Hopefully this won't be like the many mistaken iterations of Avery
> > Fisher Hall
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Long" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 2:34 PM
> >
> >> If think the acoustics might just end up being on the good side of "state
> >> of the art."  See www.arup.com/Projects/Northrop_Auditorium.aspx.
> >>
> >> Jim Long
> >> Baroda, MI
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