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 > From: [log in to unmask] > 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 > -- Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] > Aurora, Ontario, Canada 647 479 2800 > http://www.richardhess.com/tape/contact.htm Quality tape transfers -- > even from hard-to-play tapes.