CLONGOWES WOOD COLLEGE SJ – SPORTS HALL
JANUARY 2012: Woodfit Acoustics completes supply and installation of Perforated Beech Veneered Panels in Clongowes Wood College – Sports Hall, Ireland.
Al-IMAM UNIVERSITY, SAUDI ARABIA
JANUARY 2012: Woodfit Acoustics to supply Acoustic Panelling for Al-Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University (Al-Imam) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, KUWAIT
JANUARY 2012: Woodfit Acoustics enters into contract to provide Acoustic engineering on Kuwait’s new School of Music.
When complete it will be the largest school of music globally.
THE LEAF REVIEW
The huge success of the Leading European Architects Forum – LEAF has resulted in the launch of a new publication, the LEAF Review, specifically targeting this unique community of architects.
The LEAF Review intelligently captures the opinions, ideas and philosophies of Europe’s foremost architects in a diverse mix of articles, case studies, interviews and profiles.
Woodfit Acoustics was recently featured in THE LEAF REVIEW see pdf.
PRINCESS NOURA UNIVERSITY
Woodfit Acoustics wins contract for Princess Noura University in Saudi Arabia
Woodfit Acoustics on 2nd November 2010 secured a contract as part of the construction of Princess Noura University in Saudi Arabia. Princess Noura University is an all women’s campus initiated by King Abdullah which on completion will have the capacity to educate 30,000 students per annum. This is the largest construction project in the world with 125,000 people working daily on the site.
WEXFORD OPERA HOUSE
Main auditorium; 769 seats in opera format and 853 seats up to proscenium.
Second Space: up to 170 seats, retractable, or flat floor use.
Wexford Opera House is Ireland’s first fully-specified purpose-built opera house. The sound is intimate and clear with well-balanced reverberation that embellishes opera performance supporting both voice and orchestra.
Media reports
“Ireland has had to wait a long time for its first proper opera house, but patience has been rewarded: the beautiful building now shoehorned into Wexford’s tight little streets is an architectural triumph… the acoustic and sight lines are well neigh perfect.”
The Independent: Michael Church, 21st October 2008
“Pass through the same modest back-street entrance and you emerge into a shiny state-of-the-art Opera House, a 780-seater mini Glyndebourne, its elegant horseshoe swarthed in sleek American walnut. All for a mere 33 million Euro (£27m) with crystal clear acoustic, spacious stage, comfortable seats, good sight-lines throughout the house, and local”
The Observer : Anthony Holden, 26th October 2008
“The auditorium is a fantastic achievement. There are some cosmetic similarities to Hopkins’ Glyndebourne but I find Wexford much more satisfying. At Glyndebourne the auditoirum constantly reminds you that it is a kit of parts, but Wexford is a taut and modelled skin of timber, which distorts and shifts, but is always whole. The steeper lines of the balconies, ending beautifully as they turn toward the stage, are fabulous from every angle especially the stage.”
Architects Journal : Kieran Long 16th October 2008
