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Natural Appeal
Linde Center at Tanglewood Wins 2021 Interior Architecture Award
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) recently recognized seven projects
across the U.S. with its 2021 Interior Architecture Awards, including the Tanglewood Linde Center for Music and Learning in Lenox.
The 2021 Interior Architecture program celebrates the most inno- vative interior spaces. A five-mem- ber jury evaluates entries based on design achievement, including sense of place and purpose, ecol- ogy and environmental sustain- ability, and history.
Designed by William Rawn Associates, Architects Inc. in Bos- ton, the Linde Center for Music and Learning at Tanglewood, the Bos- ton Symphony Orchestra’s long- time summer home in the Berk- shires, was envisioned as a place where new ideas around music could commingle with cultural enrichment, the AIA’s announce- ment explained.
“Against the backdrop of a
captivating landscape, the center
is a cluster of four new buildings
that help bridge Tanglewood’s
acclaimed music festival and its
summer music academy, which
provides no-cost fellowships to some of Amer- ica’s most talented professional musicians. Tanglewood has represented human wellness through its quest to enrich the soul through music and develop meaningful connections with the landscape.”
Connected by a serpentine pathway, the cen- ter’s four buildings house Tanglewood’s educa- tional programs, recitals, and lectures, including the Tanglewood Learning Insti-
30 years of work at Tanglewood, beginning with the adjacent Seiji Ozawa Hall, continued to build upon a palette of rustic and informal materials.
In a first, all four of the center’s buildings are air-conditioned, providing Tanglewood with a facility fit for year-round operation. However, all of the studio and café spaces were designed to be ventilated naturally, with operable glass walls and actuator-operated windows that allow them to harness natural air flow.
center embodying the ghosts of past great art- ists, musicians, and ideas still roaming this lush landscape.”
BSO trustee Joyce Linde, whose family’s gener- osity is honored in the naming of the Linde Cen- ter, stressed during the ceremony how the facil- ity continued Tanglewood’s goal of bringing all people together though music and learning.
“Whether it’s the Tanglewood Music Center, Tanglewood Learning Institute, Boston Sym-
 tute. The program provides clas- sical-music patrons access to top-tier musicians as they work to hone their craft. Through its programs, the center aims to immerse audiences deeper into the process of creating music.
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center is a cluster of four new buildings that help bridge Tanglewood’s acclaimed music festival and its summer music academy, which provides no-cost fellowships to some of America’s most talented professional musicians. Tanglewood has represented human wellness through its quest to enrich the soul through music and develop meaningful connections with the landscape.”
phony Orchestra events, or those offered by others,” she said, “it is our hope that the Linde Center becomes a com- munity resource to unite people through shared experiences and that it amplifies a core value of the Tanglewood experi- ence: that is that Tanglewood is for everyone.”
Other receipients of the AIA’s 2021 Interior Architecture Awards include an Historic Shipyard Reincarnation in San Francisco (Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects), the Coca- Cola Stage at the Alliance The- ater in Atlanta (Trahan Archi- tects/APAC), CO-OP Ramen in
Against the backdrop of a captivating landscape, the
   “The center is positioned
as a vital music incubator
through its scale, flexibility, and distance-learning capabilities,”
the AIA noted. “Through it, the
orchestra has experimented
with new concepts and tech-
nologies, something that has
proven to be particularly impor-
tant as the COVID-19 pandemic
has forced cultural institutions
to move the majority of their offerings online.”
During a ribbon-cutting ceremony in 2019, Ed Barker, BSO principal bass, said the facil-
ity was a perfect extension of the goals set for Tanglewood by its founder, Serge Koussevitzky. “This new center is a place about connections. I tend to think of it as not just a place populated with those of the here and now, but a cultural
Bentonville, Ark. (Marlon Blackwell Architects), High Desert Retreat in Mountain Center, Calif. (Aidlin Darling Design), Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences Middle School in Seattle (LMN Architects), and Vilcek Foundation in New York City (Architecture Research Office). u
     To fit into the scale of Tanglewood, the team organized the buildings around a 100-foot-tall oak. Like all Tanglewood buildings, the new additions are marked with a sense of openness, and all open broadly onto the landscape. The design team, based on its history of more than
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