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Symphony Center was a proposed concert hall in Atlanta, Georgia that would have been the new home of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The site for the new structure was to be in Midtown on 14th Street just south of the current Symphony Hall in the Woodruff Arts Center. Architect Santiago Calatrava was selected to design the facility and delivered a design that would serve as a "postcard" for the city. The design was unveiled in 2005, but was cancelled in 2008 due to funding issues. The ASO now plans to build a new hall at the Woodruff Arts Center, at 15th Street and Peachtree Street. [1]

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In May 2014, the Woodruff Arts Center sold the property to a group of New York City-based developers, [2] and it is currently the site of the Opus Place development.

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References

  1. Pousner, Howard. "New ASO concert hall design won't come from Calatrava". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution . Cox Enterprises . Retrieved January 26, 2012.[ dead link ]
  2. Green, Josh (June 26, 2014). "Midtown Mega-Project Moves Forward, Called 'Doable'". Curbed Atlanta . Vox Media . Retrieved September 1, 2020.

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