National Sawdust is a venue for young musicians and composers of new classical, jazz and experimental music to perform and record their work. It houses an acoustically-driven chamber music hall consisting of a double-height space with surrounding balcony that holds up to 300 patrons. Conceived as a jewel set within the brick envelope of a former sawdust factory, the venue seeks to combine the historic European concert hall model with the late bare-bones black-box model, where the crafted beauty and performative ornament of the former meets the experimental programming and roughness of the latter.

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Design » Alexander Pincus + Bureau V
Client » National Sawdust
Program » Concert Hall
Construction » Adaptive Reuse
Location » Brooklyn, NY
Budget » 16 million
Status » Complete
Year » 2009 - 2015