Philharmonie, Luxembourg

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Industries

Musical instruments, Concert halls and organs

Products

Condair DL

Technologies

Hybrid

Humidity ensures perfect acoustics at Philharmonie Luxembourg

Delivering outstanding acoustics and visitor comfort requires a precisely controlled indoor climate. In the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Condair’s Dual hybrid humidification system helps maintain the ideal atmosphere for both performers and audiences.

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Perfect acoustics meet perfect air: Condair at the Philharmonie Luxembourg

The Philharmonie, opened in 2005, has a prestigious location on a hill in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The extravagant concert hall, designed by the highly regarded French architect Christian de Portzamparc, has three completely different halls on a total floor space of 20,000 square metres:

The large concert hall Salle de Concerts Grande-Duchesse Joséphine-Charlotte for an audience of up to 1,500 and 120 musicians; in the basement, the small Expace Découverte hall with 120 seats and the chamber music hall Salle de Musique de Chambre adjacent to the main building, accommodating an audience of 302. In terms of layout, the white main building is shaped like an eye; the steel and glass facade is visually dominated by 823 white columns, each 20 metres high and 30 centimetres in diameter. Condair Dual hybrid humidifiers ensure great air quality and comfortable humidity.

Condair DL

The Condair DL is the next generation of the Condair Dual2—the world's most successful system for adiabatic humidification. Its hygienic credentials have proven successful in practice and were verified and certified by independent organisations with public responsibility.

Hybrid humidification relies exclusively on the advantages of atomisation and evaporation. This results in the sustainable resolution of key problems which can emerge when these technologies are used in isolation. The humidification system is therefore the first choice in terms of hygiene, energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Condair DL

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Projects and references

Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is probably the best-known concert building in Great Britain. Aronud two million guests a year enjoy acoustic cultural delights ranging from rock to classical music. Condair steam humidifiers ensure a perfect humidity in the organ chamber so that wooden parts maintain their integrity and shape, and move over each other perfectly, as they were designed to do.

Royal Albert Hall

Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, Australia, identified as one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings. Though its name suggests a single venue, the building comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest of performing arts centres &ndash hosting well over 1,500 performances annually, attended by more than 1.2 million people.Condair evaporative and steam humidifiers are helping to maintain the ideal indoor environment, to preserve the integrity of the wooden interiors, the musical instruments, the vocal performance of the artists and the health of the public.

Opera House, Sydney - Australia

Steinway & Sons showroom, UK

Steinway & Sons has been renowned for producing the finest pianos since 1853. Passion and commitment, perfection and quality, reliability and “ of course “ an inimitable sound are just some of the characteristics people all over the world associate with these high-quality instruments. The impressive showroom in London Marylebone was recently refurbished. Condair™s steam humidifiers are playing a vital role in maintaining the exceptional craftsmanship involved in the production of Steinway™s famous pianos.

Condair in tune with Steinway

Apple Campus, Cupertino

Cupertino, California, located close to San Francisco, is home to the headquarters of American technology company Apple. The building was designed by British architect Norman Foster, who realized the idea of an oversized ring in connection with the former Apple Campus at Infinite Loop No. 1 in Cupertino.

At a diameter of almost half a kilometre (461 m), the building complex offers a gigantic usable area of 260,000 m2 and space for 12,000 employees. The ring contains a 130,000 m2 park with rest areas, cafés, sports facilities and a rainbow-coloured festival stage, which was inaugurated by Lady Gaga in 2018. Powered entirely by renewable energy,
the building features a 17-megawatt rooftop solar energy system and energy-efficient evaporative cooling from Condair.

Apple Park, Cupertino - USA