The Score | Tanglewood to Add Four-Building Complex

Tanglewood, the Berkshire Hills summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937, is about to get bigger. Following an August 18 groundbreaking ceremony, construction started on a new $30 million, four-building complex that will support performance and rehearsal activities of the Tanglewood Music Center and be the focal point of a new initiative, the Tanglewood Learning Institute, offering wide-ranging education and enrichment programs. Scheduled to open in summer 2019, the complex is designed by Boston-based William Rawn Associates, which also designed Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall in 1994. Kirkegaard Associates, the acousticians for Ozawa Hall, will serve as the project’s acousticians. The largest building of the complex will provide state-of-the-art space for rehearsals and concerts, multi-media education and lecture programs, and social and dining spots. Additional buildings include a 150-seat cafe, designed in part as a hub for visitors, TMC Fellows and faculty, and TLI participants, and two smaller studios with additional space for rehearsal, performance, educational, and social activities. The complex will be climate-controlled for use by the Berkshire community in the off-season.