Berlin's Broadcasting Home

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 42, 1 May 1931, Page 31

Berlin's Broadcasting Home

New Studio ‘Design iN FEATURE of the partially. come pleted Berlin. Broadcasting House is the fact that from each of the three hails, each capable of seating over one thousand people, concerts will be relayed regularly. Up to the present, only one of the three halls has been completed, and in this experiments are being carried out

to determine the manner in which the other two will be finally equipped. The principle upon which the designers are basing their plans greatly differs from that usually employed. There are no sliding walls or screens, but three sides of the hall are padded with compressed fibre, and the fourth, in the immediate background of the orchestra, is of marble. _ The sound is thus reflected back into the. hall, and the compressed fibre of the other three walls prevents an echo. To regulate the acoustics, the fibre panels may be opened or closed at will, ‘Built into the marble wall at the back is a vast organ, which is invisible.