He has been striving to create a concert hall that has perfect sound. Harris is the sound design master behind some of the most famous concert halls in the world, including Royal Opera House London, Glyndebourne Opera House, City Recital Hall Sydney, and Copenhagen and Oslo's Opera Houses. "There are quite a few halls which look beautiful but they sound a little disappointing," he told CNN. Based in Winchester, some 60 miles from London, he knows the capital's concert hall's intimately. Harris applied this principle when he worked for Arup to design the acoustics for London's Kings Place Concert Hall, which features a rectangular main hall.

Source: CNN March 27, 2017 10:41 UTC