K & A Ravinia Festival Pavilion

 

Client: Chicago Symphony
Contractor: Schal Bovis Construction
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Engineer: Juri Komendant
Designer: Daniel Cummings
Location: Ravinia, IL

K&A Scope of Work: Fabrication of acoustical panels.

Project Description: Acoustically reflective, advanced composite wall panels produced superior sound quality at the Chicago Symphony’s Ravinia Festival facility. These 4.2 lb/ft2 panels are composed of biaxially oriented strand glass reinforcement by Knytex in isothalic polyester resin by Ashland Chemical. The panels include PVC closed cell structural sandwich foam core by Divinycell.

Press: Isopolyester News, June 1998. "Sound Solution Found in Isopolyester Composite"

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