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Xian has been one of China's most important capital cities for 13 dynasties. With a history going back more than 3,100 years Xian is now reasserting its position as an educational, industrial and cultural centre.

The innovative 2,400 seat concert hall wraps the audience around the stage and features suspended balconies inside a larger volume, attached to the building by access passages, allowing sound to circulate completely around them. 

Marshall Day Acoustics teamed with 2008 Pritzker Prize winning French Architect, Jean Nouvel, were selected ahead of 97 international design teams in

Marshall Day Acoustics was selected for this project as part of a rigorous tendering process and the result is a beautiful asymmetrical auditorium design with the acclaimed London based architect, Zaha Hadid, who won the design competition in 2003.

On this project, Marshall Day Acoustics was engaged as a design consultant by Leighton Contractors, a member of the Civic Nexus consortium.

Helios, a 37.5 metre (123ft) long luxury yacht built by Fitzroy Yachts of New Plymouth, was commissioned with stringent noise level requirements.

In a marine acoustics market saturated by over specification of noise control treatment using expensive proprietary products, Marshall Day Acoustics were engaged to bring our innovative design experience to the task.

The Christchurch Town Hall is closely bound up with advances in understanding concert hall acoustics in the second half of the 20th century.