The Stavanger Concert Hall houses an enormous and institutionally complex program of a world class orchestral music hall with a multipurpose hall for opera and electro-acoustical productions. These two main volumetric elements are situated along the extended boardwalk nested into an artificial landscape where practice rooms can open and engage the natural environment as a spontaneous landscape of rehearsal. The design strategy implicitly recognizes the importance of the institution opening up to the urban life at the waters edge and elevation the presence of this project to that of a civic icon in the collective landscape. The plaza level circulation allows for the continuity of civic life to pass through the interior of concert hall’s expansive lobby and re-emerge in the recital landscape as an extension and analogy of Stavanger’s urban life. The orchestral hall deploys the idea of acoustical variability with an expanding roof plane that reciprocally introduces natural light into the space of the music chamber; hence a direct sensory relationship between acoustic depth and the modulation of natural light is established in the main music chamber.