Numerous lovers of music and architecture asked for it to be restored as a concert space, but this was not technically or financially feasible.

There were benefits, too, on the other side of the footlights (figuratively speaking - this was a concert space, not an opera house).

Offices, three galleries - one doubling as concert space - and a jazz cafe now occupy the first floor.

Some concert spaces may hold 200 people, or 40, yet some hold about two dozen.

But it will also join another, less celebrated fraternity, that of the especially odd outdoor concert space.

He rejected the suggestion that he wanted more concert space, as some critical parishioners have said.

Aside from the main (high-tech) concert space, there's also an art gallery and bar-cafe, open during the day.

Once the concert space was secured, local worthies were happy to paste up the program and pass the word around.

A generic shoebox of a concert space would long since have been built.

But the auditorium was also designed to adapt for musical use, providing the first new concert space at Lincoln Center in more than 20 years.