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26-570: The Rockhampton Music Bowl is an outdoor sound shell music venue in Rockhampton, Queensland , Australia , situated in the suburb of Parkhurst . The venue was officially opened by Rockhampton City Council alderman , Dr Terence Francis Moore on 9 March 1985. Throughout its history, the Rockhampton Music Bowl has hosted numerous concerts, festivals and local events. Notable international and Australian musicians who have performed at

52-525: A 1928 prototype by Lloyd Wright , has been rebuilt several times with the present structure being the fifth on that site. Rectangular pavilions with enclosed shell and stage like the example pictured in Boise, Idaho were in use after 1900. These proved very effective as outdoor performing venues, and many are still in use. This article about a building or structure type is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This stagecraft related article

78-586: A precursor to his father's more famous "textile block" houses in the Los Angeles area. From 1923 through 1926, the younger Wright was drawn into the realization of these four houses, and the ambitious attempt to evolve the "textile block" system into a patented construction technique. The first was the 1923 Millard House in Pasadena, California where Lloyd designed the grounds, and contributed an adjacent studio building in 1926. Lloyd served as construction manager for

104-471: A residence for himself, made of two units – one for living and one for work. The 2,413 square feet (224.17 square meter) of living space has an upstairs residence with a living room, a fireplace and wooden floors. Interlocking blocks with a stylized Joshua tree design overlay some of the windows. The Great Depression stalled Wright's firm as he was reaching his artistic and professional peak. As for many architects, remodellings, rather than total designs, were

130-523: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lloyd Wright Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. (March 31, 1890 – May 31, 1978), commonly known as Lloyd Wright , was an American architect , active primarily in Los Angeles and Southern California . He was a landscape architect for various Los Angeles projects (1922–1924), provided the shells for the Hollywood Bowl (1926–1928), and produced

156-536: Is listed in the National Register of Historic Places . When the trees that surround the Chapel grow up, they will become the framework, become a part of the tree forms and branches that inevitably arise from the growing trees adjacent to it. I used the glass so that the natural growth, the sky, and sea beyond became the definition of their environment. This is done to give the congregation protection in services and at

182-674: Is the Wayfarers Chapel , also known as "The Glass Church", an indoor/outdoor structure made almost entirely of glass and built in 1951 for the Swedenborgian church, overlooking the Pacific Ocean on the Palos Verdes Peninsula . The site planning and planting design express his talent and experience as a landscape architect. He had an embracing grove of Redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ) planted to achieve this. The Wayfarer's Chapel

208-696: The Pilbeam Theatre , the Rockhampton Showgrounds , Callaghan Park or local pubs and clubs. During the closure, the annual Carols by Candlelight was held at the Rockhampton Heritage Village, Victoria Park and the Pilbeam Theatre. In 2014, public debate and campaigning from local media personalities and community leaders to reopen the Rockhampton Music Bowl increased. Rockhampton Regional Council eventually relented and withdrew

234-643: The Swedenborg Memorial Chapel (or Wayfarers Chapel) at Rancho Palos Verdes, California (1946–1971). His name is frequently confused with that of his more famous father, Frank Lloyd Wright . Born on March 31, 1890, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. was the eldest son of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Wright's first wife, Catherine Lee "Kitty" Tobin Wright. He spent his early years at his father's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois . Wright briefly attended

260-554: The University of Wisconsin in Madison for two years of coursework in agronomy and engineering before traveling extensively through Europe after his father moved to Italy in 1909. In 1911, Wright joined the landscape firm Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston, Massachusetts , where he specialized in botany and horticulture . Wright would be later sent to San Diego, California to assist with

286-558: The Allied Architects group, was considered unacceptable both visually and acoustically. Wright's 1927 shell had a pyramidal shape and a design reminiscent of southwest Native American architecture. According to Charles Willard Moore , it was built from leftovers from the Robin Hood production. Its acoustics generally were regarded as the best of any shell in Bowl history. But its appearance

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312-418: The Rockhampton Music Bowl from the market and announced that the 2015 Carols by Candlelight would be the first event to be held after it was reopened. Since re-opening, the Rockhampton Music Bowl is again being used for various local events, concerts and music festivals including the 2016 "Rocky Rocks" music festival. Another concert, " Sea FM Live " was also scheduled for 2016, but the tour promoters cancelled

338-534: The Rockhampton Music Bowl include Cliff Richard , John Denver , Stevie Wonder , Midnight Oil , INXS , Hunters And Collectors , Savage Garden , Silverchair , Dwight Yoakam , Powderfinger , Gyroscope , The Butterfly Effect , Youth Group , Dead Letter Circus , Operator Please , Evermore , The Potbelleez , Zoe Badwi , TV Rock , Bag Raiders , Bombs Away , Emily Scott , Seany B , Timmy Trumpet , Daryl Braithwaite , Mental As Anything , Russell Morris , Richard Clapton and 1927 . The venue has also been

364-626: The actress and artist Elaine Hyman (known as Kyra Markham ). They divorced in 1925. The following year, Wright married Helen Taggart, the daughter of a client (Her then seven-year-old son, Rupert Pole , would later marry Anaïs Nin ). In 1929, Lloyd and Helen became the parents of architect Eric Lloyd Wright , who has consulted on the restoration of many of his father's and grandfather's works, as well as being independently creative. Lloyd Wright died in 1978 in Santa Monica, California. A comprehensive monograph on Lloyd Wright and his work, "Lloyd Wright,

390-558: The event soon after announcing it due to "unforeseeable circumstances". Shell (theater) Often shells are designed to be removable, either rolling away on wheels or lifting into a flyspace . Shells are most commonly used for orchestras, bands and choirs, although they can also be used in any application that requires passive sound amplification. Shells are generally made of hard materials because they are designed to absorb as little sound as possible. Acoustical shells were developed to focus sound outward in one direction as opposed to

416-509: The landscape design of the 1915 Panama–California Exposition with architects Bertram Goodhue , Carleton Winslow , and Irving Gill . The exposition's principal buildings and gardens still remain in Balboa Park . Landscape design led him to work with Los Angeles architect William J. Dodd , and in San Diego with Irving Gill, the latter another master architect and mentor to his design career. In

442-465: The mid- to late 1920s. Lloyd Wright's first residential commission, the Taggart House was built for the mother of his second wife, Helen Taggart, a registered Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument located next to the city's Griffith Park . Another significant project was the hillside house for the manager of film star Ramón Novarro , and then a renovation and enlargement when Novarro himself acquired

468-685: The mid-1910s, Wright formed a landscape partnership with Paul Thiene , a colleague from the Olmsted firm, before opening his own practice in 1916. Beginning in 1919, his father, working in Japan on the Imperial Hotel , delegated some of the responsibilities to him and architect Rudolf Schindler to supervise construction of the Hollyhock House , while Wright worked on the Imperial Hotel in Japan. The house

494-626: The other three: the Storer House (1923), the Samuel Freeman House (1923), and the Ennis House (1924). By all accounts Lloyd's work was difficult as he shuttled back and forth between sites, communicating with his father via telegram, and receiving little constructive support from Taliesin . Wright designed and built a number of houses in the Hollywood and Los Feliz districts of Los Angeles in

520-484: The residence. The dramatic and theatrical Mayan -inspired John Sowden House has become his most iconic structure and is usually regarded as his best work. He also designed and built his own home with a ground floor studio and second floor residence, using concrete blocks, in West Hollywood in the 1920s. He also designed the second and third band shells at the Hollywood Bowl . The original 1926 shell, designed by

546-531: The same time to create the sense of outer as well as inner space. Among his last projects was the 1963 John P. Bowler house, known as the "Bird of Paradise" House, in Rancho Palos Verdes using blue fiberglass for projecting roof fins, and the master plan and building designs for a 1970 shopping center in Huntington Beach , at Warner and Springdale streets south of Long Beach . In 1922 Wright married

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572-564: The scope of 1930s work. His post-war designs became more expressionistic and less aligned to previous modernist architectural themes. He also promoted the word Usonia . The largest collection of Lloyd Wright buildings in the United States was built in phases (1946–1957) for the Institute of Mentalphysics , located on a large Mojave Desert site next to the town of Joshua Tree , to the east of Joshua Tree National Park . His best-known project

598-418: The traditional home of the city's popular Carols by Candlelight family event, held every December. Rockhampton Regional Council decided to close the Rockhampton Music Bowl in 2011 and put it up for sale, citing maintenance costs, financial viability and lack of usage. The council had also long held the view that the venue was unpopular with visiting musicians who preferred to perform at other venues such as

624-411: The ″sound in the round″ diffused from all sides of the open gazebo bandstand. In the United States they were built in large city parks and amusement parks as bands increased in size. Free−standing outdoor shells in a variety of styles were built starting in the 1890s. Professional architects were often employed to design them with varying degrees of acoustical success. The Hollywood Bowl shell, based on

650-605: Was commissioned by the oil heiress and philanthropist Aline Barnsdall . Wright began his independent career in 1920. In 1922, he was a production designer at Paramount Studios , responsible for the extensive castle and 12th-century village sets for the Douglas Fairbanks version of Robin Hood . In December 1922, Wright prepared plans for the Henry Bollman House in Hollywood that included a repeated pattern of concrete blocks,

676-413: Was considered too avant-garde, or perhaps only ugly, and it was demolished at the end of the season. His 1928 wooden shell had the now-familiar concentric ring motif, covered a 120-degree arc, and was designed to be easily dismantled. Unfortunately it was neglected and ruined by water damage, making way for the 1929 Allied Architects shell, which stood until the end of the 2003 season. In 1927, Wright built

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