Royce Hall
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The Royce Hall is the oldest building at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) . It was built from 1926 to 1929 and is one of the first four buildings on UCLA's Westwood campus. Today it is the most famous building and represents UCLA. Royce Hall has two bell towers, the bells of which ring every hour.
history
James Edward Allison and his brother David Clark Allison designed Royce Hall in the early 1920s. Construction of the Royce Hall was completed in 1929. At the time, UCLA consisted of four buildings: Royce Hall, Powell Library, the Humanities Building, and Haines Hall. Now Royce Hall is the most famous building. Royce Hall was named in honor of Josiah Royce .
In 1930, Duke Ellington , Frank Sinatra , Ella Fitzgerald and the Philharmonic Orchestra from New York played in the concert hall of Royce Hall .
In January 1994, the Northridge earthquake struck southern California. The earthquake had a magnitude of 6.7 on the Richter scale and damaged the building. The Royce Hall renovation cost $ 70.6 million. The renovation began in March 1994 and was completed in December 1997. The concert hall now has a size of 17,795.3 m².
architecture
Royce Hall was built in neo-Romanesque style. The architects got their inspiration for the building from the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan. In the center of Royce Hall is a large concert hall that can seat almost 2,000 people. Seminar rooms, a reading room and numerous offices enclose this concert hall. In the basement there is, among other things, another rehearsal stage.
use
The “UCLA Live” group is responsible for engaging actors from different cultures. Artists, composers, essayists and writers will perform. The audience sits relatively close to the stage. UCLA students can attend the performances for a special price.
Because of the good acoustics, the Royce Hall auditorium has also been used for recordings by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . Royce Hall is used as a background in numerous film and television productions, for example in an episode of Simon & Simon .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 4 ′ 22 " N , 118 ° 26 ′ 31" W.