Abstract
The new Metro Toronto Convention Center Hall is a one‐balcony auditorium having a seating capacity of 1350. The space is designed as a stage house multipurpose auditorium. Excellent acoustical environments are achieved for functions such as: lectures, motion pictures, speech, and music drama and music recital. The paper describes how final architectural forms and materials of the stage and the house, seating configuration and type, as well as surface size, shaping, and orientation were influenced by row‐to‐row sightlines, distance between the audience and stage, eccentricity angle, vertical viewing angle, under balcony isolation, safety, circulation, and the acoustical requirements: clarity/intelligibility, balanced and uniform sound projection, cohesion for performers on stage, freedom of echoes, strong envelopmental sound, reverberant sound level, and decay rate.
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