The Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, Palace of Arts, Budapest, Hungry

The Bartók National Concert Hall is located in the Palace of Arts, in Budapest which opened in March 2005, and provides local and visiting performing arts groups with a first-class concert hall of 1800 seats. The Palace of Arts is part of the Millennium Center Development complex, and also features a small theater and museum (which was developed for the Hungarian government as a Public Private Partnership). The Concert Hall is home to the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and regularly hosts concerts by the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

A key element in Artec-designed auditoria is adjustability. The Artec-designed adjustable seating elements, adjustable acoustics systems, rigging, and production lighting systems, are integral aspects of the Bartók National Concert Hall. They provide flexibility of support for a large range of performance types.

The orchestra platform of the concert hall is designed to accommodate music ensembles of all sizes. The system is composed of three platform lifts; each forestage lift can accommodate mobile seating-wagons with permanently mounted, audience seats. The system used to adjust the acoustics environment in the concert hall is composed of four elements: the acoustic canopy, the acoustics control chamber with its motorized doors, and the sound-absorptive acoustic curtains and acoustic banners. These four motorized systems are controlled by the prime machinery control system and are complemented by a number of manually adjustable surfaces in the hall.

Artec provided Design and Planning services covering Auditorium Design, Facility Planning, Specialized Performance Equipment Systems Design (except Sound & Communication Systems) and Background Noise and Vibration Control. The architect of the Palace of Arts was Gabor Zoboki of Zoboki Demeter & Associates Architects.