Summary:

The Rexall Centre, Toronto, is a fully functional tennis facility operated by Tennis Canada. This venue regularly seats 11,000, and is used to host the Rogers Cup Tennis Tournament. The stadium was selected as the venue for the BlackCreek Summer Music Festival and required extensive acoustic analysis and treatment in order to be functional as an open air amphitheatre.

Solution:

The venue is an amphitheatre of classic Greek or Roman size and shape. The seating provides each patron with an uninterrupted view of the court. Furthermore, it is remarkably intimate, with most of the seating within a 50m radius of the court level stage with the furthest seat being 72m away. The challenge became to create the same level of intimacy through the acoustic treatment of the space.