It consists of clusters of pastel-colored cabins, 117 in all, surrounding the auditorium and its ancillary chapel, bookstore and gazebo.
Serpentine lobbies surround the auditorium, which is set diagonally to the building site.
At Hammersmith, artistic director Sean Holmes took advantage of a major rebuild surrounding the unaffected auditorium to instigate a "Secret Theatre" season of new work and classics (including a deliberately antiseptic, un-American A Streetcar Named Desire led by disabled actress Nadia Albina as Blanche du Bois) with a company of 20 actors.
The tents surround the Great Auditorium, home to religious services, cultural events and entertainment.
In the continuing quest for an Avery Fisher Hall with better acoustics, the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center are experimenting with a stage that would put the orchestra in the center of the auditorium surrounded by seats.
And in the back of the building, in a small auditorium, surrounded by wood chairs from the pre-renovated stadium, sat Berra, who looked shorter and lighter than his 5-foot-7 ½, 185-pound listing in the Baseball Encyclopedia.
I was there with a range of National Indigenous Television (NITV) faces and colleagues, sitting in Melbourne's Crown Casino auditorium surrounded by the Australian media industry's who's who.
One hundred fourteen of them will surround the Great Auditorium, a cross-adorned wooden Neo-Gothic structure roughly the size of a football field, which was erected as a preaching station by the Camp Meeting Association, the Methodist retreat group that founded this town back in 1869.
There are smaller Neoprene pads between the sides of the auditorium and the surrounding walls, a distance of two to three inches, to stabilize the inner structure.
The egg being the auditorium, acoustically isolated from the surrounding public and support areas.
