El Club, Detroit

El Club was named one of Rolling Stone‘s Ten Best Live Music Venues in America in 2018. The acoustic design balances the bass-retaining existing concrete structure with deep Basotect G foam wedges reclaimed from Anri Sala’s Answer Me at the New Museum in NYC in 2016. The wedges increase in density near the ceiling/wall intersection, where they are most efficient. The plaster-coated walls and exposed joists add a modicum of incidental diffusion. The audio system is by d&b audiotechnik and the architects are LAAVU.