By Delle Willett
Last fall, the San Diego Symphony Board of Directors unanimously voted to begin construction on Bayside Performance Park.
With the first concerts scheduled for summer 2020 (this could change with the coronavirus) the new venue, now known as The Shell, will provide San Diego with a world-class destination that serves year-round as an event space and landmark waterfront attraction.
Located in the Port of San Diego’s Embarcadero Marina Park South on San Diego Bay, the new upgraded park and venue will feature a permanent, highly innovative, architecturally striking and acoustically superior 13,000-square-foot outdoor stage that will allow the Symphony to present a wider variety of musical presentations and enrich the patron experience with improved sightlines, an expanded concession area and permanent restrooms.
The Shell is the creation of an international, award-winning team, including Burton Landscape Architecture Studio of Solana Beach. Burton Studio created the plans that will introduce refined site detailing and regionally appropriate landscaping to frame the venue and provide a cohesive visitor experience throughout the embarcadero Marina Park South.
Matthew MacLeod, a partner at Burton Studio, said the team enjoyed the process of creating a unique family of details for this project.
“We worked hard to incorporate the themes of music and composition into the park’s new physical identity,“ he said. “These concepts provide a natural organizational framework for the space while also distinguishing it as a unique open-air venue on the west coast.”
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