Eric Herron with Sixth River architects says, "It's incredibly frightening to try and redesign something that was so great. People have memories from here for years. Myself, I've been here 20 to 30 times watching great shows here."
The venue is currently being designed by Sixth River architects but they'll get a little help from U.T. architecture students through a competition.
Herron says, 'It's something that's a lot more interesting than some of the stuff they work on. You know a music venue, obviously, it's exciting, it's fun. They've probably all been to the Backyard and they have an opportunity to have say in what we build here.'
UT architecture student Emily Teng says, "It's very hands on collaborative. It's not all textbooks. It's making something. Hopefully, it will influence and be built one day."
More than 65 teams of students are competing and walked through both sites. Design entries will not only try to recreate the same "feel" of the old Backyard, but it will also focus on eco friendly initiatives,integrate the natural environment with the end goal to be "the greenest music venue in the world."
Backyard owner, Tim O'Connor says, "What's more important is that we take the environment and take it into consideration with anything we're doing. That's what we're trying to do over there."
By Stephanie Serna THE LATEST ECO DESIGN NEWS, FROM RE-EXIST
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