Whenever you agree or disagree with nytimes you have to admit their interactive article is always a joy to play around with.<p>But as the article points towards that architecture can have a huge role in say sound is interesting, since you think most of us tend to just solve it by having louder or specially designed speakers.<p>I know there's similar architectual designs from the past where light plays a similarly important role.
I distinctly remember walking around the area where Notre Dame is in Paris and hearing a faint sound I recognised on the breeze. The closer I got the more it gave me chills. The sound of the organ presumably (I'd like to think) being played by Olivier Latry and of course I recognised the sound from his recordings of Messiaen[0]. Not Messiaen that day but those compositions being played by Latry on that organ... that sound.. it just takes me somewhere else.<p>0. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDnaDdbldz8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDnaDdbldz8</a>