Building Example 8 - Holland Performing Arts

Holland Performing Arts

Architect- A Collaboration between HDR and Polshek Partnership Architects

Location - Omaha, Nebraska

Size - 175,000 square feet

Completion date - 

The first thing you notice about Omaha’s new Holland Center for the Performing Arts is that you can see right through it. Walls of glass along the ground floor lobby help to enliven the Gene Leahy Mall, a flowing civic park across the street developed in part by Lawrence Halprin in the 1970s to renew the city and reconnect it with the river. 

 

 

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Building Example 7 - Broad Stage

Broad Stage

Architect - Renzo Zecchetto Architects 

Location - Santa Monica, California

Size - 32,000 square feet

Completion Date - August 2008

Owned by Santa Monica College but serving both school and community audiences, the theater complex juggles a range of tasks. On one level, it provides remarkably sophisticated theater-arts facilities for a community college. On another, it stands as a symbol of a blossoming cultural scene in Santa Monica (and the “growing Balkanization of the L.A. area” due to traffic congestion, as Christopher Hawthorne noted in the Los Angeles Times on October 11)

 

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Building Example 6 - Royal Playhouse

Royal Playhouse

Architect - Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects

Location - Copenhagen, Denmark

Size - 226,000 square feet

Completion date - February 2008

The playhouse is an abstract composition of the basic elements of theater, recombined in a striking and unexpected way. The massive cube of the fly tower floats above the horizontal glass plane of the rehearsal and dressing room level that in turn appears to levitate miraculously above the tall open foyer.

 

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Building Example 5

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Architect - Bing Thom Architects

Location - Washington, D.C.

Size - 200,000 square feet

Completion date - October 2010

It can definitely be said that the 200,000-square-foot Arena Stage, just renovated and expanded by Bing Thom Architects, improves upon what was found. Thom’s swallowing up the lumpy late Modernist theaters in a glass case may have concerned some preservationists, but it helped tie the two together on this triangular site in the southwest part of the city — initially part of an urban renewal area that may be further uplifted by a waterfront redevelopment plan. Yet the overall scheme does deploy some quixotic design gestures that ignore certain notions of scale, proportion, and the use of a consistent architectural vocabulary. 

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Building Example 4

Columbia College Chicago Media Production Center Architects - Studio Gang Architects
Location - 1600 South Stare Street, Chicago, USA
Size - 36,000 Square feet

The project makes behind-the-scenes aspects of the film making process visible in order to use the building as a teaching tool. It also demonstrates technical achievement and sustainability.
-Unique contextual and programmatic solutions: Walls, roofs and floors are designed to reduce vibration for film studios from nearby elevated trains.
-Creative educational program solutions: The design enables students to see into teaching spaces to learn about all aspects of film making. The production program is sized to allow full class participation inside these typically small back-of-house spaces.

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Building Example 3

Vakko Fashion and Power Media Center

Architect - REX

Location - Istanbul Turkey

Sometimes, form follows fortuity. In the 1990s, Rem Koolhaas developed an idea for a private house near Rotterdam; when that project was shelved, he adapted the concept to a much larger building — a concert hall in Porto, Portugal.Now, Joshua Prince-Ramus, who had been a partner with Koolhaas at OMA, has pulled off an even more audacious “reuse” of a canceled project. Asked to design a fashion-company headquarters in Istanbul, on an impossibly tight schedule, Prince-Ramus made use of plans he had originally developed for the Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.  

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Building Example 2

62 Center for Theater and Dance
Architect - William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc.

Location - Williams College, Williamstown, MA

Size - 126,000 Square feet

The ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance named, at Allen’s request, for his graduating class, was designed by William Rawn, FAIA, whose Boston-based firm conceived the much-acclaimed Seiji Ozawa Hall in Tanglewood, Massachusetts (1994).
To consolidate its reputation as a performing arts center and accommodate the famed Williamstown Theatre Festival held in the summer, the college needed a complex of three theaters: MainStage, a proscenium-arched main theater that could seat 550; CenterStage, a black-box space that could hold about 150; plus the renovated Adams Memorial, a combination thrust/proscenium stage with 200 or so seats. In addition, it desired a large dance-rehearsal space and the requisite number of dressing rooms, teaching studios, plus a costume workshop, and faculty offices.

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