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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Building Example 1

Tempe Arts Center
Architects - A collaboration of Architekton with Barton Myers Associates, Inc.

Location - Tempe, Arizona

Size - 90,000 Square Feet
Completion date - September 2007

As with any performance space, acoustics was a top priority. The site presented a formidable challenge because of its close proximity to a busy highway, active train tracks, and most notably, Sky Harbor Airport 2 miles to the west. “Here was this incredible site—there are few projects next to a lake in Arizona—yet every 2 minutes, we had a jet going over the top of us,” explains Barton Myers, principal of Barton Myers Associates.

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Project Overview

The focus of my design will fall primarily into the category of Theaters with a secondary attempt to provide spaces that allow media production for live TV shows and video recording studios. In essence the spaces withing the building will not only be experienced first hand but also by means of modern technology.


Performing arts date back centuries, western performing arts start as as early as the Classical period, 6th century BC, ushered in by the poets like Sophocles and lead up today to play writers like Tyler Perry. These events create large gatherings for and audience to experience live entertainment.Today it is still done, but technology has allowed us to reach the audience without the large gatherings. Both options are coveted.