Performing Arts Centers!

[josefmayor 8]

This isn't just to show off one's city, Especially since the exterior of my city's performing arts center is... rather... 70's you could say... I'm trying to develop some early ideas for buildings to do to put in my architecture portfolio and I am wanting to do the exterior of a performing arts center.

So if you would be so kind as to post pictures of your performing arts centers and stuff...

Here's Tampa's Ugly Performing Arts Center

[muffinpunk787 1]

Here is Raleigh's:

The right and left glass areas are newer additions and add to the original stone area in the middle.  Good luck, i'd like to see what you come up with!

[sEAhAwk fAn121 0]

This is Kansas City's new one (under construction)

And this is our current one

Municipal Auditorim (built in 1936)

[IDS2 3,344]

We have 3:

Target Center (NBA, circus, etc.)


Orchestra Hall (MN Orchestra)




Xcel Energy Center (hockey)





I'd really appreciate you doing one of these! I have a very limited selection of bats let alone Minneapolis landmarks (if you're planning on realeasing it)

[YourNickname 0]

The Santa Fe Opera's Crosby Theatre. The site was chosen in 1957 when John Crosby and a friend found the perfect acoustic setting on a Mesa outside Santa Fe by firing a riffle into the air and listening for the echo off the mountains. It was (and I think still is) the only outdoor Opera theatre in America.

The original theatre was simply a stage and some benches. This newest one was constructed in 1997. It remains open-aired on both sides - and at the back of the stage - to keep the scenery and acoustics of the surrounding mountains. But it has a nice roof to keep patrons and performers dry. It faces west so that evening performances have the sunset as their background.

[josefmayor 8]

Thanks everyone for your pictures.

IDS2 I am really interested in the Target Center can you provide some more pictures?!

Santa Fe must have some beautiful weather to have an out door type auditorium.

Tampa couldn't have that because of the humidty and heat. BUt that is an increadible design.

SEAhAwk, I'm going to have to steal part of that design in the KC new one.

Are they going to keep the old one as a musuem perhaps?

Muffitpunk Do you have some more pictures that are closer and show more detail

I enjoy Raleigh alot, my grandma lives in Monroe, and my mom is from Charolette!

[YourNickname 0]

Originally posted by: josefmayorSanta Fe must have some beautiful weather to have an out door type auditorium.

Tampa couldn't have that because of the humidty and heat. BUt that is an increadible design.quote>

 

Yeah, the whole middle of the high desert thing helps. But Santa Fe does get really nasty weather during the winter. Luckily, the theatre is closed during the winter (we have a smaller one in the core of the city called The Linsic. It was the city's first motion picture theatre, but it was refurbished in 1998). Everything is protected from water damage at the Opera, because snow could really do a number on that thing.

[Odainsaker 2,133]

Here is the old San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, a late 1920's landmark in formally austere Spanish Colonial Revival.  Beneath a shallow dome is the vast oval auditorium hall.

The Beaux-Arts and City Beautiful influences certainly makes this a stately and dignified civic site.

The more modern focus of the city's entertainment purse strings is the Lila C0ckrell Theatre, which is but a small part of the sprawling and newly-expanded Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center.  San Antonio is already a popular tourist and convention destination, so this extent of expansion ultimately pays off.

This is the primary river entrance to the complex, integrated into the city's popular pedestrian and boat-filled Riverwalk, and sporting a river lobby bridge at center.  On the left is the theatre proper, while beyond looms to the Tower of the Americas.

This is somewhat too conservatively austere for my taste, though I do like the grand mural and the riverboat docks.

There are a number of other important performing arts halls of various sizes thought the city, however, the most important focal center, greater even than all the civic monuments and public institutions, is this one in the center of the downtown business district:

Hidden within a series of rather non-descript historical revivalist buildings are the Majestic Theatre, its next-door neighbor the Empire Theatre, and its nearby neighbor the Aztec Theatre.  These are grand old theaters from the roaring 1920's of vaudeville and early cinema, and their decorous interiors, especially the frothy Spanish-revival Majestic and the Hollywood-Mayan Aztec, are among the more lavish of the few remaining historic show palaces in the U.S.   Also nearby is the flamboyant late-Art Deco Alameda Theatre, once the largest Spanish-language movie house in the country, and currently under painstaking restoration by the Smithsonian as a cultural icon.  Across from the Majestic and the Empire was the huge and exuberantly rococo Texas Theater, but it was foolishly and sadly demolished for the bland modern glass AT&T headquarters.  Only a small part of the facade of that showplace was saved and partly incorporated into the newer glass box.  The buildings of the restored Majestic and Empire Theatres have been combined into the city's Majestic Performing Arts Center, which now houses the San Antonio Symphony, while the upper levels of the Majestic Building has been converted into downtown apartments (I want an apartment up there!).  The backstages of both formerly independant theatres have also been combined to simultaneously service both halls for large coordinated events.  When the great Broadway musicals and popular stage shows come to town, these are the places they go.

Yeah, it is old-fashioned, atmospheric, and overdone, but I like it!  One of the few remaining original "atmospheric" theatres, where the decor resembles a fanciful outdoor garden or architectural scene while the ceiling has a whispy nightsky effect complete with lights for twinkling stars and backlighting for dusk or twilight effects.

[muffinpunk787 1]

I've been to Monroe before.. and my friend has lots of family there!

Here are some more pictures:

These are all pictures from after it was renovated in 2000.  The old structure just contained the middle auditorium but the new structure contains the Concert Hall (on the right) and the Opera Theater (on the left).  Here is a large overview of the building:

And here is a floorplan, hope this helps!

[YourNickname 0]

The glass with neo-classical masonry is really neat.

[lost0890 0]

Poway, California

Poway Center for the Performing Arts

This is the front of the building viewed from the corner of Titan Way and Espola Road.

It is no where near as big as the other PACs posted but it is a Performing Arts Center and you said you wanted ideas for your portfolio, so I thought it might help.

[DFire870 2]

Austin doesn't really have a lot of performing arts centers, but we make up for it in the amount of music venues for artists and bands to play (why do you think we're the Live Music Capital of the World?)

Notable centers are the Paramount and State Theaters, located next door to each other on Congress Avenue, which goes up to the State Capitol.

There's also the Frank Erwin Center, which is owned by UT Austin. Right now, this is the biggest indoor place where bands can play.

However, Austin's first "true" performing arts center is under construction. The Long Center for the Performing Arts is being built where the Palmer Auditiorium used to stand.

[IDS2 3,344]

OK Josef I sent you some pics of Target Center hope it helps.

[josefmayor 8]

Thanks everyone I'm going to europe in 2 weeks and I'm going to draw up some stuff aswell as use gmax on my laptop to maybe do some 3d on it.

I'm going to kind of mix a lot of the ones I've seen so far especially the Target, Providence, Raleigh and San Antonio.

Thanks so much for the help and I hope this I justify my vision.

[Deathamphetimine 2]

While Tampa's Peforming Arts Center may be boxy and 70's, It is just a testament to Tampa's diverse architecture, from Gothic revival to post-modern, thats Tampa.

[Sticksboi05 2]

The Kennedy Center

[Jordanmac 0]

A rendering for the future Performing Arts Center in downtown Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. It's under construction and will be finished in 2008.

[bdogmally 0]

here is the holland performing arts center in omaha nebraska my first time uploadin pics so bear with me