City Performance Hall
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The Dallas City Performance Hall will be a performing arts venue located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA)
. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with the Architect of Record, Corgan Associates, Inc., and constructed by the City of Dallas, the City Performance Hall will be built in two phases. When both phases are complete, the venue will include a 750-seat acoustically flexible proscenium theater with two multipurpose performance spaces seating 200 people each. The complex will include galleries, a café, gift store and bookshop, educational and meeting facilities, artistic support spaces, and an indoor garden. Phase I, which consists of the 750-seat proscenium theater and its support spaces, is scheduled to be completed in 2012. The project will be LEED
Silver. Funding for the City Performance Hall is provided by the Citizens of Dallas through the 2006 Bond Program.
The project team includes:
Design Architect: SOM
Architect of Record: Corgan Associates, Inc.
Theater Consultants: Schuler Shook
Acoustics: Jaffe Holden
Cost Estimators: Donnell Consultants, Inc.
Construction Manager: McCarthy
Downtown Dallas
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. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with the Architect of Record, Corgan Associates, Inc., and constructed by the City of Dallas, the City Performance Hall will be built in two phases. When both phases are complete, the venue will include a 750-seat acoustically flexible proscenium theater with two multipurpose performance spaces seating 200 people each. The complex will include galleries, a café, gift store and bookshop, educational and meeting facilities, artistic support spaces, and an indoor garden. Phase I, which consists of the 750-seat proscenium theater and its support spaces, is scheduled to be completed in 2012. The project will be LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
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Silver. Funding for the City Performance Hall is provided by the Citizens of Dallas through the 2006 Bond Program.
The project team includes:
Design Architect: SOM
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP is an American architectural and engineering firm that was formed in Chicago in 1936 by Louis Skidmore and Nathaniel Owings; in 1939 they were joined by John O. Merrill. They opened their first branch in New York City, New York in 1937. SOM is one of the largest...
Architect of Record: Corgan Associates, Inc.
Theater Consultants: Schuler Shook
Acoustics: Jaffe Holden
Cost Estimators: Donnell Consultants, Inc.
Construction Manager: McCarthy