Howard Community College | Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center

Howard Community College

Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center

FDA was hired to collaborate on the design of a new visual and performing arts center for Howard Community College’s arts and humanities programs. The Peter and Elizabeth Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center, designed with Wilson Butler Architects, is home to three performance venues, two art galleries, two dance studios and a suite of instructional facilities. The college’s existing Smith Theatre was the anchor for the new building and the instructional and support facilities for the Horowitz Center were planned to be shared among the venues.

The brand new performance spaces include the Studio Theatre which seats up to 250, the Monteabaro Recital Hall which seats up to 119, and the Dance Rehearsal Studio which is often used for intimate performances. FDA was also involved in a later renovation of the existing Smith Theatre which seats up to 424.

Project Details
  • Client: Howard Community College
  • Architect: Wilson Butler Architects
  • Arch. of Record: Design Collabrative, Inc.
  • Completion Year: 2006
  • Location: Columbia, Maryland
  • Acoustician: Shen Milson Wilke
  • Building Size: 77,750 s.f.
  • Capacity: 119 seats

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Hobby Center for the Performing Arts | Zilkha Hall

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Zilkha Hall

Featuring the same backstage amenities as Sarofim Hall except on a smaller scale, the 500-seat, two-level Zilkha Hall offers natural acoustics in a warm interior enlivened by rich, walnut wood accents. Zilkha Hall seats 350 on the orchestra level and 150 on the mezzanine, an ideal size for community events.

The Hobby Center’s interiors have been designed by Robert A.M. Stern and Morris Architects to ensure that patrons enjoy the Center from the moment they arrive. Amenities include a restaurant, private dining and reception rooms, a piano bar, ample restrooms, and seating that provides adequate leg room for even the tallest Texan. The complex also houses the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre, administrative offices, and rehearsal studios.

A feasibility study led by FDA helped to determine the need for a facility to serve small to mid-sized arts organizations and reflect the city’s cultural diversity.

Project Details
  • Client: Houston Music Hall Foundation
  • Architect: Robert A.M. Stern
  • Arch. of Record: Morris Architects
  • Completion Year: 2002
  • Location: Houston, Texas
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden Acoustics
  • Building Size: 248,000 s.f.
  • Capacity: 500 seats

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Hobby Center for the Performing Arts | Sarofim Hall

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Sarofim Hall

This major multipurpose center includes the 2,650-seat Sarofim Hall and the 500-seat Zilkha Hall, which is the largest venue in Texas for Broadway tours. Designed primarily for musical theatre, Sarofim Hall also serves as the resident home of Houston’s 30-year-old musical theatre group, “Theatre Under the Stars”. Zilkha Hall seats 350 on the orchestra level and 150 on the mezzanine, a perfect size for smaller events. Because Sarofim Hall is a presenter of major touring attractions, the large stage and commodious backstage areas have state-of-the-art technology and are “user friendly,” both for large and small productions and presenters. At over 9,000 s.f., the Grand Lobby gives patrons ample space to meet and greet.

The building’s interiors have been designed by Robert A.M. Stern and Morris Architects to ensure that patrons enjoy the Center from the moment they arrive. Amenities include a restaurant, private dining and reception rooms, a piano bar, ample restrooms, and adequate leg room in the auditorium seats for even the tallest Texan. The complex also houses the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre, administrative offices, and rehearsal studios.

Project Details
  • Client: Houston Music Hall Foundation
  • Architect: Robert A.M. Stern
  • Arch. of Record: Morris Architects
  • Completion Year: 2002
  • Location: Houston, Texas
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden Acoustics
  • Building Size: 248,000 s.f.
  • Capacity: 2,650 seats

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Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts

This major multipurpose center includes the 2,650-seat Sarofim Hall and the 500-seat Zilkha Hall. It is the largest venue in Texas for Broadway tours. Designed primarily for musical theatre, Sarofim Hall also serves as the resident home of Houston’s 30-year-old musical theatre group, “Theatre Under the Stars”.

Zilkha Hall seats 350 on the orchestra level and 150 on the mezzanine, a perfect size for smaller events. Because the Center is a presenter of major touring attractions, the large stage and commodious backstage areas have state-of-the-art technology and are “user friendly,” for large and small productions and presenters.

The building’s interiors have been designed by Robert A.M. Stern and Morris Architects to ensure that patrons enjoy the Center from the moment they arrive. Amenities include a restaurant, private dining and reception rooms, a piano bar, ample restrooms, and seating that offers adequate leg room for even the tallest Texan. The complex also houses the Humphreys School of Musical Theatre, administrative offices, and rehearsal studios.

Project Details
  • Client: Houston Music Hall Foundation
  • Architect: Robert A.M. Stern
  • Arch. of Record: Morris Architects
  • Completion Year: 2002
  • Location: Houston, Texas
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden Acoustics
  • Building Size: 248,000 s.f.

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Hobart and William Smith College | Bartlett Theatre

Hobart and William Smith College | Bartlett Theatre

Located in Coxe Hall, a grand Jacobean-style building designed by Clinton and Russell Architects and constructed in 1901, Hobart and William Smith College’s Bartlett Theatre is currently home to all of the Theatre Program’s productions on campus.

Coxe Hall is named for Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe, a benefactor of the school. Bartlett Theater shares the Hall with the president’s office, The Pub, and a classroom wing, which was added in the 1920s.

In 1942, the space beneath was renovated to add dressing rooms, and later a prop room which at that time was part of the Student Union. In 1970, with a donation from Mrs. Blanchard Bartlett Walker, the theatre was updated and dedicated to Blanchard H. Bartlett, director of the Theatre Program from 1919-1936.

The HWS Theatre Program combines opportunities for live performance with a variety of courses in theatrical production, performance, theory, history and literature; and student- and faculty-directed productions are presented in Bartlett Theatre.

Project Details
  • Client: Hobart College
  • Architect: Platt Byard Dovell White
  • Arch. of Record: Armstrong / Cummings
  • Completion Year: 1988
  • Location: Geneva, New York

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

(Public Spaces Visioning Study)

The “Bubble” is an inflatable event space planned for the cylindrical courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum. In respectful dialogue with this Modernist icon originally designed by Gordon Bunshaft in 1974, the Bubble is an architecture of air: a pneumatic structure enclosed only by a thin translucent membrane that squeezes into the void of the building and oozes out the top and beneath its mass. In contrast to the familiar strategy of roofing over courtyards of institutional buildings, the Bubble produces a soft building inside of a hard one in which existing and new spaces, both interior and exterior are playfully intertwined. The ephemeral structure is erected once a year for two months. The additional 11,000 sf of sheltered space accommodates audiences of 500–800 for an array of public events including performing arts, film, lectures and debates. Its form is shaped by a series of cable rings that constrict the membrane, pulling it away from the inner wall of the courtyard while other cables tether it into place. The resulting contours act acoustically and produce changing shafts and pockets of outdoor space experienced from the ground and the galleries on the second and third levels.

Project Details
  • Architect: Diller Scofido + Renfro
  • Arch. of Record: Kling Stubbins
  • Completion Year: 2012
  • Location: Washington, Dist of Columbia
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden Acoustics
  • Building Size: 11,000 s.f.
  • Capacity: 800 seats

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Herb Alpert Educational Village, New Roads School | Moss Theater

Herb Alpert Educational Village

New Roads School | Moss Theater

Photo Credit: Len Allington

The New Roads School Board of Trustees, in partnership with the school’s founding organization, the New Visions Foundation, is creating an extraordinary and unique educational center – The Herb Alpert Educational Village – to enhance New Roads’ established commitment to community and to college-preparatory education rich in diversity, innovation, respectful inquiry, and intellectual excellence.

In keeping with the School’s philosophy of environmental sanity, the structures are innovatively functional and ecological. Green design and building concepts will be carefully integrated into all aspects of the Village, lessening the school’s environmental impact and adding to the learning experience of students and the community.

Project Details
  • Client: New Roads School
  • Architect: John Berry Architects
  • Completion Year: 2012
  • Location: Santa Monica, California
  • Capacity: 430 seats

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Henderson-Hopkins School

Henderson-Hopkins School

The Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School and the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Early Childhood Center, together called Henderson-Hopkins, is the first new Baltimore public school built in more than 20 years. Envisioned to catalyze the revitalization of East Baltimore, the project integrates innovative educational facilities with community and recreational resources and reflects the neighborhood’s urban fabric.

Good public schools are critical institutions in supporting and developing successful communities. Conceived as a community hub housing both an innovative early childcare center and school and shared community and recreational resources, the Henderson-Hopkins school was borne out of a need to support the underserved existing community, and to act as a magnet for new development. The overall campus will serve as a community hub for family engagement, citizenship, and wellness.

For community use, the auditorium lobby is accessed through double doors adjacent to the school’s main entrance, and can also be entered from within the school. Folding seating on telescopic risers accommodates an audience of 304; acoustical finishes throughout cater to both musical and dramatic performance requirements; and backstage storage and multipurpose spaces allow for flexibility of use.

Project Details
  • Client: Johns Hopkins School of Education
  • Architect: Rogers Partners
  • Completion Year: 2014
  • Location: Baltimore, Maryland
  • Lighting: Flux Studio
  • Acoustician: Spexsys, LLC
  • Building Size: 4,800 s.f.
  • Capacity: 304 seats

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The Hayes Theater

The Hayes Theater

In 1979, Second Stage launched with the mission of producing “second stagings” of contemporary American plays that deserved to reach a wider audience. For 38 years, they’ve received 180 award nominations, produced three Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, and transferred nine productions to Broadway. Now, with the $64M acquisition and renovation of the historic Helen Hayes Theater, they’ve expanded their campus from two stages to three, broadening their impact on our artists and audiences, and creating a much-needed Broadway home for new American plays and diverse voices.

With its unusual Neo-Georgian design, the Hayes is a striking presence on 44th Street. The entire building has been modernized to create a more welcoming environment with a new cafe lounge, a space for hosting readings, expanded dressing rooms for the artists, nearly double the number of restrooms, a new wheelchair-friendly box office, a full-service elevator, and new seating options throughout the auditorium. For the first time in the building’s history, mobility-impaired guests will have the same freedom of movement and choice of seats as everyone else. The renovation is designed to achieve LEED silver certification.

Project Details
  • Client: Second Stage Theater
  • Architect: Rockwell Group
  • Completion Year: 2018
  • Location: New York, New York
  • Lighting: Focus Lighting
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden
  • Capacity: 597 seats

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Hatch Memorial Shell

Hatch Memorial Shell

As part of the restoration and renovation of this landmark, 50-year-old concert shell on the banks of the Charles River, the aging theatrical lighting and acoustical systems were replaced by new fixtures and performance lighting positions. A new flexible stage was also added, replacing the worn-out original. The award-winning update restores and enhances the famous “golden nights” look of the shell’s half-century old lighting fixtures additionally, below-ground support systems, dressing rooms, and offices were reconfigured to address current needs, and a new orchestra riser system and dance platforms were designed and installed.

This beloved landmark serves as the summer home of the Boston Pops, Boston Ballet, and as a venue for music and dance groups, performers and films. The shell is operated by the Boston Metropolitan District Commission.

Project Details
  • Client: Boston Metropolitan District Commission
  • Architect: Finegold & Alexander Architects
  • Completion Year: 1991
  • Location: Boston, Massachusetts
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden Acoustics

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