Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

FDA worked with the Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation, LMN Architects, and community arts groups in a collaborative process to create the new Center. The PAC, which is a renovation and expansion of the historic San Antonio Municipal Auditorium, celebrates the unique character of the property while providing a state-of-the-art facility for San Antonio’s cultural arts groups. The new Performing Arts Center serves as a permanent home for San Antonio’s major performing arts organizations, including the San Antonio Symphony, Ballet, and Opera. One of the major hall’s most striking qualities is its ability to transform from a nearly 1,800-seat performance hall into a flat-floor ballroom space, making it an incredibly flexible venue, equally suited for music and special events. The Tobin Center is comprised of the large, transformative H-E-B theatre the 295-seat Studio Theater and the 600-seat River Walk Plaza, rehearsal facilities, educational spaces, and offices.

Project Details
  • Client: Bexar County Performing Arts Center Foundation
  • Architect: LMN Architects
  • Arch. of Record: Marmon Mok
  • Completion Year: 2014
  • Location: San Antonio, Texas
  • Lighting: Horton Lees Brogden
  • Acoustician: Akustiks
  • Capacity: 1,750 seats
Awards
  • 2016 Urban Land Institute Global Award for Excellence
  • 2016 AIA Washington Council Civic Design Awards, Merit Award
  • 2016 AIA San Antonio – Honor Award
  • 2016 AIA San Antonio – Mayor’s Choice Award
  • 2014 World Architecture News Civic Buildings Award Finalist
  • 2013 Best Work in Progress, SA Downtown Best Awards
  • 2012 American Architecture Award
  • 2012 AIA Civic Design Award, Citation, Unbuilt Category
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Utah Performing Arts Center | The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Theater

Utah Performing Arts Center
The George S. and Dolores Dore Eccles Theater

FDA was hired by GTS Development for Salt Lake County to conduct a feasibility study and develop a program for the Utah Performing Arts Center. FDA worked closely with GTS and the County to plan and implement an architectural selection process, which led to the selection of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. FDA continued on the project, collaborating with Pelli Clarke Pelli, HKS Architects, and acoustical consultant Jaffe Holden. The Eccles Theater presents touring Broadway productions, nationally prominent family shows, and music and comedy acts. These shows arrive in Salt Lake City much sooner with the new venue, making Broadway more available to all Utahns. The theater also serves as an additional venue for local arts organizations, including Ballet West and Utah Opera. The design of the Utah Performing Arts Center captures the spirit of its place — weaving the theater into downtown Salt Lake City, making connections to recent developments and serving as a catalyst for additional economic growth — a world-class theatre that reflects its surroundings.

Project Details
  • Client: City of Salt Lake
  • Architect: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
  • Arch. of Record: HKS Architects
  • Completion Year: 2016
  • Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Acoustician: Jaffe Holden
  • Capacity: 2,500 seats
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Xiqu Centre

Xiqu Centre

The new Xiqu Centre will host locally produced Cantonese Opera performances as well as visiting companies from across the Chinese-speaking world, where there are over 250 regional performance traditions. In addition to a main theatre seating 1,100, the project will include a traditional Tea House, rehearsal rooms and educational spaces. With 1,100 seats and a single balcony with side galleries, the main hall is intimate and lively. Taking inspiration from a Chinese garden, round “moon gates” define the side and back walls of the theatre. A 200-seat Tea House adds another, less formal option for visitors and a second space for intimate performances.The Xiqu Centre’s overall design lifts the opera house up above the main level, creating a plaza which opens to the rest of the West Kowloon Cultural District site. The plaza will be home to seasonally-constructed bamboo theatres and concerts, and also will serve as the first meeting point for visitors to the Cultural District.

Project Details
  • Client: West Kowloon Cultural District Authority
  • Architect: Revery Architecture (formerly Bing Thom Architects)
  • Arch. of Record: Ronald Lu & Partners Hong Kong
  • Completion Year: 2019
  • Location: Hong Kong, China
  • Acoustician: Sound Space Vision
  • Capacity: 1,100 seats
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National Arts Centre

National Arts Centre (Architectural Rejuvenation)

The National Arts Centre is a Canadian landmark, conceived in 1967 (Canada’s Centennial year) as the premier showcase for the very best performing arts in the country. Situated in the heart of the nation’s capital on Confederation Square, the NAC displays a Brutalist style that made it a fortress for the arts. In anticipation of Canada’s 150th celebration in 2017, a rejuvenation was completed to establish new transparency and connection with the city. The transformation includes improved spaces for performance, new wings for audience and presentation events, and a new identity in the capital and for Canada as a whole. Public space for education, pre-concert gatherings, and small concerts will occupy the new North Atrium. An upper level Lounge will take in views of Confederation Square and Parliament Hill. This renewal brings the artistic energy of creation to the forefront to engage with the public and creates a dynamic crossroads for gathering at the NAC at all times of the day. FDA provided all performative capabilities and infrastructure for the public spaces.

Project Details
  • Client: National Arts Centre
  • Architect: Diamond Schmitt Architects
  • Completion Year: 2017
  • Location: Ottawa, Ontario
  • Acoustician: Threshold
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The Shed

The Shed

Photo Credit: Iwan Baan

The Shed is an exciting new home for the visual, performing and multimedia arts on the West Side of Manhattan on the south end of the Hudson Yards district.  The concept for The Shed emerged from a need for space to host large projects for larger audiences than most of New York’s cultural real estate can handle. Temporary and touring shows, food and art fairs, fashion shows and concerts will be held inside and outside the core building, which features a 140-foot retractable canopy that enables the adjacent plaza to become a full-fledged event space. FDA’s team is collaborating with DS+R, Rockwell Group and the client group to plan the performance galleries in the base building and the shed space, along with the complex technical infrastructure that will allow these spaces to be used flexibly and experimentally. FDA’s work includes design for the front and back of house spaces to make them usable for special events, concerts, theatre, dance, film and other presentations.

Project Details
  • Architect: Diller Scofido + Renfro
  • Arch. of Record: Rockwell Group
  • Completion Year: 2019
  • Location: New York, New York
  • Lighting: Tillotson
  • Acoustician: Akustiks
  • Building Size: 170,000 s.f.

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