Wrapped in aluminum panels, the multiuse performance space is both a first for New York's Rochester Institute of Technology and for the Los Angeles–based architect.
The cramped but acoustically blessed Powell Hall, home to the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, celebrates its centennial with a grand new lobby and back-of-house extension.
Snøhetta’s renovation and expansion of the regional performing arts center adds new theater venues and rehearsal spaces while preserving the 1962 building’s mid-century appeal.
A short December 1964 survey of the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College—recently reimagined by Snøhetta—refers to the building as a ‘valuable prototype for new campus fine arts centers being planned elsewhere in the country.’
The $80 million capital project deftly upgrades and weaves together the rep’s existing buildings, including a repurposed neoclassical power station that houses the main performance venue.
Architecture is a discipline conceived in three dimensions. The fourth—time—is not often talked about, but its passage can dramatically alter how a space is perceived and used.