Performing Arts Center Design | Monterey Park Performing Arts Center | California | H Architecture

Monterey Park Performing Arts Center, MPPAC, is a mixed-use arts complex in Monterey Park, California with programs including a 3,000-seat performance hall, 5-star hotel, live/work condos, offices, a revolving restaurant and 400+ underground parking spaces. H’s design redefines the relationship among the performance hall, supporting programs and outdoor landscaped plaza, while articulating the beauty, harmony, and poetic movements from the artistry of diverse performing arts.

An elevated landscaped plaza, free from vehicular disturbance, allows easy pedestrian circulation among the various buildings, which mark the periphery of the site with double-skin mesh membrane exteriors. The continuous curvilinearity in the building placement not only creates a monolithic presence of the complex, but also provides visitors and residents optimum views toward downtown Los Angeles and the surrounding regions.

Also connecting the program is a continuous sloped roof, representing the trajectory gestures of a music conductor, which culminates over the performance hall. An infinity wall between the performing stage and the landscaped plaza transforms the hall into an indoor and outdoor theater offering an innovative audience experience.

Located 8 miles from downtown Los Angeles, MPPAC aims to become a complex which will serve the local Asian community and the southern California area as the epicenter for international pop culture and arts.......more

Caldicott School Performing Arts Building | Burnham | England | Henley Halebrown Rorrison Architects

The new building, comprising the main hall, three classrooms, a meeting room and common room, is sited beside the original house. The key decision was to partially submerge the building to reduce its bulk, to maintain views and mitigate any loss of light to the surrounding buildings. The newly created quad, now at the heart of the school, provides views over the grounds through the predominantly glazed walls of the hall. In this way the school grounds become, through use of the quad, central to the everyday life of the school...........more

The Science and Performing Arts complex | Xavier College | Peter Elliot Architecture + Urban Design

The Science and Performing Arts complex is a major new addition to the Xavier College campus. The commission for the project was won via a selected architectural design competition. Founded in the 1870’s, Xavier College occupies a spectacular site on Barkers Road Kew. The school buildings are grouped on the brow of a prominent hill surrounded by an open landscape of sports grounds. The most prominent feature of the School is the copper domed 1930’s Chapel, which can be seen for kilometres across the eastern suburbs. This together with the nineteenth century South and West Wing buildings forms a high quality architectural ensemble that is recognisably Xavier College......more

Cyprus Cultural Centre | Hopkins Architects

A focal point for Cyprus' performing arts, showcasing national and international performances of music, dance, opera and theatre.

Following an international architectural competition in March 2007, we were awarded a commission to design a Centre for Performing Arts for symphonic and chamber music, together with dance, opera and musical theatre. In response to the growing discerning regional audience and cultural tourism, the building will also play a strong role in the Capital's civic and educational life....more

Performing Arts Center Montgomery College,Takoma Park, Maryland | Smith Group

Location:Takoma Park, Maryland

Size:58,000 gsf

Cost:$22 million

This mixed-use facility provides both the college and the community a range of arts and theater spaces. The building circulation maximizes interactions among students and other users, and a dramatic roofscape and glass-walled street front make a real connection with the community. The effect is both to elevate the school's cultural offerings while contributing to the ongoing revitalization of Silver Spring, MD.

The Performing Arts Center also serves to bridge the eastern and western sections of the campus, unifying the overall master plan. Inside, a 500-seat theater for music and dance and a 125-seat performance studio for drama are complemented by classrooms, public zones and a glass-walled dance studio, visible to passersby.
The roofscape and extensive glazing intentionally make the facility more recognizable and visually accessible. A two-story "glass bar" provides urban scale and immediate identification of the arts center's amenities and function, lending excitement and drama to the streetscape. The larger theater's flexible design accommodates both traditional performances and artistic productions, such as music, dance and performance pieces. The massing of the building seeks to organize the west campus and the chaotic five-point street intersection.....more

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | Kansas City,Missouri | BNIM

310,000 square feet
1,800 seat Proscenium Theater
1,600 seat Concert Hall
Completion: Fall 2011
With Moshe Safdie and Associates, Inc.

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts will soon be counted among the finest performing arts venues in the world because of its superior acoustics, complex geometry and momentous spaces of exquisite design, detailing and construction. Designed by Moshe Safdie and Associates, in collaboration with renowned acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota and BNIM as joint architect of record, this facility was designed to produce near perfect acoustics, promising an exceptional experience for performers and audiences alike. Upon completion, the new center will provide two world-class performance halls for the resident organizations of the Kansas City Ballet, the Lyric Opera and the Kansas City Symphony and will contain a 1,800-seat proscenium theater and a 1,600-seat concert hall.
The new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts will be one of the most significant cultural facilities in the Midwest and will have a transformative effect on Kansas City’s urban core, economy and thriving arts community. Not only will the new structure and venue contribute to the livability of the downtown area and add to the redevelopment efforts of the urban core, but also it will open a vital corridor between the heart of the city and the heart of the adjacent Crossroads Arts District....more

TAIWAN POP MUSIC CENTER | Taipei, Taiwan |

Architect's statement
DESIGN CONCEPT
"The TAIWAN POP MUSIC CENTER project provides a unique and critical opportunity to reconsider the role of contemporary pop music within the world.
As the most successful form of performance art, pop music has proven to have the capacity to re-frame points of view, galvanize positions, introduce new forms of visual and acoustical pleasure, deliver the most compelling form of oration and organize capital into some of the most significant economic industries in history.
Additionally, pop music, like all forms of emergent art practice, has introduced and created entirely new audiences to the world. Our proposal for the TPMC intends to further the tradition of pop music by introducing new forms of architecture and social organization into the world, and developing entirely new audiences for music and urban life.
Unlike traditional theaters which organize their formal composition as an expression of their internal arrangement, or acoustic excellence, our proposal understands that a theater's own visual performance stands alone as its unique personality and character in the context of it's city family.
The Taiwan Pop Music Center as put forth, intends to interact with and communicate with the people of Taipei unlike any other project, by developing an expressed personality through its exterior, and caring for its inhabitants through development of a sequence of entries and exists throughout its interior distributed program.
Not only will the Taiwan Pop Music Center exist as a world class performance center of contemporary national and international music, but it will transcend the barrier of construction to create a new character in the world: one that people not only attend, but relate to, feel affection towards, and find themselves within.

LOCATION: Taipei, Taiwan
CLIENT: Department of Cultural Affairs/Taipei City Government
PROGRAM: 6000-seat indoor theater, 15,000-standing outdoor amphitheatre, hall of fame museum, six (6) live houses, park, parking, subway interface
AREA Site: 7.65 hectares
COST NT3,500,000,000 (US106,000,000)
STATUS: Design 2009 (Competition)

CONSULTING ENGINEERING Thornton Tomasetti
ACOUSTICAL ENGINEERING Shiner + Associates
Interesting images of the proposal here

The New Performing Arts centre | Nodeul Island,Korea | Vincent Callebaut

More pictures at Vincent Callebaut's

PROGRAM : The New Performing Arts centre (Opera House, Concert hall and Outdoor Concert Hall)
LOCATION : The Nodeul Island in the middle of the Hangang River
COMPETITION PROMOTERS : Seoul Metropolitan Government
COMPETITION ORGANIZATION : Dong Whan Kim, Director of Culture & Art Center Development
PERSPECTIVES : Philippe Steels

"The Opera House and the Concert Hall are both created on oval plans inscribed in the ellipse of the ground floor. They are studied for a reverberation time of sound between 1,6 and 1,9 second. Moreover, they belong both a morphology of acoustic adjustable boards which enables to change the corrections parameters and to obtain a listening quality adapted to different repertories. The music lovers imagine already they are listening to the National Orchestra of Corea ! "

Taipei Performing Arts Centre International Competition | Morphosis

Taipei performing arts center international competition | MVRDV

The Seoul Performing Arts Center Ii, Seoul, Korea-HLA

Time: 2006.07
Location: Seoul, Korea
Client: Committee for the Seoul Performing Arts Centre
Key dimensions: 53000 m2
Competition: International design competition
Project data and images from:HLA

Taipei Performing Arts Center by NL Architects