PROJECT / DALLAS CITY PERFORMANCE HALL, TEXAS, USA
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DALLAS RENEWAL
The Dallas City Performance Hall is the new lynch pin in the city’s burgeoning Arts District. Schuler Shook provided an adaptable lighting scheme suited to the building’s many uses.
The Dallas City Performance Hall is located in the city’s Arts District, which serves as a central performance venue for emerging arts groups. As the gateway to the Arts District, the hall is the newest building in a district where the first building, the Dallas Museum of Art, opened in 1984. The Arts District is the ultimate destination for the visual and performing arts in Dallas, and the architecture of each building within the dis- trict adds to the area’s cultural dominance. Costing $40 million to build, the hall boasts a 750-seat proscenium theatre supported by a multilevel lobby as well as function spaces, backstage support spaces and offic- es. A second phase of construction, when completed, will add a further two flexible
theatres, an art gallery, a café and rehears- al and classroom space.
Schuler Shook began work on the project in 2004, partnered with a team led by archi- tects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Corgan Associates. Sixty-nine of the area’s arts groups par- ticipated in the planning of the building. Schuler Shook used comments from meet- ings and interviews to assess the performing arts community’s needs and how the new building could serve them. Using the collected data the planners developed six conceptual design schemes before each was evaluated for cost. One scheme was selected as the version thought best to move forward with, one that suited
The auditorium of the Dallas City Performance Hall. The balcony edge railings include colour changing LED marker lights allowing changes of atmosphere for special events.
the allotted budget and was suitable for the building’s many users.
Between the lobby and the auditorium, two light wells allow daylight into the auditori- um and LED RGB fixtures at the bottom of the wells allow for the addition of colour. Within the auditorium itself LED RGB wash lights illuminate the upper ceiling with colour, while dimmable halogen wall-grazers add warmth to the room.
In both the lobby and the auditorium, the balcony edge railings include colour chang- ing LED marker lights that allow further cus-
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