Performing Arts Centers
Main Concert Hall. Image courtesy of Sydney Opera House
Acoustical improvements will be made alongside upgrades in accessibility, efficiency, and flexibi...
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The performance space at the Omaha (Neb.) Conservatory of Music was carved from the sanctuary of what had been Temple Israel. Image: @2015 Dan Schwalm/HDR
The Omaha Conservatory of Music gets a new home in a temple. A fire leads to an ambitious rebuild...
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Diamond Schmitt's Buddy Holly Hall in Lubbock, Texas. Renderings courtesy Diamond Schmitt Architects. Click images to enlarge.
The spacious and versatile complex can hold operas, plays, rock concerts, and conferences.
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Dubai Opera House. Rendering courtesy Emaar.
The Opera District will have a 2,000-seat theater and three residential complexes.
Taipei Pop Music Center’s North Site (background) and South Site (foreground). All renderings: Jesse Reiser + Nanako Umemoto. Click here for larger image.
The designers believe the center, which will have performance areas, production spaces, and a hal...
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Rendering courtesy © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Among the unique design features is a movable set of structural audience “towers” that allows for...
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The buildings will sit next to each other, connected with landscaping that will bring in over 100 new trees. Renderings by Encore courtesy Thomas Phifer and Partners
Emphasizing the building’s role in the public sphere, the museum will be accessible from all side...
The design, called Theater on the Parade, received 57% of 2,681 votes cast online, beating out Rotterdam-based Ector Hoogstad Architects’ more classical, brick-structured proposal. Renderings courtesy UNStudio
UNStudio’s Theatre on the Parade received nearly three-fifths of votes cast in contest between tw...
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The museum was conceived as a formal extension to the breakwater. Renderings courtesy Rojkind Arquitectos
The same way Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim has put Bilbao on the map, architect Michel Rojkind hopes h...
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Photo: PopBrixton.org
London's newest business complex, Pop Brixton, will support local entrepreneurs, create jobs, and...
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The National September 11 Memorial Museum incorporates evocative artifacts of the destroyed Twin Towers, including the "Last Column" (pictured). It was honored with a Gold Award in BD+C's 2015 Building Team Awards. Photo: Jin Lee / courtesy 9/11 Memorial Museum
From Lean construction to tri-party IPD to advanced BIM/VDC coordination, these 14 Building Teams...
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The new arts venue at Virginia Tech is the ninth building on campus to be LEED-certified. Jeff Goldberg/Esto Photographics Inc.
The STV-led Building Team creates a world-class performance and arts venue with learning and entr...
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The Vanderbilt Medical Center at One Hundred Oaks Mall transformed a former 1960s-era indoor shopping mall in Nashville, Tenn., into a mixed-use medical office center for Vanderbilt University. Photo courtesy Vanderbilt University
Approximately one-third of the country’s 1,200 enclosed malls are dead or dying. The good news is...
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Antinori Winter by Archea Associati in San Casciano Val di Pesa, Florence, Italy. Photo by Pietro Savorelli
Bjarke Ingels' Danish Maritime Museum and the Ravensburg Art Museum by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei...
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The 2.4-acre park is the brainchild of billionaire mogul Barry Diller and his wife, the fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. Renderings courtesy Heatherwick Studio
The developers envision the 2.4-acre space as a major performance arts venue.
You can catch a train at Minneapolis’s new Target Field Station. You can also share in an experie...
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Construction consultant FMI foresees—with some caveats—continuing growth in the office, lodging,...
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The Bahrain National Theatre will be recognized with an Honor Award by the United States Institut...
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Backed by billionaire Barry Diller, the $170 million "floating park" is planned for the Hudson Ri...
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The winning scheme by Seoul-based Designcamp Moonpark features a dramatic folded facade that take...
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Providing more comfortable conditions to building occupants has become a top priority in today’s...
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During a literary symposium in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged architects, authors, a...
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The new Everyman Theatre in Liverpool by Haworth Tompkins has won the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize...
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The white paper includes a list of 193 flame retardants, including 29 discovered in building and...
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The impetus behind Harvard's Center for Green Buildings and Cities is what the design school’s de...
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This AIA CES Discovery course discusses the six elements of an EIFS wall assembly; common EIFS fa...
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This year marks the fifth anniversary of the American Institute of Architects’ effort to have arc...
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Montreal's Olympic Stadium and the Sydney Opera House are among the landmark projects to bust the...
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On the heels of recording its strongest pace of growth since 2007, there continues to be an incre...
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From metal mesh panels to concealed-suspension ceilings, here's our roundup of the latest acousti...
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