The International Performance Center
Shenzhen is a place of rapid transformation and incredible energy. When we conceived the design for this city, we wanted to create something emblematic of its vitality that is celebratory and welcoming – the two ‘jewels’ are both expressive of the creative power of performance, and reflective, engaging with the civic life outside. Stephen P-D […]
Omaha Performing Arts, Steelhouse Omaha
“Beginning with the Holland Center, it has been our great pleasure to work together with O-pa to create a campus that expresses the richness and breadth of their mission and share it with an even wider audience. Steelhouse Omaha, working in tandem with the Holland, will accommodate the future needs of touring performers, arts organizations […]
Stanford University, Bing Concert Hall
The design of Bing Concert Hall was imagined from the beginning as a “clearing in the woods” – a place apart, at some remove from the hubbub of the main campus, a place to be discovered, a place to come together. Richard Olcott, Design Partner A beacon above the trees, the concert hall drum draws […]
Robinson Center
Inspired by the building’s Art Deco style, the parti and the interior of the performance hall employ angular geometric lines complementing the history of the building while providing a contemporary look to the future. Richard Olcott The renovation and expansion improves the acoustic performance of the performance hall by expanding it into existing conference spaces […]
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall Public Space Redesign
The Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Atrium reshapes the relationship between the performance spaces and the public, making Jazz at Lincoln Center a more inviting destination and clarifying its identity in the Time Warner Center by emphasizing the relationship between the space and the city. Richard Olcott, Design Partner As a performing arts center that is […]
Carnegie Hall, Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall
Outside the auditorium, the ellipse appears infinite; its curvature leads the audience around to each point of entry to the house. Nested within the ellipse are four freestanding walls, paneled in American Sycamore, that define the acoustic volume. The geometrical contrast in the design echoes the mutability of the Hall’s various stages. Richard Olcott, Design […]
Holland Performing Arts Center
The notational abstraction of a musical score inspired various techniques for interpreting time, rhythm and composition three-dimensionally. Through experiments with scale and surface, this lyrical approach synchronized the arrangement of the building’s physical and experiential characteristics. Richard Olcott, Design Partner Responding to the downtown context, the urban design strategy reinforces Omaha’s characteristic patterns of pedestrian […]
Xiamen Music Center Design Competition
Adjacent to a historic nineteenth century military fort, the Music Center acknowledges the site’s history and landscape within a new spatial choreography. The embrace between mountainous landscape and the built environment and between the undulating shoreline and corresponding profile of water define the city of Xiamen and shape the design concept. The building is spliced […]
Peter Norton Symphony Space
While Symphony Space was sorely in need of modernization, the quandary became how to retain memories, reinforce identity and distinguish their space from the luxury rental units being developed atop them. James S. Polshek, Design Partner In addition to preserving the 827-seat Symphony Space Theater and recreating the Thalia as a flexible theater that allows […]
The Santa Fe Opera
The design is contextual, yet evocative of distant times and places: its roof form subtly echoes the profiles of the surrounding mountains and evokes the billowing tents associated with itinerant festivals appropriate to opera’s origins and Santa Fe Opera’s summer season. James S. Polshek, Design Partner The waved roof of this formally-striking, technically-sophisticated and enlarged […]