Iwan Baan
Located in the 10-acre Dallas Arts District, this $354 million, 80,300-square-foot building quite literally turns traditional theater typology on its side, placing back- and front-of-house functions above and below the glass-walled 575-seat auditorium. Flexible seating allows for easy transitions between proscenium, thrust, traverse, and flat-floor configurations.
Jury: “This building completely rechoreographed the way in which one experiences a theater.”
Client: “Our investment has already paid off in spades. Interest in attending a performance in this innovative space has soared. Performers are delighted (an understatement—they are practically giddy) to be able to conceive of so many ways to do a performance, and audiences love the surprise of never knowing what they are going to see.” —Deedie Rose, founding member of the board of directors of the AT&T Performing Arts Center
2011 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture
Jury
David Miller, FAIA, (chair) The Miller Hull Partnership
Ashley Clark, Assoc. AIA, LandDesign
Curtis Fentress, FAIA, Fentress Architects
T. Gunny Harboe, FAIA, Harboe Architect
David Neuman, FAIA, University of Virginia
Louis Pounders, FAIA, ANF Architects
Sarah Snodgrass, AIAS Representative, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Allison Williams, FAIA, Perkins+Will
Jennifer Yoos, AIA, VJAA
Ford Assembly Building, Richmond, Calif.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C.
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.
New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
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Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, AT&T Performing Arts Center, Dallas
Rooftop Garden, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Horizontal Skyscraper Vanke Center, Shenzhen, China
Diana Center, Barnard College, New York
U.S. Land Port of Entry, Warroad, Minn.