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project name: |
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performing art center |
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dakota prarie regional center for the arts |
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new rockford, nd |
| project size: |
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43,500 sf |
| completion: |
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tbd |
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challenge: |
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To create a new performing arts center supporting the regional
art community in this upper Great Plains city. |
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solution: |
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The client desires to create a multi-faceted performing arts
center serving the region as a cultural destination, the artistic community, as
well as a facility for dinner and special functions.
Designed as a year-round facility, the new center will not only serve as the
company’s primary performance space, but also provide a professional theater for
the region’s K-12 schools and collegiate programs. The primary facility is
a 300-seat dinner theater with a full-fly, front and mid-house, stage house
catwalk and rigging systems. A full dimmer system, follow-spots, sound and
lighting boards complete the professional theater. Supporting the theater are
dressing and green rooms, scene shop, and storage.
Additionally, there is a 50-seat restaurant serving non-theater goers. The
kitchen serves both halls. During warmer months, the outdoor amphitheater
adds an additional performance venue for the community.
The building is designed to meet LEED-gold standards, which will include a rain
water harvesting system, roof-mounted wind turbines, green roof, and indigenous
plant species interior and exterior to the building. |
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