A home for small and medium arts groups, the Dallas City Performance Hall will be the first LEED Silver-rated performing arts facility in Texas. The architect of record for this project is Corgan Associates, Inc. of Dallas and the design firm is Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, LLP (SOM) of Chicago.
Featuring exciting design and architecture, the City Performance Hall includes a 750-seat theatre, a grand lobby, event room and back of house facilities which include an enclosed garden and educational and meeting spaces.
To help prepare for performances, it features a green room area outside, which has two star dressing areas and a private meditation garden for performers. A future Phase Two of the project is designed to include two flexible 200-seat theatres, an art gallery, a café and a bookshop.
Concrete has been used as the primary construction material as it can be formed into different shapes, painted and stained. The structure features a long sweeping roof flanked by two stories of cast-in-place concrete walls. It is also organised as a series of linear pavilions, capped by varying ribbon-like roof forms.
Creating an intricate and beautiful, horizontal wood grain design covering each wall in its entirety, the interior audience chamber of the building features articulated board form concrete walls. The solid concrete walls maintain the entertainment music and dialogue as well as keep distracting noises out.
The performance hall venue also features a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows in the main lobby, which offers panoramic view of the Arts District and a LED light curtain in the primary performance area.
