Archinect - News 2024-12-22T02:05:14-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/96186296/rice-picks-ds-r-for-opera-theater Rice picks DS+R for opera theater Archinect 2014-03-21T16:44:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/db/db323eb165157cde46a2bcd419f618a8?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Rice University has picked the New York architectural firm Diller Scofidio &amp; Renfro to design an opera theater scheduled to open in 2018. The 600-seat theater will stand in what now is a parking lot between Alice Pratt Brown Hall, the home of Rice's Shepherd School of Music, and Rice Stadium. Besides serving the school's Opera Department, the theater will be used for chamber music concerts and other events, Rice said. Charles Renfro, a 1989 Rice graduate, will be the lead architect.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>