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Turn like a wheel inside a wheel: Steinmetz Hall is almost ready to move and groove in Orlando

2022-01-11T18:49:00-05:00

Future generations of concertgoers in the Orlando area will want a ticket to commemorate the moment the city’s dynamic new $612 million performance venue makes its theatrical debut at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts this Friday.

Designed by former UCLA faculty member Barton Myers, Steinmetz Hall is a mechanical wonder made even more remarkable by the way its form can be shifted to adapt to one of the building’s myriad uses. The concert hall has a maximum seating capacity of 1,650 and consists of multiple layouts that can be applied to a variety of individual types of musical and artistic performances.

Photo courtesy Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

With help from Gala Systems, Myers created a series of interchangeable components that can be rearranged seamlessly according to need. A retractable acoustic shell is moved in and out of place thanks to 65 feet of track that facilitates the theater’s biggest area of public use as a concert hall. Additional space...

10 spectacular performance spaces for your Friday inspiration

2020-01-10T08:00:00-05:00

In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles.

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Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the NEW board Performance Spaces.

↑ Mariinsky II Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia by Diamond Schmitt Architects with KP ViPS

↑ Palais de la Musique et des Congrès Strasbourg in Strasbourg, France by dietrich.untertrifaller architekten

↑ BLUEBARN Theatre in Omaha, NE by Actual Architecture Co.; Photo: Paul Crosby

↑ Shaftesbury Theatre in London, UK by Bennetts Associates; Photo: Peter Cook

↑ The Theatre School, DePaul University in Chicago, IL by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects; Photo: Jeff Goldberg/Esto

↑ Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, CA by SPF:architects

↑ Theatre Agora in Lelystad, The Netherlands by UNSt...

What if a stage could transform and morph to complement the music and dancers around it?

2013-11-11T12:27:00-05:00

The Principals, a Greenpoint-based design studio, set off to explore that intersection of interactive design and technology with an art installation for MoMA PS1's summer Warm Up series. Hit the jump to see how the Spatium Yamamoto installation grooved to the beat for an unforgettable, psychedelic experience this past summer.

The Principals presented their latest interactive installation closing out MoMA PS1's Summer Warm Up series.

OMA’s Stage Set for the Ancient Greek Theater in Syracuse, Italy

2012-05-14T13:40:00-04:00

Over the weekend, OMA’s design for the stage set at the historic Greek Theater in Syracuse, Sicily, was inaugurated with the performance of Aeschylus’s Prometheus Unbound, directed by Claudio Longhi. The scenography features three temporary architectural devices that reinterpret the spaces of the theater, which dates from the 5th century BCE.

Winners of the 2011 DawnTown Miami Floating Stage Competition

2011-05-04T13:25:00-04:00

Five winners have just been announced at the 2011 edition of DawnTown Miami. The annual architecture ideas competition seeks to bring creative, innovative, and inspiring new solutions to Downtown Miami and to the City of Miami at large.

Now in its fourth year, DawnTown partnered with a local historic preservation group to help bring prominence to an early piece of Miami's modern architecture period. The competition invited designers to envision a complimenting structure to the Miami Marine Stadium, aiming to make it a great event space once again -- paired with a new Floating Stage.