DEE AND CHARLES WYLY THEATER, USA, DALLAS, 2009 
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| Theater situated in the new Dallas Performing Arts Center |
By Iwan Baan© All rights reserved
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In the typical theater, the proliferation of front-of-house and back-of-house spaces threatens to strangle the auditorium itself, buffering the performance from the outside world. The compact, vertical orientation of the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, with its 12 storeys, allows support spaces to be stacked above and beneath the auditorium rather than wrapped around it. more... |
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FACT SHEET
Status: Completion: October 2009 Site: Dallas Arts District, Downtown Dallas, Texas USA Client: Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Program: 7,700m2 multi-form theatre with flexible performance configurations (proscenium, thrust, traverse, arena, and flat floor), a nominal seating capacity of 575, and full front-of-house and back-of-house facilities including administrative offices, rehearsal spaces, café, gift shop, cocktail bar, offices, costume shop, lobby, auditorium, stage support areas, mechanical rooms, production spaces and rooftop multipurpose space. COLLABORATORS Acoustics: DHV – Renz van Luxemburg, Ben Kok, Theo Raijmakers Accessibility: McGuire Associates – Kevin McGuire Constructability: McCarthy Construction – Gary Akin, Wayne Hendricks more... PRESS Financial Times, 23 October 2009 TIME Magazine, 22 October 2009 New York Times, 15 October 2009 Los Angeles Times, 7 October 2009 Dallas News, 31 August 2009 Dallas News, 16 August 2009 Kera, 25 February 2009 Designscene, 16 February 2009 more... |
CREDITS
Architects: REX/OMA
CLIENT STATEMENT
Principals: Joshua Prince-Ramus (partner in charge) and Rem Koolhaas Project architects: Erez Ella, Vincent Bandy, Tim Archambault, Vanessa Kassabian Team: Haviland Argo, Steve Chen, Dan Choi, Robert Donnelly, Selva Gurdogan, Jonathan Handel, Stine Hansen, Oke Hauser, Andrew Heid, Nahyun Hwang, Ashley Klein, Trine Kobbelvedt, Natalia Ibanez Lario, Soren Sigurd Larsen, Mads Kristensen, Filip Rem, Beatriz Ramo, Gro Sarauw, Max Schwitalla, Rooshad Shroff, Gregers Tang Thomsen, Lisa Tiedje, Angelica Trevino, Kristine Wander, Monika Wittig, Dolly Yarur "The creation of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is an investment in the cultural life of our city... Together with the Performance Park, the Center will become an exciting, seven-day-a-week destination that will animate Dallas and the region. This new Center ensures that future generations in Dallas and the region will have access to the best music, theatre, opera and dance from throughout the world." –Bill Lively, President and CEO of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. |
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