Center, take the arts at Princeton University to even greater heights by significantly expanding the performance, rehearsal and teaching spaces for the arts in new, state-of-the-art facilities. The complex creates a new campus gateway, shaping campus space while maximizing porosity and movement.
Photography: Paul Warchol
Lewis Arts Complex, designed by Steven Holl Architects in partnership with BNIM, brings together the Lewis Center for the Arts? Programs in Dance, Theater, Music Theater, and the Princeton Atelier, and the Department of Music?s expansion of its instructional and research facilities in the New Music Building. The complex comprises the Wallace Dance Building and Theater; the Arts Tower, which includes the Hurley Gallery, administrative offices and additional studios; and the New Music Building. The three buildings are integrated below ground in a Forum, an 8,000 square-foot open indoor gathering space that serves the various arts venues in the complex. Above the Forum is an outdoor plaza with a reflecting pool. Skylights in the pool filter natural light into the Forum below. Photography: Paul Warchol
Encouraging curiosity and interaction, the new arts plaza have to overlook views into the dance and theater practice spaces and the orchestral rehearsal space. As an open public invitation, this gateway space aims to connect the local community to the University The Wallace Dance Building and Theater is developed according to the idea of a ?thing within a thi...