#Winspear opera house parking garage series

This inside-outside transitional space extends the building out to the public realm, the new grand plaza, which is further extended when the whole east faade is opened up with its vertical sliding glass panels. Responding to the specific demands of the Dallas climate, an expansive canopy provides sheltered respite from the hot sun and creates its own microclimate and is an integral part of the buildings overall energy strategy. An opera house for the 21st Century, the building is democratic, accessible and sustainable.

#Winspear opera house parking garage series

It inverts the closed, hierarchical form creating a transparent, publicly welcoming series of spaces that wrap around the rich red drum of the 2,200-seat auditorium. The Winspear Opera House will be a radical rethinking of the traditional opera house. The Winspear Opera House will be one of two principal performance venues within the Center and will stage opera, ballet, music-theatre and other large-scale productions. The venues comprising the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts will represent the highest quality in design, acoustics, technical and creative support and audience amenities, including the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, designed by Foster and Partners. The ceremony at the Centers future site in the Dallas Arts District included remarks by Academy Award-winning actor and Texan Tommy Lee Jones and many Texas government officials and other dignitaries. Foster and Partners design for Winspear Opera House on scheduleĭALLAS (November 10, 2005) Groundbreaking ceremonies for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts were held Thursday morning, November 10, signaling the beginning of construction of the $275 million project.