Wallis Annenberg Arts Center, Beverly Hills

Wallis Annenberg Center

Rehabilitation and redevelopment of the former Beverly Hills Post Office and the creation of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (“the Wallis”) design by Studio Pali Fekete architects – prize from The California Preservation Design Awards.

Teatre La Massa, Vilassar de Dalt, Catalunya

Teatre La Massa Vilassar de Dalt

Design: Rafael Guastavino Moreno

This impressive Catalan building has circular structure with a rectangular stage area. The distinguishing feature of the building is the 17-m diameter Catalan vault over the main hall. The shallow dome’s structure is a double layer of ceramic tiles.

Performing Arts Center of the World Trade Center NYC

Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center

Design: REX, Architects. Images of the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the WTC – an 80,000 sqft building that will serve as a major new addition to New York’s cultural landscape, producing and premiering works of theater, dance, music, musical theater, opera, and film.

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan

Taipei Performing Arts Center in Taiwan

Why have the most exciting theatrical events of the past 100 years taken place outside the spaces formally designed for them? Can architecture transcend its own dirty secret, the inevitability of imposing limits on what is possible?

Everyman and Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool

Everyman Theatre 1

Design: Haworth Tompkins Architects. Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, whose acting alumni includes Pete Postlethwaite and Julie Walters, has undergone a complete structural and artistic renovation thanks to the Everyman creative team, architects Haworth Tompkins and theatre consultants Charcoalblue.

Structural Archaeology Belo Horizonte

Structural Archaeology

Design: Vazio S/A architects. Considered for a time Brazil’s largest cinema, Cine Theatro Brasil was built in 1932 at an important intersection in downtown Belo Horizonte. Structural Archeology sought to activate this now unused space, coating the roof framework with a translucent screen, and turning the bleak void into an active venue.

Shanxi Grand Theater Taiyuan: Changfeng

Shanxi Grand Theatre

Design: Arte Charpentier Architectes. Taiyuan is situated in the province of Shanxi in the northeast of China. In the centre of a basin overhung by two mountains ranges – the city is currently undergoing rapid development, as a result imposing reflections on its planning and scope.

New Lucerne Theater Building, Switzerland

New Lucerne Theater Building

Innovative New Performing Arts Venue in European Cultural Hub

Arup help project stakeholders define a facility that supports exploration and experimentation in the future of dramatic performances with music.

York Theatre Royal Building, Arts Development

York Theatre Royal Building at dusk

Design: De Matos Ryan, architects. Founded in 1744, one of the UK’s oldest producing theatres reopens its doors following a £6m redevelopment. The project has transformed the building to serve a 21st century audience.

King William Performing Arts District in Hamilton, Ontario

King William Performing Arts District in Hamilton

Design: DPAI Architecture Inc. The King William Performing Arts District Concept Plan proposes the creation of an integrated, multi-use district centred on Theatre Aquarius with a mixture of performing arts, retail, commercial and residential.

Summer Theatre Szczecin, Poland

Summer Theatre in Szczecin

Design: Flanagan Lawrence. The brief called for design proposals to maximise the flexibility of the 1976-designed theatre for a variety of performances on the stage, and to add a new roof to enclose both the stage and the audience.

The Wave Open Air Community Theatre

The Wave open air community theatre in Valparaiso

Sitio Eriazo is a collective whose members are theatre school graduates who recover empty, abandoned, urban spaces in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003, and put them to community use.