diskojoe
November 16th, 2009, 07:15 PM
Sorry about weak renders. they are all i could find. But project should be interesting.
http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ballet-solid.jpg
http://www.houstonballet.org/content/inline-images/New_Building/newbuilding1.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3781274990_48d2df171e_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/3781275042_3751ba3356_o.jpg
In a move designed to propel Houston Ballet to the next phase of its development, the company broke ground on July 15, 2009 on the Center for Dance, a new 115,000 square-foot facility located in downtown Houston at the intersection of Smith and Preston Streets. The building, which will cost $53 million, is set for completion in the spring of 2011.
The six-story building will boast nine dance studios, a black box dance laboratory for presentations as well as rehearsals, and artistic, administrative and support facilities for Houston Ballet and its Ben Stevenson Academy. The new facility will more than double the space that Houston Ballet has at its current home, located at 1916 West Gray in the Montrose section of Houston, which the company renovated in 1984 and features six dance studios.
The new structure will be the largest dance facility of its kind constructed in the United States. The Houston Chronicle has observed that the building "could be the most exciting new architecture Houston has seen in decades." (July 31, 2009)
The architect for the project is Marshall Strabala, director of design for Gensler, who has designed three of the world's tallest buildings, including China's 632-meter-tall Shanghai Tower, which is under construction, and 420-meter Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, as well as the 160-plus story Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Richard Maxwell is the project principal. The project manager is Irvine Team.
The co-chairs of the ongoing capital campaign are John C. Bass, Jesse H. Jones II & Anita B. Stude. (Mrs. Stude served as co-chairman of the campaign until her death in July 2009.)
The general contractor managing the construction is W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation.
Houston Ballet is America's fourth largest ballet company, an ensemble of 53 dancers with an annual budget of $17.7 million and an endowment of just under $46 million (as of July 31, 2009). Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the nation's best ballet companies," Houston Ballet has toured over the last decade to New York, London, Montreal, Hong Kong, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and to cities large and small across the United States.
Houston Ballet is deeply grateful for the generous philanthropic support received for this project. Please join us as we take Houston Ballet to the next level and make a major impact on the state of the arts in Houston.
http://swamplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/ballet-solid.jpg
http://www.houstonballet.org/content/inline-images/New_Building/newbuilding1.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3781274990_48d2df171e_o.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3486/3781275042_3751ba3356_o.jpg
In a move designed to propel Houston Ballet to the next phase of its development, the company broke ground on July 15, 2009 on the Center for Dance, a new 115,000 square-foot facility located in downtown Houston at the intersection of Smith and Preston Streets. The building, which will cost $53 million, is set for completion in the spring of 2011.
The six-story building will boast nine dance studios, a black box dance laboratory for presentations as well as rehearsals, and artistic, administrative and support facilities for Houston Ballet and its Ben Stevenson Academy. The new facility will more than double the space that Houston Ballet has at its current home, located at 1916 West Gray in the Montrose section of Houston, which the company renovated in 1984 and features six dance studios.
The new structure will be the largest dance facility of its kind constructed in the United States. The Houston Chronicle has observed that the building "could be the most exciting new architecture Houston has seen in decades." (July 31, 2009)
The architect for the project is Marshall Strabala, director of design for Gensler, who has designed three of the world's tallest buildings, including China's 632-meter-tall Shanghai Tower, which is under construction, and 420-meter Nanjing Greenland Financial Center, as well as the 160-plus story Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Richard Maxwell is the project principal. The project manager is Irvine Team.
The co-chairs of the ongoing capital campaign are John C. Bass, Jesse H. Jones II & Anita B. Stude. (Mrs. Stude served as co-chairman of the campaign until her death in July 2009.)
The general contractor managing the construction is W.S. Bellows Construction Corporation.
Houston Ballet is America's fourth largest ballet company, an ensemble of 53 dancers with an annual budget of $17.7 million and an endowment of just under $46 million (as of July 31, 2009). Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the nation's best ballet companies," Houston Ballet has toured over the last decade to New York, London, Montreal, Hong Kong, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and to cities large and small across the United States.
Houston Ballet is deeply grateful for the generous philanthropic support received for this project. Please join us as we take Houston Ballet to the next level and make a major impact on the state of the arts in Houston.