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To Honor Architecture Winners

Two outstanding performance spaces, one in Texas and one in the United Kingdom, will received Honor awards from the USITT Architecture Awards program in 2012. An additional 10 projects will be recognized with Merit awards.

• The AT&T Performing Arts Center Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas is an Honor winner. Architect was REX/OMA with associate architect Kendall Heaton Associates, Inc. Theatre consultant was Theatre Projects Consultants with DHB B.V as acoustical consultant.     
• Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres Transformation, Waterside at Stratford upon Avon, United Kingdom will also receive an Honor award. Architects for the project were Bennetts Associates with Charcoalblue as theatre consultant and Acoustic Dimensions as acoustical consultants.

The awards will be presented at a special session of the Architecture Commission on Friday, March 30 at the 2012 Annual Conference & Stage Expo. The Institute has invited representatives of all 13 winning projects to participate.

Merit award winners are:

• Four Seasons Centre of the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario Canada; Diamond and Schmitt Architects; Fisher Dachs Associates, theatre consultant; Sound Space Design, sound consultant.
• Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Cheltenham, United Kingdom; Foster Wilson Architects; Theatre Projects Consultants, theatre consultant; Paul Gillieron Acoustic Design, sound consultant.
• Francis Marion University Performing Arts Center, Florence, South Carolina; Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, architect; FW Architects, Inc., associate architect; Theatre Consultants Collaborative, LLC, theatre consultant; Akustiks, sound consultant.
• New York City Center, New York, New York; Ennead Architects, architect; Fisher Dachs Associates, theatre consultant; Kirkegaard Associates, sound consultant.
• Dancing Water Theater at City of Dreams, Macao SAR, China; Pei Partnership Architects LLP, design architect; P&T Group; executive architect; Franco Dragone Entertainment Group, theatre production; Theatre Projects Consultants, theatre consultant; Wilson, Crockett & Associates, Ltd., acoustical consultant.
• Rose Center for the Arts, Longview, Washington; Opsis Architecture, architect; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, theatre consultant; Sparling Acoustical, acoustical consultant.
• Visual and Performing Arts Village, Aptos, California; HGA Architects and Engineers, architect; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, theatre consultant; Sparling Acoustical, acoustical consultant.
• BodyVox Dance Center, Portland, Oregon; Boora Architects, architect; The Shalleck Collaborative, Inc., theatre consultant.
• Santa Barbara Bowl, Santa Barbara, California; Handel Architects, design architect; DesignARC, Inc., executive architect; Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, theatre consultant; Jaffe Holden, acoustical consultant; Van Atta Associates, landscape architect; Howard and Van Sande Structural Consultants, Inc., structural engineer.
• David L. Kurtz Center for the Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Voith & Mactavish Architects, LLP, architects; Robert Davis Associates, theatre consultant; Marshall/KMK, acoustical consultant.

Awards were selected based on creative image, contextual resonance, community contribution, exploration of new technologies, and functional operation of backstage and audience spaces.

Jurors for the 2012 Architecture Awards program included Joseph Mobilia, associate principal with FDA where he has been project manager and has led the planning and programming for much of FDA’s college and university work; and Mark Holden, FASA, who is a principal with Jaffe Holden where he is chairman and lead designer of acoustics. William Murray, AIA, guides the program as the Architecture Commission’s Vice-Commissioner for Awards. 

For a complete list of all sessions planned by the Architecture Commission and all USITT’s Commissions, visit www.usitt.org/Conference/Sessions. To register for the Conference, visit www.usitt.org/Conference/Registration