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Site
A 3-acre site in the newly created Arts District, a 20-block area adjacent to Dallas' central business area
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Dallas, TexasGross Floor Area
Total:
485,000 s/f
Concert hall:
260,000 s/f
Below grade garage:
225,000 s/fClient
The City of Dallas and The Dallas Symphony Association,
Dallas, Texas Time Frame
Planning: 1/82–
Construction: 10/85–
(delayed 18 months by site acquisition)
Completion: 9/89 |
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The Morton H. Meyerson
Symphony Center |
| Dallas, Texas
Completed 1989 |
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A 2,200-seat concert hall to house the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as well as guest performances, concerts and recitals
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Click on image to enlarge Meyerson Symphony Center, one of only a few world-class concert halls in existence, was undertaken to establish Dallas as an international cultural center while revitalizing the city and anchoring its emerging downtown Arts District. The solution to these different but related functions involves two primary components: an inward-looking music chamber and an
outward-looking lobby.The concert hall is a traditional 2,000-seat shoebox. Its form and shape result from a rigorous investigation into optimum capacity, ideal sight lines and acoustical excellence. Notwithstanding such technical constraints, the hall was designed to enhance the pleasure of making and of listening to music. Acoustical canopies over the orchestra are adjustable for perfected sound so that the hall can be used for symphonic music, but also recitals, concerts, ensemble and
solo performances. In contrast to the necessarily hermetic performance hall, the intricately glazed lobby with its restaurant, outdoor garden and sculpture court, provides an inviting place for the public to congregate when performances are not in progress. Inclined toward the skyline and transparent by day and night, it reaches out to a much larger public than those attending performances. |
| Performance hall, Grand Lobby, 180-seat restaurant, prefunction spaces, 2-story musicians' wing, 4-story administration wing, outdoor sculpture garden, garden court, monumental public art, underground parking for 140 cars
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| 1994 |
| | Building Stone Institute: Annual Tucker Award |
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| National Commercial Builders Council:
Award of Excellence |
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| Concrete Industry Board:
Award of Merit for Out of Area Project
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| Associated Builders & Contractors of Texas:
Commendation for Excellence in Construction |
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| The City of Dallas: Dallas Urban Design Award |
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I. M. Pei & Partners services |
| Site Selection; Complete Architectural Services; Interior Design |
| Leslie E. Robertson Associates, New York, NY |
| Mechanical / Electrical |
| Edwards and Zuck, New York, NY |
| Artec Consultants, Inc., New York, NY |
| Jules Fisher & Paul Marantz, New York, NY |
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