Marshall Family Performing Arts Center Addison, Texas Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism

摘要

Among the notable design elements that give an air of distinction to the Greenhill School, an elite preparatory academy in the North Dallas suburb of Addison, are the peacocks-peafowl, if you want to get technical about it-that wander its sprawling campus, unhindered. These colorful pheasants have a tendency to upstage the school's architecture, which includes an 1855 farmhouse and new works by the likes of Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects, Lake|Flato, and the pioneering Texas modernist O'Neil Ford. The newest addition to this collection, the $26.5 million Marshall Family Performing Arts Center, is not likely to be overshadowed by birds, however resplendent. Designed by New York-based architects Weiss/Manfredi Architecture/Landscape/Urbanism, the 65,ooo-square-foot building at once hugs the landscape and cantilevers out dramatically from it, toward the center of the Greenhill campus. "One of the objects was to shape the building so the campus moves up and into the building, and the building frames views out onto the campus," says co-founder Michael Manfredi, FAIA.