Performing arts venue takes historic cues

摘要

A 60,000-square-foot addition and renovation to Jessie Eccles Quinney Ballet Centre in Salt Lake City was designed to be a unified expression that respects the original Capitol Theatre's history and creates a timeless companion. The new building edifice takes cues from Capitol Theatre. It relates to the scale, proportion and color palette of the original building. The three-part elevation of the Capitol Theatre's base, mid-section and crown is seen in the new building. The lobby walls mimic in orthogonal steel and glass the two-story arched stone arcade of the Capitol Theatre. The brick pattern is reinterpreted in the diagonal metal panel rainscreen system with color-changing LED backlighting.