G.W.Annenberg Performing Arts Centre
- Year
- 2017
- Type
- Cultural
- Status
- Built
- Location
- Reading, United Kingdom
Many institutes of learning now seek to educate through self-discovery, enabling students to consider what makes them who they are, so they may begin to take responsibility for their own development. The design for Wellington College’s new Cultural Quarter, consists of a new 900 seated, 1,200 in total capacity Performance Arts Centre and a 'cultural living room’, a space where students are inspired, and their education can flourish, both through formal and spontaneous performances. Beyond the project brief, the auditorium of the Performance Arts Centre was to overcome the obstacle of the ‘sunken effect’ of the existing theatre, caused by level differences in the terrain.
Many institutes of learning now seek to educate through self-discovery, enabling students to consider what makes them who they are, so they may begin to take responsibility for their own development. The design for Wellington College’s new Cultural Quarter, consists of a new 900 seated, 1,200 in total capacity Performance Arts Centre and a 'cultural living room’, a space where students are inspired, and their education can flourish, both through formal and spontaneous performances. Beyond the project brief, the auditorium of the Performance Arts Centre was to overcome the obstacle of the ‘sunken effect’ of the existing theatre, caused by level differences in the terrain.