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Cornell Arts + Entertainment Complex
Cornell Arts + Entertainment Complex
Joplin, MO, United States
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Cornell Arts + Entertainment Complex
Joplin, MO, United States
The new Harry M. Cornell Arts & Entertainment Complex serves as the new state-of-the-art home for the Spiva Center for the Arts, the region’s premier visual arts destination, and Connect2Culture, a community arts agency and performing arts presenter. DLR Group’s design is inspired by the natural lead and zinc formations mined in Joplin. The dynamic interplay of mass and void, as well as the variety of surface finishes in these formations and the building, provide an everchanging dance of light over time. All interior spaces are arranged compactly around the theater to ensure efficient construction and acoustic isolation, while also creating unlimited opportunities for intentional and accidental synergies between the performing and visual arts under one roof. The 450-seat end stage performance hall is fully convertible to a flat floor continuous with the stage to host a limitless array of event types. Positioned between the performance hall and the exterior “town green,” the stage—the heart of the facility—opens to the outside and serves a 1,500-seat amphitheater. The front and back of house spaces have been designed to support indoor, outdoor, and simultaneous indoor/outdoor events.
Located on a 2.5-acre site, the new complex features new galleries that meet the Smithsonian Institution’s standards for traveling exhibits and a 450-seat indoor multi-purpose performance hall. The highly flexible 1,500-person capacity outdoor event lawn will host a wide range of events and serve as an amphitheater while using the full stagehouse as its main stage. The mechanical system has been designed to provide energy savings up to 43% above the ASHRAE required standards. By infusing the project with the highest level of programming flexibility while cost effectively rooting the design in its place, the Cornell Complex will serve its community well, and sustainably, for decades to come.
Located on a 2.5-acre site, the new complex features new galleries that meet the Smithsonian Institution’s standards for traveling exhibits and a 450-seat indoor multi-purpose performance hall. The highly flexible 1,500-person capacity outdoor event lawn will host a wide range of events and serve as an amphitheater while using the full stagehouse as its main stage. The mechanical system has been designed to provide energy savings up to 43% above the ASHRAE required standards. By infusing the project with the highest level of programming flexibility while cost effectively rooting the design in its place, the Cornell Complex will serve its community well, and sustainably, for decades to come.
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