Project Team: Brian Ackerman?, John Camfield, ?Venelin Kokalev, Ling Meng, Michael Motlagh, Francis Yan, Harald Merk, Berit Wooge, Bibianka Fehr, Dan Du, Nicole Hu, Robert Sandilands, Bonnie Thom?, Amirali Javidan, ?Shinobu Homma, ?Derek Kaplan, ?Marcos Hui, Rose Chung

Working closely with the client, the architects focused on incorporating Artistic Director Molly Smith’s idea of ‘a theater for all that is passionate, exhuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit.’

A new theater, subsurface administration, parking and support spaces, rehearsal halls and a free span roof with bars and a cafe enclosed by a one of a kind wood/glass cable supported curtain-wall system.  Arena Stage has a free form roof and a 140′ cantilever.  Over 15,000 cubic yards of architectural concrete was used, and a complex audio, theater, acoustic and MEP systems.

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• Architects

  Bing Thom Architects

• Location

  Washington, DC, United States

• Category

  Theater

• Principal

  Bing Thom, Michael Heeney

• Project Director

  James Brown

• Theater Consultant

  Fisher Dachs Associates

• Structural Engineer

  Fast & Epp

• Electrical Engineers

  Stantec, in association with Vanderweil Engineers

• Mechanical Engineers

  Yoneda & Associates

• Lighting Design

  William Lam

• Civil Engineers

  Wiles Mensch Corporation

• Acoustical Engineer

  Talaske

• Code Consultant

  LMDG in association with Koffel Associates

• Glazing Consultant

  RA Heintges & Associates

• General Contractor

  Clark Construction

• Construction Manager

  KCM, Paeonian

• Client

  Arena Stage

• Area

  200000.0 sqm

• Project Year

  2010

• Photographs

  Nic Lehoux