Winspear Opera House

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is one of four venues in the AT&T Performing Arts Center located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas,... more

by Joan Carroll

Title

Winspear Opera House

Artist

Joan Carroll

Medium

Photograph - Digital Art

Description

The Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House is one of four venues in the AT&T Performing Arts Center located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). Designed as a 21st-century reinterpretation of the traditional opera house, the Winspear seats 2,200 (with a capacity of 2,300) in a traditional horseshoe configuration. The Annette and Harold Simmons Signature Glass Facade wraps around the building, creating a transparency between the opera house and the surrounding Performance Park. An 84-foot (26 m) wide section of the glass facade is retractable to a height of 23 feet (7.0 m), literally opening up the Grand Lobby, Cafe and Box Circle-level Restaurant to Performance Park. The Grand Portico, radiating from the opera house on all sides, provides shade over 3 acres (12,000 m2) of the Performance Park. The solar canopy's louvers are arranged at fixed angles following the path of the sun. By eliminating most direct sunlight on the facade and by creating a cooler microclimate around the building, the canopy significantly reduce the energy requirements of the Winspear Opera House.

FEATURED PHOTO, Life is What Happens group, 3/29/15

FEATURED PHOTO, The Road To Self Promotion group, 2/14/15

FEATURED PHOTO,The World We See group, 2/14/15

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February 13th, 2015