Winspear Opera House BW
by Joan Carroll
Title
Winspear Opera House BW
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, Urban Images group, 3/15/15
FEATURED PHOTO, Black and White Photography group, 2/14/15
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February 13th, 2015
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