Bing Thom’s new Arena Stage
There’s always a lot of talk in Washington about creating a “big tent” that embraces diversity, and now the capital finally has one—literally: architect Bing Thom’s new Arena Stage at the Mead Center, an arts complex—D.C.’s second-largest, after the Kennedy Center—that locates the company’s two preexisting landmark theaters and a new black-box stage, each of which offers different programming, behind 45-foot-high glass walls and beneath a sharply cantilevered 130-by-500-foot steel roof. Curtain up!
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This building is simply exquisite -- we need more stories on projects like these that go beyond the egos of the star-chitect -- that serve their clients and their communities with humility and beauty. Thank you Dwell and Marc for writing about this project.
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