Theater architecture

The site where Bjarke Ingel's firm BIG will build a new national theatre in Tirana has been subject to anti-government protests.

Image 29 of 36 from gallery of Yada Theater / goa. Photograph by goa

Image 15 of 25 from gallery of Manuelle Gautrand to Revamp Paris' Alésia Cinema with Hundreds of LED "Pixels". Photograph by KDSL

Israeli firm Chyutin Architects have won a competition to build this museum that will bridge over a sunken garden in Jerusalem. The Museum of Tolerance will sit on the border between the built-up city and Independence Park. The museum, which houses a theatre, hall, restaurant and exhibition spaces, is clad in stone with a curtain

The new 520-seat Glenn Massay Theater, located on the University of Alaska's Mat-Su College campus, is able to host a variety of events including plays, musicals, lectures, conferences, concerts, competitions, festivals, benefits, recitals, movie screenings, receptions, and more. The mission of the theater is to provide a state-of-the-art facility for the MSC campus and the Mat-Su Valley community to present their ideas and creative endeavors to the public. It is a venue of education and…

Image 37 of 47 from gallery of Tobin Center for the Performing Arts / LMN + Marmon Mok. Site Plan

Completed in 2019 in Rooty Hill, Australia. Images by John Gollings. The Sydney Coliseum Theatre is a 2000-seat multi-mode performance venue located in burgeoning Western Sydney. The coliseum’s form is distinctive; a...

Theater’s ability to bring people together across boundaries has made it an important force in urban life since ancient times. Studio Gang’s design for Glencoe’s Writers Theatre is intended to maximize this potential for a twenty-first-century theater company, creating an architecture that energizes the daily life of its community and becomes an exciting, region-wide cultural destination.

Image 38 of 47 from gallery of Tobin Center for the Performing Arts / LMN + Marmon Mok. Main Plan

Image 17 of 18 from gallery of Gyeongju Arts Center / Samoo Architects & Engineers. Third Floor Plan

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Image 31 of 55 from gallery of Yangzhou Grand Canal Theatre / TJAD. Photograph by SFAP

The Tyrone Guthrie Theater | docomomo united states

Whilst the three theatres within the Lyric Theatre Complex draw their own distinct identities from the types of performing arts to which they cater, their designs follow a unified approach essential to both creating a complementary family of theatres and a coherent building. Each theatre therefore has its own distinct colour which relates to its function. This colour is not only applied in the auditoriums, but also in the correlating foyers, thus also acting as a means of wayfinding.

In another competition win announced this week, Snøhetta was selected to renovate the historic Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Nanterre, France. The avant-garde theater was first established in the late 1960s and its current building first opened in 1976. So far, Snøhetta has released only...