Shaw Center for the Arts
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The Shaw Center for the Arts is a 125,000 square foot (12,000 m²) performing art venue and fine arts museum located at 100 Lafayette Street in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Center includes the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art Gallery, the 325-seat Manship Theatre, classrooms, a rooftop sushi restaurant, and a park. Among other collections, the museum includes the largest assemblage of Newcomb Pottery in the United States.
The skin of the Shaw Center for the Arts is made of translucent channel glass manufactured in Germany by Glasfabrik Lamberts [1]. The Shaw Center received the American Instutute of Architects Gulf States Honor Award in 2005 for its “aggressive concept with a good contrast of materials” and “effective mapping of façade upon the plaza” [2].
The center was built with both public and private funding. The Shaw Group was a major donor to Shaw Center for the Arts, and received the naming rights to the building, however the Shaw Center is neither owned by The Shaw Group nor do they share employees. Other major donors were the Manship families, the Pennington families and Lamar Advertising, which is based in Baton Rouge (Lamar and Reilly families).
The architects are
- Design Architect: Schwartz/Silver Architects, Boston, MA
- Executive Architect: Eskew + Dumez + Ripple, New Orleans, LA
- Associated Architect: Jerry M. Campbell & Associates, Baton Rouge, LA
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[edit] References
- Russel, A. (2005, May). Low rider. In Architecture, 94, 52–57.
- "Bendheim Wall Systems - Projects"
- "AIArchitect, July 11, 2005 - AIA Gulf States Honor 11 Stunning Works"
