Mesa Arts Center

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The Mesa Arts Center is a 250,000+ square-foot performing and visual arts complex located in downtown Mesa, Arizona, just outside of Phoenix, Arizona.

Completed in 2005, the $95 million facility is the largest such center in the state.

The center contains four performance venues of varying sizes with a combined total 2,436 seats. There is also five "galleries" with a total of 5,500 sq ft (510 m²) of exhibition space and 14 visual and performing arts studios. It also has classrooms, informal performance areas, and outdoor gardens.

[edit] Architecture

The architecture of the entire complex has a modern direction, with sharp, jagged angles, canted walls, sloping roofs, glass walls, and, regional colors and materials. The complex was designed as collaboration between the architectural firms Broome, Oringdulph, Randolph, and Associates (BOORA) of Portland, Oregon, and DWL Architects + Planners of Phoenix, Arizona. Martha Schwartz Inc. was the landscape architect firm for the project.