Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects

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    East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

    Status

    Completed, 2011

    Size

    16,000 SF

    Client

    East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

    Scope

    Design

    Project Team

    Mark Cavagnero
    Laura Blake
    Ian Young
    Paul Davison
    Felicia Dunham
    Brandon Joo

    Project Collaborators

    Project Manager: Equity Community Builders, LLC
    Mechanical/Plumbing Engineer: LMR Consulting Mechanical Engineers
    Electrical Engineer: The Engineering Enterprise
    Structural Engineer: Jon Brody Structural Engineers
    Civil Engineer: Moran Engineering
    Lighting Consultant: Lightswitch, Inc.
    Acoustical Consultant: Charles M. Salter Associates
    Preservation Consultant: Preservation Architecture
    General Contractor: Oliver & Company, Inc.

    Description

    This community performing arts center is a nationally-recognized training and production center, dedicated to the underserved youth of the community which it serves. Located in a neighborhood known as the “Iron Triangle”, distinguished primarily for its chronic poverty and violence, the Center is a significant resource for the community and at the heart of a revitalization effort of downtown.  Reusing the historically-significant Winters Building, a former 1920’s dance hall, the facility has been transformed into a new urban center for music and dance.

    The project includes a complete new structure and build out of systems within the historic shell.  At the exterior, a new glass storefront wraps the first floor façade from along the two primary streets offering large, rhythmically-arranged openings to express the interior vitality of the center to passers-by, while complementing the historic exterior façade of the upper stories.

    Each of the three floors was designed for maximum flexibility for educational, performance, and administrative needs. The facility houses a raked-floor theater space seating 200-240 people, a flexible black-box theater, classrooms, practice studios and offices.  Along with the programmatic improvements, new structural, mechanical, and electrical systems are added to better support the facility’s intense public use. 

    New steel structure within the historic shell safely resists wind and earthquake loads and integrates a unique architectural detail and aesthetic into the various spaces.  Informed by the City of Richmond’s rich WWII shipyard history, the double-angle bracing and tapered gusset plates are finely detailed while boldly articulating the spirit of the center and its urban setting.

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    Recognition

    Awards

    Chicago Athenaeum Museum, Green Good Design Award, 2013
    Architizer, Special Mention Honoree, 2013
    Chicago Athenaeum Museum, American Architecture Award, 2012
    AIA California Council, Merit Award for Architecture, 2012
    AIA San Francisco, Historic Preservation Honor Award, 2012
    City of Richmond, Historic Preservation Award, 2012
    IIDA Northern California Chapter, Merit Award- Serve Category, 2012
    AIA East Bay, Honor Award, 2011

    Publications

    Architectural Record, March 2012
    San Francisco Chronicle, January 30, 2012
    San Francisco Chronicle, August 9, 2011
    Contra Costa Times, September 28, 2011
    Richmond Confidential, September 28, 2011