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New stage for a city : designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center / text, Michael Webb ; foreword, Judith Jamison.
LIBRA NA6835.N47 N488 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, Michael, 1937-
- Series:
- Building monograph series
- [Building monograph series]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark, N.J.).
- Centers for the performing arts--New Jersey--Newark.
- Centers for the performing arts.
- Theater architecture--New Jersey--Newark.
- Theater architecture.
- Buildings--New Jersey--Newark.
- Buildings.
- New Jersey--Newark.
- Centros para artes escénicas--Nueva Jersey.
- Teatros.
- Local Subjects:
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark, N.J.).
- Centers for the performing arts--New Jersey--Newark.
- Theater architecture--New Jersey--Newark.
- Centros para artes escénicas--Nueva Jersey.
- Teatros.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm.
- Other Title:
- Designing the New Jersey Performing Arts Center
- Place of Publication:
- Mulgrave, Vic. : Images Pub., 1998.
- Summary:
- The Performing Arts Center, designed by Los Angeles architect Barton Myers, is the focal point of a cultural district intended to stimulate the revitalization of downtown Newark, New Jersey. Based on a traditional opera house configuration, with a proscenium and full stage house, the seats are arranged on a parterre and in four tiers around the orchestra level.
- Contents:
- A tool for urban renewal
- Building a creative team
- Collaborating on the design
- Acoustics and structure
- Challenge of construction
- Architecture of the center
- The road ahead.
- Notes:
- Series statement on jacket.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Webb, Michael, 1937- New stage for a city.
- ISBN:
- 1875498915
- 9781875498918
- OCLC:
- 39291167
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