Construction is underway for The David E. and Stacey L. Goel Center Center for Creativity and Performance. After 40 years of using the Loeb Drama Center for performances, Harvard’s American Repertory Theater will now have its own space. The Center will feature sustainable materials, multiple performance spaces, and a focus on well-being and biodiversity. The facility aims to set new standards in cultural architecture with principles of openness, flexibility, collaboration, sustainability, and regenerative design. The project team includes: American Repertory Theater, Harvard University, Haworth Tompkins, ARC/ Architectural Resources Cambridge, and Charcoalblue.
“The design responds to a world in transition, one in which cultural organizations have needed to rapidly evolve towards a more holistic mission in response to public health crises, movements for greater equality, growing political polarization, and climate and biodiversity emergencies. A.R.T. is seeking to achieve more with less intensive resources. Made largely of timber and incorporating leading edge regenerative design thinking, the building is designed to be more supple, more porous, more adaptable, and more responsive.” –Haworth Tompkins
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