Renovation and expansion of historic 1929 opera hou more
Renovation and expansion of historic 1929 opera house (located beneath a 45-story skyscraper) in downtown Chiago. A small and little-used adjacent theater was demolished and a 7-level state-of-the-art backstage block was built within the shell, providing scenery-handling, storage, multiple rehearsal rooms and modernized dressing rooms and shops. A complete refurbishment of the front-of-house public spaces, acoustic and lighting improvements, new building systems and fire protection/life safety compliance were implemented. The project was executed from 1991 to 1996, with three 4-month construction windows for all demolition and construction, with no interruptions to the operations of the Lyric Opera schedule. Chicago Chapter and National AIA Design Awards, 1997 and 1998. less
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