Awarded

2009
USITT Merit Award for Design

2007
AZRE magazine ‘RED’ Award – Most Innovative Design

2007
American Society of Landscape
Architects – General Design Honor Award

2006
Urban Land Institutes 10 Best Projects
in the Western Hemisphere

2006
Excellence in Masonry Award

2006
International Interior Design Association –
Honor Award for Public/Institutional Projects

2005
Valley Forward Association Crescordia
Award: Site Development and, Landscape Urban Plazas

2005
Valley Forward Association Crescordia
Award: Art in Public Places

2005
Valley Forward Association Merit
Award – Buildings and Structures: Public Assembly Place

2005
Southwest Contractor Best of Award – Best Public
Building Project over $5 million

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Mesa Arts Center - Mesa, Arizona

This eclectic project is the cornerstone of a downtown revival effort for the City of Mesa. The
seven-acre performing, visual arts and arts education campus is the largest such venue in the state of Arizona, and it embraces a wide variety of programs: four theaters ranging in size from 99 seats to 1,600; 14 visual and performing arts classrooms; and five art galleries constructed below ground. Each theater features superb acoustics and state-of-the-art theatrical systems that allow shows of every type to shine.

The Shadow Walk, a grand promenade that curves between the theater building and the education and contemporary arts buildings, incorporates landscaping, trellises and large tensile fabric canopies that soar above the site to create its shifting array of shadows. Water features, such as a 300-foot-long boulder-filled arroyo, celebrate the urban oasis theme.
This project was built in collaboration with BOORA Architects