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Shaw Center for the ArtsTake a spicy mixture of the visual and performing arts; add a wide range of support from university,governm ent and civic sources; cover with an unusual application of glass and stir; serves 250,000.
That is the "recipe" for the Shaw Center for the Arts, which Baton Rouge, Louisiana is counting on to lift its civic profile.
This building might seem more likely in Rotterdam or Paris than in a medium-sized, generally conservative southern U.S. city.
Its form was driven by a complex program that sought to accommodate the two lead "anchor" institutions, the Louisiana State University Museum of Art and the Manship Performing Arts Center.
The drama of building's exterior massing is heightened by a facade clad in hundreds of multilength cast-glass channels.
The Shaw Center is said to be the largest building in the United States to be completely clad in U-shaped cast glass and the first to use the channel glass as the rain screen for a wall system.
The Shaw Center, which opened in early March, 2005, is the result of a collaboration between Schwartz/Silver Architects as design architects, New Orleans-based Eskew, Dumez and Ripple as executive architects, and Baton Rouge-based Jerry M. Campbell and Associates as associate architects.
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