First Collegiate Monolithic Performing Arts Center
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September 24, 2003
renderings by Rick
Crandall
by Kris Garrison
North Central Texas College in Gainseville, Texas will be the first to use a Monolithic Dome design for their new performing arts center. The Monolithic Dome will be a unique landmark structure for both the Gainesville Campus and the community.
The 130-foot diameter dome will include a conventional theater space with seating for 400, a proscenium stage, in addition to classrooms, labs, rehearsal rooms, scene shop and other features.
Before approving the construction of the Monolithic Dome, college officials
visited several comparable large Monolithic
Dome church sanctuaries, including Living
Word Bible Church in Phoenix, Arizona. They were impressed with the
engineering and design of the domes and got excited about the acoustics
as well.
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Target date for opening of the new performing arts center is January 2005,
with groundbreaking set for late October of this year and completion of
the building expected sometime in the late fall of 2004.
Related Links:
- http://www.nctc.edu
- It's A Hit: NCTC's Monolithic Dome Performing Arts Center
- The Sound of Quality in Monolithic Domes
- Architect Rick Crandall
- Monolithic Dome Schools Now Playing: The 21st Century Movie Theater
- Stardome Studios: An Age of New Beginnings
- LASERDOME
- Convention Centers: Losers or Producers
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