TDA designed all architectural lighting for this new 84,0000-sf performing arts center including a three-tiered, 600-seat opera theater, teaching studios, classrooms, practice rooms, scene shop, costume shop, and dressing rooms. The grand entry foyer is a large, barrel-vaulted, classically influenced space. TDA designed large scale modern, with a historical nod, custom chandeliers to provide sparkle and illuminate the coffered ceiling.  A series of accent lights provide flexibility for speaker lighting for special events. Patrons travel between levels via a network of staircases, each with a different experience designated with unusual and vibrant colors: bright reds, blues, and yellows. To access the Recital Hall from the foyers, patrons must travel through sound-and-light boxes dramatically illuminated with diagonal deep blue LED lines on walls and ceilings. In the Recital Hall, customized metallic chandeliers add sparkle and an intimate, dramatic scale. Tobia Scarpa wall sconces, customized with linear LED sources for more uniform illumination, punctuate the perimeter. Additional ambient house lighting is provided from led spotlights integrated into the upper ceiling.

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