Education

Owner:

Tulane University

Design:

Waggonner & Ball

Size:

25,000 square feet

Budget:

$3,200,000

Completion:

1996

Tulane Theater and Dance

The architect’s challenge in Tulane’s Theater and Dance Building was to attractively blend withthe existing Newcomb Campus in the area left open by Newcomb’s original architect, James Grant Rogers. Nestled inbetween an existing classroom building, a city street, and age old oak trees, the building closed in this open area both functionally and handsomely.

The building is a 3 story structure with an adjoining theater prop shop building. Devoted entirely to dance, the top floor exterior walls are an all glass full-height window walls, set under a slate gabled roof with a two foot overhang. The other two floors are masonry and aluminum window construction. They house administrative and classroom areas in addition to seperate dance instruction area, a theater prop construction classroom, and a comlete costume storage and sewing area. The building is stell framed with a stained concrete entrance hall and monumental entrance stairs from the existing grade to the first floor. The building was completed in ten months in time for school commencement in 1996.