This new center for the Onassis Foundation includes a 880-seat theatre for orchestral concerts, theatre performances, opera, dance, cinema, lectures, and high-profile conferences. It also contains an intimate 220-seat theatre for smaller musical, theatre or dance performances, lectures, special audiovisual projections (multimedia and virtual reality), and conferences.

A Saudi Aramco initiative, this one-of-a-kind cultural destination was designed to build cultural bridges, encouraging creativity, inspire young minds and empower talent. A hub of knowledge and culture, the  1.1 million square foot center features an Idea Lab, Library, The Knowledge Tower, Museum, Children’s Museum, Archives, and three event and performance spaces. A 900-seat multipurpose theatre features  a movable stage to accommodate over 80 musicians for orchestral performances, as well as a full fly tower, robust support spaces, and 62 motorized curtains. The theatre’s flexibility allows the artistic programming to change as audience expectations develop. To support education films, lecture and the emerging Saudi film industry, we designed an intimate 300-seat cinema. The center’s main conference space, The Great Hall, is a 17,222 square foot flexible spaces, with performance lighting, robust rigging systems, and flexible staging,capable of presenting large-scale travelling exhibitions, social events, banquets and conferences The Great Hall is our window to the world, housing international touring exhibitions, festivals, conferences and events.

Both an icon for Kansas City and the architectural world. The 285,000 square foot center includes a theatre for opera, musical, and dance productions, and a symphonic concert hall. Theatre Projects was involved with the facility’s design from the earliest stages, helping divert the project direction away from one large multipurpose hall toward the creation of two world-class venues. The two halls are extremely intimate for both audience and performers and they share an extraordinarily robust collection of support spaces which run the length of the building.