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Shaw Center for the Arts - AIA National Honor Award

 

Article from AIA National Honor Award - 2008
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2008 Institute Honor Awards for Architecture

Project:
Shaw Center for the Arts
Baton Rouge

Architect:
Schwartz/Silver Architects, Inc.
Boston

Owner:
Shaw Center LLC
Baton Rouge

Notes of Interest
This cultural arts center combines a university museum of art with spaces for the university’s School of Art studio arts programs and an important regional center for the performing arts. Funding was achieved by combining the resources of the university, the city and state governments, and local arts organizations. The project is located on one and a half city blocks and incorporates an historic older building, the "Auto Hotel."

Jury Comments
The project is nicely detailed and works well in its urban context. You can look through the building to the historic water tower, and the rooftop space is accessible to the public without visitors having to patronize the rooftop restaurant, creating another public/community space. The gallery spaces play off of the industrial nature of the parking garage across the street and the interior office spaces meld with the interior museum space, creating offices with interior channel glass walls.