Modern performance arts center with a facade of vertical wood paneling, gray concrete, and reddish accents, featuring an angular entrance canopy. Lush green trees frame the building under a bright blue sky with wispy white clouds, with distant mountains visible in the background. A street sign for S Cache is near the entrance.

Performing Arts Pavilion

Jackson, Wyoming

Service

Architecture

Type

Public + Cultural

Location

Jackson, Wyoming

Photography

Ron Johnson
Paul Warchol

For this project CLB paired with Stephen Dynia Architects to form the Arts Design Collaborative. The two firms worked in partnership to develop the Performing Arts Pavilion of the Center for the Arts, with CLB serving as Executive Architect and Stephen Dynia Architects serving as Design Architect.

Contemporary building illuminated at twilight, featuring a wood and glass facade under an overhanging canopy with recessed lights. An illuminated pathway with steps and railings leads to the entrance, set against a deep blue evening sky and natural landscape.

The Center for the Arts project was undertaken in cooperation with the Town of Jackson and Teton County to create a campus that brought together twenty local arts and education organizations. The 39,000-square-foot Performing Arts Wing complements the 40,000-square-foot Arts and Education Wing and includes a 525-seat proscenium theater, lobby, rehearsal facilities, scene shop, and other administrative and support spaces. The theater is designed to function flexibly, so that the different disciplines represented under the Center banner are able to use the facility to showcase their productions. In addition to accommodating a wide variety of performance types, the theater can also modify its seating capacity to ensure an intimate experience for every audience.

The theater seating expresses an artistic vision for the Performance Wing, with the underside of the seating arena exposed and visible from the lobby below. Clad in wood, the spherical sculptural form hovers above the entrance hall, creating a dramatic focal point for the foyer space and functioning as an icon for the pavilion.

Modern Center for the Arts building with a red, concrete, and slatted wood facade, featuring CENTER FOR THE ARTS signage, set against a snow-covered mountain with ski slopes and pine trees.

A modern, multi-level lobby filled with people mingling at an event, featuring high ceilings with warm wooden panels, expansive windows overlooking a forested outdoor area, a prominent staircase, an elevated walkway, and a bar on the lower level.

Project Leads

Eric Logan FAIA

Partner

Steve Jakub AIA, LEED AP

Senior Project Architect

Project Collaborators

Executive Architect

CLB Architects

Design Architect

DYNIA Architects

Collaborator

Arts Design Collaborative