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The Portland Center for the Performing Arts (PCPA) represents the collaboration of more than 150 arts organizations, individuals, and citizens. In a joint venture with ELS and Barton Myers, Boora was retained to transform Portland’s 1928 Paramount Movie Theater, a historic landmark listed on the National Trust, and design a new 127,000-square-foot theater building on a sloping, L-shaped site with a footprint of only 30,000 square feet. |
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The renovation of the historic theater into the 2,776-seat Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall was the first phase of development, completed on a fast-track design and construction schedule. Creating a comfortable and functional home for live concert performances required expanding and restoring the lobby, adding new stage and backstage areas, and improving acoustics and fire/life safety. |
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The mass and scale of the New Theater Building, with theaters ranging in size from 125 to 960 seats, moderates between a busy downtown neighborhood at its front façade and a leafy, grassy urban park to the rear. The result is a contemporary music venue and concert hall, as well as a complex of theaters for dramatic arts joined by an outdoor plaza. |
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