Wolfe Center for the Arts / Snøhetta
The Wolfe Center for the Arts will be the first completed American project for the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta. The new structure is located on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The building design was led by Snøhetta architect Craig Dykers and will feature 93,000 square-feet of space.
Project was recently launched with a unique groundbreaking celebration that featured a 60-piece wind symphony and a architectural model created by the school’s ceramic students. The building is designed to unite a diverse range of art studies into a social facility that encourages interaction between the students and faculty. The architects also wanted to make it a space for the whole school, breaking barriers between people’s different interests.
Seen at designboom. More images after the break.
Where are the Plans, Sections and Elevations?
embarrasing similarities with the oslo opera house.
I like how the volume is uplifted from the ground to make an entrance but the facility space above the bighall has the same clumsiness as the one on the Opera house in Oslo.
The front porch looks like an airport dropoff lane.
The location is very flat area. So it is nice to have ‘green hill’ in the campus and the city. I like the idea.