The Eau Claire and Chippewa Rivers have been an integral part of the identity of Eau Claire since the city’s founding. In the heart of downtown sits the confluence of the two rivers and a dazzling new arts center, Pablo Center at the Confluence.
The Wisconsin city’s formerly sleepy downtown has experienced a cultural revitalization in recent years, and the Pablo Center, built on the site of an old parking lot, provides a place where people of all ages and backgrounds can come together and experience performing, literary, and visual arts.
Shared by a multitude of community organizations and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the Pablo Center required a variety of spaces to support the center’s breadth of programs.
Schuler Shook provided architectural lighting design and theatre planning for the center, which includes a 1,200-seat proscenium theatre, a flexible 400-seat venue, rehearsal and dance spaces, areas for community gathering, an art gallery, and labs for sound, lighting, set, and exhibit design, recording arts, and multimedia production. All of that in one arts center!
Theatre consulting in the theatres included stage rigging, stage lighting, pit lift design, seating and sightlines, and architectural lighting in collaboration with the design team, user representatives, developers, and contractors.
Read more about the Pablo Center: https://lnkd.in/gzryhaq4
Architect: Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture Llp / Strang
??: Mike Howard Photography
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