
UNT’s music and fine arts education center, named for longtime regent Lucille Gannon Murchison of Dallas, includes a 1,100-seat concert hall, a 400-seat theater, and support facilities under a convex, tapering, segmented metal roof that resembles an armadillo about to curl into a protective ball. The biomorphic shape is a literal translation of the acoustical volume of the concert hall within. The center is a teaching facility and public performance venue for the UNT College of Music and the Department of Dance and Theater. Located alongside I-35 not only gives it increased public visibility but also architecturally links the campus with its extension south of the freeway, land acquired in 2002, where the sleek 31,000-seat Apogee Stadium (2011; 1251 S. Bonnie Brae Street) by HKS of Dallas was built.