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Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center

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2011, BOORA, with Rhotenberry Wellen Architects; KDC Associates, landscape architects. 1310 N. FM 1788

This performing arts complex, sited here to seed development along a bare stretch of state highway between Midland and Odessa and to provide a performance space for both cities, was funded as part of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB) along with private donations. It is composed of dynamically tilted superimposed wedges faced in limestone (BOORA’s homage to the faulted strata of the Permian Basin), stainless steel (in homage to the West Texas sky), and glass. The center contains an 1,800-seat flexible performance space, a 200-seat recital hall, a recording studio, and the offices and facilities of the UTPB Music Department.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center", [Midland, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-MT21.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 462-462.

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