DEVELOPMENT TEAM
Owner/Developer New World Symphony Miami Beach, Florida www.nws.edu
Design Architect (Building) Gehry Partners, LLP Los Angeles, California www.foga.com
Design Architect (Park) West 8 Urban Design and Landscape Architecture B.V. Rotterdam, The Netherlands www.west8.nl
Jury STATEMENT
The New World Center is an innovative facility for classical music education and performance in Miami Beach, Florida, that sits at the intersection of architecture, technology, education, and culture. An 80-foot-high glass-and-steel box contains the free- flowing theater space, while the front facade—which doubles as a 7,000-square- foot projection wall— displays concerts and video art to patrons in an adjacent 2.5-acre green space. Global WINNER
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PROJECT DATA
Web Site www.newworldcenter.com
Site Area 3.75 ac (1.52 ha)
Facilities 106,000 sf (9,849 m2) education and performance space 38,784 sf (3,603 m2) open space 550 parking spaces
Land Use civic, education, open space
Start/Completion Dates January 2008–November 2010 5IF/FX8PSME$FOUFSJTUIFDFOUFSQJFDFPGBZFBSFGGPSUUPSFKVWFOBUFUIFBSFBPG.JBNJ PHOTOGRAPHY BY CLAUDIA URIBE (8) CLAUDIA URIBE (10), RUI DIAS-AIDOS (10) #FBDICFUXFFOUIFQFEFTUSJBOTIPQQJOHTUSFUDIPG-JODPMO3PBEBOEUIFDPOWFOUJPODFOUFS TOMAS LOEWY (11) #VUJUBMTPJTBOFGGPSUUPSFKVWFOBUFUIFQFSDFQUJPOPGDMBTTJDBMNVTJD XIJDIIBTGPSEFDBEFT suffered from a stodgy, elitist image. As Thomas told the Miami Heraldi&WFSZUIJOHBCPVU this building is new—the spaces, the way they work, the way they relate to the audience, the QSFTFODFPGUIFDPODFSUTPOUIFTLJOPGUIFCVJMEJOHu*OCVJMEJOHUIF/FX8PSME$FOUFS UIF NWS hopes to start a new, more open dialogue among music lovers in Miami Beach.
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