CNU Launches Center for the Arts Virtual Tour
News Release - April 10, 2003
contact:
Margaret O. Yancey
myancey@cnu.edu
757-594-7942
Step inside the highly anticipated Center for the Arts at http://www.cnu.edu/virtual_tour. Made possible through the generosity of the Verizon Foundation, Christopher Newport University has launched the Center for the Arts virtual tour.
Traverse The Colonnade, a 900-foot walkway and plaza facing Warwick Boulevard. Travel through the Main Lobby, a spectacular public gathering space that will accommodate over 1,000 people; gaze up at the five-story glass atrium or explore the 1,700-seat Concert Hall and find out which of the three seating levels provides the best views.
Phase I of the highly anticipated Center for the Arts is well underway and is expected to be completed by January 2004. Included in this first phase of construction are the 500-seat theater and the 200-seat Black Box Theater and space for classrooms and studios. The facility will include a 10,800 square-foot lobby, concessions, box office, restrooms and food service facility, and will embrace a magnificent outdoor amphitheater. Supporting both theaters will be dressing rooms, a lighting shop and lab, scene shop and storage area, rehearsal rooms, prop shop, a dance studio, costume shop and storage area, a green room, loading dock and laundry room. During the second phase of the $54 million project, construction will begin on the 1,700-seat Performance Hall.
Designed by Pei, Cobb, Freed and Partners, the New York architectural firm that has created some of the most celebrated buildings in the world, this facility will provide one of the most dramatic vistas in the Commonwealth of Virginia and will be rivaled by few communities in America.
Enjoy your tour!
For those viewers using a Cable or DSL modem, please choose the Video Tour located on the lower left side of the screen. The graphical presentation is recommended for Dial-up modems and older systems.