The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts integrates several restored buildings on half a city block into a new arts complex, which includes a 560-seat proscenium theater, a 100-seat black box theater, dance, visual arts, and music studios, and art galleries located in former street front retail spaces. The gaps between the buildings have become a new skylit lobby. Rather than seeking a unifying design vocabulary, each building expresses its individual character, maintaining the rich variety and character of a historic downtown which giving new life as an active, thriving, component of the community.

Awards

California Preservation Foundation Design Award

California Heritage Council Award