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Performing Arts Center, Irvine Valley College
VA Scope: Acoustical Consultation and Audio-Visual Design
Performing Arts/Theater Building, Irvine Valley Community College
Location: Irvine, California
Architect: Arquitectonica
Completion: 2008
Cost: $32 Million

This new 46,690 square foot Performing Arts complex is both a teaching and a performance venue. The facility's core is a 400-seat proscenium stage theater than will be used for dram, lectures, student assemblies, large classes and music presentations. The primary Music/Drama Lab is designed as a variable form space, and will accommodate as many as 200. The complex also contacts a smaller Music/Drama lab, scene shop, costume shop, design lab, offices, a box office and food service.