Digital Arts & Media Center
A screening theater, an immersive gallery and broadcast studios, wrapped in a sculpted skin of panels that are each one of a kind.
- Owner
- Confidential
- Location
- U.S.
- Market
- Cultural & Performing Arts
- Delivery
- CM at-risk
- Scale
- 96,000 SF
- Completed
- 2025
A screening theater, immersive gallery and broadcast studios inside a sculpted shell with no two panels alike.
The exterior is a curving shell of metal panels, and almost no two share the same shape. A single fabrication error could hold up an entire elevation. Inside, broadcast studios and the theater needed sound isolation and dense AV infrastructure that had to be built into the structure, not added later.
The approach.
- 01
The model was the shop drawing
Each panel was fabricated straight from the coordinated model, tagged with its location and checked against laser scans of the installed frame.
- 02
Install sequence locked to the crane
Panel deliveries were sequenced by elevation and crane pick, so each truck arrived in the order its panels went on the wall.
- 03
Quiet rooms built in
Studios and the theater sit on isolated slabs with sealed penetrations, inspected before any wall was closed.
- 04
AV pathways first
Conduit, backboxes and structural supports for the LED gallery were installed and verified ahead of finishes.
The outcome.
“When no two pieces match, you cannot fix a mistake by grabbing the next one off the pallet. Precision had to start in the model.”
VDC manager, GilbertLanham
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