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Academic Centers for Athletes Draw Donors
More than a dozen university athletics programs have added lavish new facilities in recent years, and academic-services budgets are soaring, a Chronicle survey finds. (Photograph courtesy of Texas A&M U.)
College Employees Value Campus Environment, Survey Finds
When a Chronicle survey asked college employees what they value about their jobs, they put the physical environment in which they work at the top of the list.
Rise in Tornadoes, Floods Poses Risk to Colleges
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At Cal Arts, a 'Wild Beast' for Musicians
Doors of a new music pavilion at Cal Arts will open to permit audience seating on the lawn. (Cal Arts images)
Would your institution dare to name a building “The Wild Beast”? No? The California Institute of the Arts is doing just that.
The 3,200-square-foot building, now under construction, is a music pavilion designed to accommodate classes as well as small and large performances, according to a Cal Arts news release. With its doors closed, it will seat up to 140 for indoor classes and recitals. But open the sliding doors and unfold an awning to direct sound out to the lawn, and the entire pavilion will become a stage for performances for audiences of up to 1,000.
The Wild Beast was designed by Hodgetts & Fung, of Los Angeles. The structure’s most striking aspect is a long, copper-sheathed form that begins as a side wall and curves across the top of the space to become the roof. The building is expected to cost $3-million and to open this coming fall. The name, Cal Arts says, comes from the composer Morton Feldman’s reference to “the illusive space in a work of art between subject and surface where meaning resides.”
Cal Arts may take chances with names, but it isn’t the first California institution with a music pavilion that can be opened for large performances. The University of California at Los Angeles has a similar building.
With its doors closed, the building will seat 140.
The building is located in a courtyard near the entrance to Cal Arts.
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