The horizontal thrust of the Winspear’s massive solar canopy provides a nice contrast to the verticality of the Wyly Theatre by REX/OMA across Flora Street. Pei’s Meyerson Symphony Center (1989) an inviting 10-acre park and an orientation rotated 30 degrees from the street. Consequently, the Winspear now shares with I.M. To encourage this democratization, the architects enlivened the plan with new axes that link the buildings with plazas and the surrounding streets-notably a north–south path perpendicular to Flora. Today, generous open spaces intended to attract crowds of nontheatergoers are considered as important as the buildings themselves. Certainly, the second goal has been realized, and the opera house’s design encourages the first.Īttitudes toward the arts have changed radically since the initial plan for the center respectfully aligned each institution along a single street (Flora). As designed by Foster + Partners, the building reflects the values of Bill Winspear, the Canadian-born entrepreneur who donated $43 million to the approximately $150 million project to share his passion for music with as many people as possible and make sure the hall’s acoustics would be excellent. With a steel-frame canopy stretching well beyond its performance hall, the Winspear Opera House reaches out to other constituents of the AT&T Performing Arts Center.
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