Portland Center for the Performing Arts

This project renovated and converted the 2,776-seat Paramount Theatre, a 1929 Rapp and Rapp movie palace, into the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Two new halls, the Newmark and Winningstad Theatres, were created. In 2005 TPC and BOORA Architects conducted a new study for the renovation and expansion of Schnitzer Hall and support facilities. This expansion project is currently awaiting funding.

Services

Programming, concept design, theatre planning, and theatre equipment design and specification

Owner

Portland Center for the Performing Arts

Users

Oregon Symphony Orchestra, Portland Youth Philharmonic, touring performances, and local and regional arts groups

Acoustician

Kirkegaard Associates

Theatre Type(s)

Arts center, Concert hall, Courtyard theatre, Flexible theatre, Multipurpose theatre

Seat Count(s)

2776, 880, 292

Construction Type

Mixed

• Theatre Builders: A Collaborative Art
• Making Space for Theatre: British Architecture and Theatre since 1958