We’re excited to unveil the new home for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center, the future of performance in Music City! 🎶
Designed by BIG, William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc., and HASTINGS, the new TPAC is situated on a riverfront site in Nashville's reenergized East Bank. The 307,000-sq-ft center invites the community in from every direction, with four performance venues clustered at its core: the multi-function Grand Broadway theater, a dance and opera hall, a flexible black box theater, and an intimate cabaret space, as well as rehearsal studios and classrooms. Extending the city's rich legacy in the arts, the new building will serve as the home of the Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, and Nashville Repertory Theatre while creating venues for traveling Broadway shows, dance performances, and community events.
“The new home for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center is designed like an urban and cultural connection – between the east and west bank of the Cumberland River, between the old and the new Nashville, and between all of the performing arts. Visually, it bookends Broadway as a beacon from across the river, drawing the cultural life of downtown across to the East Bank. Designed to be welcoming on all sides, the center is accessible from above and below the bridge, making the lobby a cascading public space for the daily life of the neighborhood. The façade is composed of aluminum tubes bundled like organ pipes or steel chimes, undulating from vertical to horizontal to provide openings and canopies for the audience and performers passing through. The result is like a flowing public pavilion in the park that, as the new home for TPAC, provides the inclusive and inviting character that its program and performances deserve.” - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG
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