Paul Mellon Arts Center
The Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC) is an arts building on the campus of Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut designed by architect I. M. Pei.
The original design began in 1968 and the building was completed in 1972. It was funded in large part by school alumnus Paul Mellon, who was also responsible as the National Gallery's president for Pei's commission for the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. at roughly the same time.
Structure
The physical structure has a rectangular footprint but is divided into two wings: the Theater Wing, which houses a 760-seat, two level proscenium theater as well as a black box theater; and the Triangle Wing, which has five levels of practice rooms, art studios, classrooms, offices, and a recording studio. The two wings are connected underground by the black box theater.
The building was constructed around the time at which the Rosemary Hall school for girls and the Choate School for boys joined to become a single, coeducational institution and quickly became a physical and symbolic link between the two campuses. Today, it retains less of this meaning, for the two schools' campuses are no longer separated as they were in the early 1970s.
External links
- Pei Cobb & Freed's Building Description
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- List of projects
- 131 Ponce de Leon Avenue (1949)
- Roosevelt Field Mall (1951)
- William L. Slayton House (1960)
- Erieview Plan (1960)
- Town Center East (1960-61)
- Government Center Master Plan (1961)
- University Apartments (1961)
- Cathedral Square of Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (1962)
- Hale Manoa Dormitory (1962)
- Waterfront Tower (1960s)
- Kips Bay Plaza (1963)
- Luce Memorial Chapel (1963)
- Society Hill Towers (1964)
- MIT Green Building (1964)
- S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications (1964)
- Washington Plaza (1964)
- The Century Towers (1965)
- University Village (1966)
- Mesa Laboratory (1967)
- Des Moines Art Center sculpture wing (1968)
- Everson Museum of Art (1968)
- Cleo Rogers Memorial Library (1969)
- Columbia University Master Plan (1970)
- Sundrome (1970)
- Grave of Robert F. Kennedy (1971)
- I. M. Pei Building (1971)
- Paul Mellon Arts Center (1972)
- Commerce Court West (1973)
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (1973)
- Lamar Building penthouse (1976)
- Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Centre (1976)
- Dallas City Hall (1977)
- National Gallery of Art East Building (1978)
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (1979)
- One Dallas Center (1979)
- Biltmore Building (1980)
- Museum of Fine Arts West Wing (1981)
- Eskenazi Museum of Art (1982)
- Sunning Plaza (1982)
- Texas Commerce Tower (1982)
- 16th Street Mall, Denver (1982)
- Energy Plaza (1983)
- IBM Somers Office Complex (1984)
- Wiesner Building (1984)
- Raffles City (1986)
- Swissôtel The Stamford (1986)
- Miami Tower (1987)
- Bank of China Tower (Hong Kong) (1989)
- Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (1989)
- The Gateway (1990)
- The Kirklin Clinic (1992)
- Four Seasons Hotel New York (1993)
- Louvre Pyramid (1993)
- Louvre Inverted Pyramid (1993)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1995)
- Buck Institute for Research on Aging (1996)
- Miho Museum (1997)
- Oare Pavilion (2003)
- Deutsches Historisches Museum Zeughaus Wing (2003)
- MUDAM-Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (2006)
- Suzhou Museum New Wings (2006)
- Embassy of China in Washington, D.C. (2006)
- Museum of Islamic Art (2008)
- Macau Science Center (2009)
- Pei Plan (1964)
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