The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York was designed by Grimshaw Architects and Davis Brody Bond, with Buro Happold as engineer. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute owns it. Groundbreaking was September 19, 2003, and it opened October 3, 2008. The cost rose from an estimated $50 million to $141 million. The article names no style.
The seven-floor building has a concert hall seating 1,200, wrapped in about 36,000 square feet of Western Red Cedar, and a 400-seat theater. A 20,000-square-foot glass wall runs along the north side, and 215 rock anchors stabilize the foundations.
Other spaces include artist studios and a 360-degree projection screen 40 feet (12 m) round. It is LEED Silver certified. The article gives no hours.
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