KOKA BOOTH PARK AMPHITHEATRE
Department of Cultural Resources, Cary, NC
An outdoor performance center—featuring stage and back of house pavilion, VIP dining and audience pavilion, concession, ticketing and restroom pavilions—sits within a wooded pine forest at the edge of Symphony Lake in Cary, NC. The facility has a seating capacity of 7,000 to 10,000 on a central lawn and under the surrounding pines. The venue is the summer stage for the North Carolina Symphony, the Triangle Opera, the Carolina Ballet Company, assorted national touring entertainers, and local community groups. (Alan Joslin, as a Principal-in-Charge of Design with William Rawn Associates, Architects)
Realization
Video Walk-through
Project Data
STATUS: Completed 2001
SIZE: 32,000 sf; 14.7-acre park
COST: $15.2 million
Project Credits
OWNER: Baltimore Symphony and Montgomery Co.
CONTRACTOR: Barnhill Contracting Company
ARCHITECT: William Rawn Associates, Architects
Principal-in-Charge of Design: Alan Joslin
IMAGE COPYRIGHT: Robert Benson and Michael Zirkel
Honors and Awards
2003 AIA NORTH CAROLINA: Design Award
2003 IESNA: International Illumination Award
2002 USITT: Honor Award in New Architecture
2002 AIA/AISC: National Winner for Innovative Design and Excellence in Architecture Using Structural Steel
2001 BSA: Design Award
2001 AIA NEW ENGLAND: Honor Award in Architecture