The Winsor School
Lubin-O'Donnell Center for Performing Arts and Wellness
Project
Lubin-O'Donnell Center for Performing Arts and Wellness
Client
The Winsor School
Location
Boston, MA
Completion
2015
Size
140,000 GSF
Certification
LEED Silver
Category
K-12 Education, The Arts, Renovations + Additions
This mixed-use facility serves as the home for the performing arts, athletics and wellness education at the center of Winsor’s historic campus. The project features a new 515-seat theater, the school’s main assembly space, as well as major athletic and recreation facilities, including a two-court gymnasium, squash courts, and physical education spaces. Other program elements include rehearsal and teaching areas for drama, dance, music, and health and wellness.
INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION AND EXPLORATION
The new building brings together program types often segregated - arts and athletics - to encourage leadership, collaboration, and creative risk taking. Nearly every space - from music rehearsal to dance to fitness to costume shop to engineering maker space - is given presence in the light-filled corridor. Students proficient in one discipline or activity will see others and may broaden their interests.
Awards + Recognition
2018 Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Award
2017 National AIA-CAE Education Facility Design Merit Award
2017 BSA Design Excellence Citation
Project Consultants
Structural Eengineer | LeMessurier Consultants, Inc.
Mechanical / Electrical Engineer | Rist-Frost-Shumway Engineering
Civil Engineer | Nitsch Engineering
Landscape Architect | Landworks Studio, Inc.
Interior Deisgner | Lab [3.2] Architecture
Lighting Consultant | Horton Lees Brogden Design Group
Theater Consultant | Theatre Projects Consultants
Acoustical Engineer | Threshold Acoustics LLC
Photographer | Robert Benson