The Santa Fe Opera Theater
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2,160 seats
1998

Culminating the architects' ten-year involvement with the Opera, the design for this open-air theater delicately balances concerns for the preservation of operagoers' memories with the requirement that the thirty-year-old facility be replaced with a technically-sophisticated and enlarged opera hall. The new theater, whose principal feature is the profile created by the structure of its suspended steel rib and cable stay roof, provides greater shelter and comfort for patrons and performers, improves access for the disabled, creates a more efficient working environment for artists and administrators and enhances the relationship of the complex to its magnificent natural setting.

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