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L7C4274Mesa Community College Performing Arts Center

Developer: Maricopa Community Colleges
Contractor: Layton Construction Co., Inc.
Architect: Jones Studio
Size: 48KSF
Location: Mesa
Completed: October 2014

An unused Harkins Theater set the stage for Mesa Community College’s new performing arts center, thanks to the innovative design and execution by Jones Studio and Layton Construction. The project reused about 75 percent of the movie theater to create a 48KSF multifunctional facility from a 26KSF structure. The MCC PAC features a 460-seat multipurpose theater, individual musical practice spaces, classrooms, band practice rooms. The architecture, which most notably uses masonry in refreshing ways, is inspired by the musical structure of songs. The north masonry wall is folded along an ascending diagonal line derived from the opening clarinet glissando of “Rhapsody in Blue” by George Gershwin. The exterior wall was used as a canvas for salvaged movie seat stanchions that will create engaging shadows throughout the day.