Loyola Academy Performing Arts Center

Wilmette, IL

Awards

Best of Block, Masonry Advisory Council

To realize its educational mission, the Academy is elevating its Performing Arts facilities. The theater will host up to 550 guests in a full range of performing arts productions, including plays, musicals, orchestra concerts, and dance performances. A lobby with exhibit space, student lounge, and support spaces will complete the experience for students, faculty, and guests.

This is a transformational project raising the Arts to the level of Academics and Athletics within the school program.

Strategically positioned along the Loyola Academy campus's north edge, the facility will create a new campus Plaza and Quad.

The section through the theater is an important way to understand the performance & proportion of the space.

It was here that the project started, along with the client we worked to add a balcony and fly tower within the local height restrictions of the Village of Wilmette.

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Outdoor space will host daily student curriculum, extra-curricular, and social activity for the students while creating community and unique identity — a place for everyone.