Cornerstone Arts Center
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
2004/2008
The Cornerstone Arts
Building at Colorado College was conceived from the Colorado Arts Initiative
(CAI), which began as a series of conversations and brainstorming sessions
among faculty in the arts and humanities as a way of living in the creative
arts. The goals of the CAI evolved into the creation of a relationship
where artists are brought together for the production, presentation and
discussion of work in all media (two-dimensional and three-dimensional
visual art, drama, dance, performance, video/filmmaking, music).
Located at a juncture between downtown Colorado Springs and Colorado College,
the site for the new Cornerstone Arts Center is a threshold which gently
divides the more urban and residential areas of the city from the historic
campus. The design for the building takes into account the essence of
the site, expressed by paths converging on and crossing the site, views
toward Pike's Peak and an aspiration toward the sky. The facility will
serve as the physical backbone of the arts culture on campus, defining
passages and nodal points within and beyond the building, setting the
stage for catalytic possibilities of encounter, creating a weblike network
between art and other academic disciplines and the Colorado College community.
The Cornerstone Center for the Arts contains spaces to encourage scheduled
and impromptu interdisciplinary arts events in a variety of venues. Anyone
entering the building becomes a potential spectator or performer where
the architecture itself is the stage. The new facility houses thrust and
studio theaters, rehearsal rooms for drama, music and dance, the Colorado
College experimental art gallery and technology labs for media arts, all
of which are linked to one another holistically. These spaces were planned
and programmed to promote and facilitate the interaction of artists and
performers with each other, with casual observers and with audiences from
the College and local community.
In association with Executive Architect
Anderson Mason Dale
Cornerstone
Art Center receives LEED Gold
Cornerstone
Arts Center Opening
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