Living Arts Centre
| Living Arts Centre Mississauga | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Arts complex |
| Architectural style | Modern |
| Location | Mississauga, Ontario, Canada |
| Address | 4141 Living Arts Drive, Mississauga, Ontario |
| Town or city | Mississauga |
| Country | Canada |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 43°35′23″N 79°38′46″W / 43.589604°N 79.64617°W |
| Completed | 1997 |
| Inaugurated | 1997 |
| Owner | City of Mississauga |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Zeidler Partnership Architects, Toronto |
| Main contractor | PCL Constructors Canada Incorporated, Toronto |
| Other information | |
| Seating type | RBC Theatre Hammerson Hall Rogers Theatre |
| Seating capacity | 350 1315 110 |
| Website | |
| Official Site | |
The Living Arts Centre is a 225,000 square foot (21,000 m²) multi-use facility which opened in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada in 1997. The Centre is visited by over 300,000 visitors annually, who come to view performing and visual arts programs, attend corporate meetings/conventions, or participate in a variety of community events. The Living Arts Centre houses performance theatres (Hammerson Hall and The RBC Theatre), an exhibition gallery, seven professional art studios and corporate meeting facilities.
The term living arts centre is often used as a synonym for gallery, especially for those venues which also hold multi-media presentations or teaching courses.
The Centre has seven art and craft studios. Presently there is a glass studio, a furniture or wood studio, a textiles studio, a ceramics studio, a drawing studio, a metal studio and a photography studio. When the Centre first opened there was also a digital arts studio.
The Centre opened in October 1997, and is divided into two buildings that appear as one, the art and craft building and the performing arts building. The architect for the project was the Zeidler Partnership.
There are three theatres the biggest a 1,350-seat concert theatre called Hammerson Hall; a 382-seat recital theatre called the RBC Theatre; and a small 110 seat space named the Rogers Theatre.
The Living Arts Centre offers one of two studios that offer subsidized space to artists working in the studio materials in Ontario, the other being the Harbourfront Craft Centre in Toronto.
The Living Arts Centre was designed by a famous Canadian architect named Eberhard Zeidler of Zeidler Roderts Partnership. He is also known for designing the Eaton Centre, Queen's Quay Terminal, the National Trade Centre, Toronto Centre for the Arts, Premiere Dance Theatre at Harbourfront Centre, and the Young People's Theatre. Zeidler led a team of 40 architects and engineers to complete the Living Arts Centre project.
The design of the building has a modern feeling, with extensive use of glass, steel, and exposed concrete. The designers utilized strong, bright colours for the building materials in order to engage people who visited the centre. They wanted to create a public place that would make people who are visiting it have positive emotional responses, and feel good being there. During the opening of the Living Arts Centre, with its contemporary design, the centre was said to give Mississauga its first true identity, by providing the community with a new sense of itself.
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