RoTo Architects
La Jolla Playhouse
Play Development and Education Center
La Jolla, California

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Opening Night image

RoTo Architects recently completed DD on the La Jolla Playhouse which is scheduled for ground breaking in January 2002.

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The "Alley".

The Play Development and Educational Center for the La Jolla Playhouse and UCSD Department of Theater and Dance consists of a flexible "Black Box" theater, a lab theater, two large classroom/ rehearsal spaces, technical support and warehouse spaces, restaurant and cafe, and offices to provide a permanent artistic and administrative home for the playhouse.

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The "Lobby".

This facility will act as an experimental laboratory for artists and educators, and a state of the art, fully flexible teaching and facility venue for ideas and community interface. The urban campus planning goal is to give the entire Performing Arts district a coherent identity and create a public plaza and restored eucalyptus grove that unifies the three theaters in the district.

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Site Plan

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Section through the "Black Box".

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Section through the Rehearsal Spaces.

The building area covers 43,000 square feet with an addition of 107,000 square feet of landscape, public plaza and park space.

Construction Jan '02 - Mar '03
Cost: 15 million

Programming Feb. '00 - Mar '00,
Design March '00 - Sep '01,
Construction Dec '01 - Mar '03