City Council approves final schematic designs

During the City Council Study Session on April 11, 2002, the Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA) design team of Barton Myers Associates, Inc. and Tempe-based ARCHITEKTON presented the final Schematic Design for approval. The Schematic Design (SD) incorporated many comments resultant of previous SD review work sessions held with Executive and Steering Committees, User Group representatives, city of Tempe staff and other project stakeholders. 

The schematic design phase of the project developed and finalized building floor plans and elevations, mechanical systems plans, advanced landscape plans, seating layouts for the 600-seat Proscenium Theater and the 200 seat Studio Theater, and advanced acoustical engineering. As presented to City Council, the Schematic Design remains within the targeted project budget amount of $63 million.

As part of the presentation, architect Barton Myers announced the proposed public artists for the project. From a record 233 applicants, two individual artists and a team of two artists were chosen by a selection panel and, subsequently, approved for submittal to the Council by the Tempe Municipal Arts Commission. James Carpenter from New York, Ramona Sakiestewa from New Mexico, and the team of Mayme Kratz and Mark Ryan from Arizona and California, respectively, will soon begin work with the design team to identify and develop art opportunities within the project. The public art aspect of the TCA project is supported by the City of Tempe Percent for Art program.

City Council received the presentation with enthusiasm and directed the design team to move forward with the Design Development (DD) phase of the project. DD, scheduled to reach completion in late September 2002, will further refine architectural and mechanical details of the Tempe Center for the Arts.

The Tempe Center for the Arts is being funded through a dedicated sales tax
passed by Tempe voters in May 2000.

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