Kent State University, Roe Green Center
Kent, Ohio
The Roe Green Center provides unified, expanded and improved facilities for the School of Theatre and Dance. With vigorously shaped additions that include a 200 seat black-box theater, three dance studios, a new lobby, a formerly unremarkable building is metamorphosed into a beacon for the arts. The banding of multi-colored materials, and use of variously sized masonry blocks with differing finishes, lend the building a sense of rhythm that captures attention when approached from the main campus drive. The Center’s richly textured cantilevered surfaces dapple sunlight in the day, and glow when illuminated at night.
