{"id":105426,"date":"2025-10-30T05:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105426\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:20:18","slug":"snohetta-completes-expansion-of-dartmouths-hopkins-center-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105426\/","title":{"rendered":"Sn\u00f8hetta completes expansion of Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"

International architecture studio Sn\u00f8hetta<\/a> has completed an expansion to the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, fitting two new cubic volumes onto an existing 1960s building.<\/p>\n

Located on the Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire<\/a>, the Hopkins Center for the Arts<\/a> (The Hop) is a sprawling complex that serves as the school’s arts and cultural hub, containing a multi-level network of theatres, auditoriums and studios.<\/p>\n

\"TheSn\u00f8hetta has added a new wing and other updates to The Hop arts centre at Dartmouth College. Above photo and top photo by Jeff Goldberg\/Esto<\/p>\n

Sn\u00f8hetta released designs for the centre’s expansion in 2022<\/a>, adding to the original design by architect Wallace K Harrison<\/a>. The expansion included filling in open spaces in the programme, such as a former outdoor courtyard, and creating new outward-facing volumes to hold performances.<\/p>\n

The two main volumes added are the Recital Hall building at the front, which is clad in bronze-coloured steel panels and the Daryl Roth Studio Theatre on the backside, which is wrapped in precast concrete with a skirting made of the same steel material as the Recital Hall.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe studio added two new main volumes to the complex, a steel-clad extension that branches off the original entrance and a precast concrete-clad theatre behind it. Photo by Jeff Goldberg\/Esto<\/p>\n

The project also encompassed revitalising existing spaces in the centre, such as the 900-seat Spaulding Auditorium.<\/p>\n

The studio also updated the Top of the Hop, a social and gathering space.<\/p>\n

\"DarylThe Daryl Roth Studio Theatre sits at the centre of the complex and is wrapped in precast concrete panels<\/p>\n

Sn\u00f8hetta looked to the existing building to inform the design of the Recital Hall, designing it to be “like a lantern” for the campus, when light passes through the arched mullion windows at night.<\/p>\n

Because the massing of the new structure protrudes in a similar way to the rounded-arch facade of Harrison’s design, the studio referenced dance partners when talking about the effect of the Recital Hall’s presence.<\/p>\n

“[The buildings] just feel like they belong together,” said Sn\u00f8hetta co-founder Craig Dykers.<\/p>\n

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“They’re dance partners. They’re not doing the same thing, otherwise, they’d step on each other’s feet, but they’re dancing in a group together. And they both feel that they represent the arts.”<\/p>\n

The buildings are connected via an irregularly shaped volume that wraps around the Roth Wing’s volume and attaches it to the main building via a glass-enclosed space.<\/p>\n

\"HopA double-height recital hall sits behind the building’s window mullions. Photo by Jeff Goldberg\/Esto<\/p>\n

Dubbed the Forum, the space serves as a lobby and connects the two levels of the Roth Wing to the existing building via an open, curved staircase covered in striated wood.<\/p>\n

The stair also leads to the second-storey Recital Hall, which looks out through the building’s window mullions.<\/p>\n

\"HopThe wood-clad Forum is located between the two buildings and acts as a new lobby<\/p>\n

The campus’s first dance studio is located directly below the Recital Hall and is slightly subterranean, exposed by windows that run along its perimeter at ground level.<\/p>\n

Other new spaces include the Mindy Kaling Theatre Lab, which is located on the lower level.<\/p>\n

\"HopThe campus’s first dance studio is located below ground<\/p>\n

Additional updates include the formalisation of the plaza in front of The Hop, which “offers a new central and sunlit point of entry”.<\/p>\n

The arts centre sits across from the Hood Museum of Art on the campus, which was also recently overhauled by Tod Williams Billie Tsien<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other recent Sn\u00f8hetta projects include a sculptural addition to the home of St Louis Symphony Orchestra in St Louis<\/a>, while Dezeen rounded up five of the studio’s buildings that can be walked on<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Alexa Bendek<\/a> unless otherwise noted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"International architecture studio Sn\u00f8hetta has completed an expansion to the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,55561,48855,438,146,85,46,27157,448,449,17275,29580,2586],"class_list":["post-105426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-campuses","tag-colleges","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-new-hampshire","tag-sectionall","tag-sectionarchitecture","tag-snu00f8hetta","tag-theatres","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}