Just as many Rhode Islanders were rushing home for the start of the Memorial Day Weekend, school officials were breaking ground on the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, a $40-million arts center designed by New York architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Situated on a busy stretch of Angell Street and due to be completed in early 2011, the center will house a 200-seat recital hall, a recording studio and an art gallery, among other facilities...

...According to the project’s fact sheet, the 35,000-square-foot building will house an art gallery, a film-screening room, a recording studio, a multimedia lab and three production studios. Other facilities will include an outdoor amphitheater and a “physical media lab” that will explore links between the arts and technology.

Full Story: Brown University ‘breaks ground’ on new arts center on East Side of Providence Source: Providence Journal, May 31st, 2009 Author: Bill Van Siclen Added on June 1st, 2009 at 9:38 am, by Matt Mikula