Rockwellgroup

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  Blue School

  Rockwell Group partnered with the the founders of the renowned Blue Man Group to build the new permanent home for The Blue School. This six-story building will provide a strong foundation for the school to further realize its mission and vision: creating unique and powerful approaches to cultivate children’s curiosity, creative expression and self-awareness. As Architect-of-Record, Rockwell Group converted a landmarked building into a school, designing the environment so that kids can invent and reinvent the spaces on an ongoing basis. Having spent over five years researching, developing and realizing the Imagination Playground initiative, Rockwell Group’s focus on encouraging child-directed, creative, ever-changing free play was directly in line with the philosophical beliefs of The Blue School.

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  Cirque du Soleil

  Cirque du Soleil at Walt Disney World signifies the production’s first freestanding venue. The fabric-like, cylindrical building is made from Teflon-coated fiberglass and soars to 160 feet in height, echoing Cirque’s iconic traveling show tent. Interior highlights include a custom carpet inspired by Picasso’s Harlequin, hand-dyed drapes evoking the Cirque costumes, and a grand stair that can function as a min performance stage. Serving as a dramatic focal point for Downtown Disney, the 1,671-seat theater captures the excitement and spectacle of the circus.

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  Culture Shed

  Culture Shed is an innovative, accessible home for the creative industries in the Hudson Yards district. Sited along the High Line at 30th Street, this unique facility designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Rockwell Group will welcome a range of activities by local and international organizations spanning the worlds of visual art, design, media and performance.

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  Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center

  The Film Society of Lincoln Center opened the new Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center to the public in June 2011 as part of the redevelopment of the 16-acre Lincoln Center campus. Rockwell Group transformed this underutilized office space and a parking garage into a new state-of-the-art street-level Film Center, which houses two theaters, an amphitheater and a café. With the opening of the Film Center, the Film Society will be able to dramatically expand its programming with an emphasis on film education.

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  Imagination Playground

  Imagination Playground is a breakthrough play space concept designed by U.S. architect David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play - the kind of play that experts say is critical to a child’s intellectual, social, physical and emotional development. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground empowers children to constantly reconfigure the space around them and design their own course of play. Comprised of an assortment of movable objects, including biodegradable foam blocks in 15 uniquely designed shapes, Imagination Playground offers an easy-to-install alternative for creative play in almost any indoor or outdoor setting.

  Imagination Playground is available in a variety of ways, including Imagination Playground in a Box and Imagination Playground in a Cart.

  For more information, please visit: www.imaginationplayground.com

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