The recently-completed Dallas City Performance Hall, a 124,000-square-foot multi-phase theater facility, is being praised for its environmental and LEED Silver-rated construction, courtesy of using concrete as the primary construction material. The structure is composed of a long sweeping roof flanked by two stories of cast-in-place concrete walls and is organized as a series of linear pavilions, capped by varying ribbon-like roof forms. The dense concrete walls create a solid sound barrier to hold in entertainment music and dialogue and keep distracting noises out.

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