South Mountain Performing Arts Center
2003, Phoenix, AZ

Jones Studio, Inc. designed the new 30,000 SF, 350-seat variable acoustic theatre along with four multipurpose classrooms for South Mountain Community College. Not unlike the undulating surface of a Saguaro cactus, the break metal louvers dissipate heat, shade wall surface, and provide a tough shell to protect the soft, underlying interior sound chamber.

 

Awards:

  • 2005 American Architecture Exhibition and
    Distinguished Building Awards
    The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of
    Architecture and Design

  • 2005 Innovative Design and Excellence in Architecture (I.D.E.A) Using Structural Steel
    Up to $10M category
    National Winner

  • 2004 Valley Forward Association,
    Environmental Excellence Awards
    Crescordia Award (Top Honor) – Public Assembly

  • 2004 American Institute of Architects (AIA)/
    Western Mountain Region
    Honor Award

  • 2004 American Institute of Architects (AIA)/Arizona
    Merit Award

  • 2004 Southwest Contractor Magazine
    Best of 2004/2005 Design Awards
    Editor’s Choice Award

  • 2004 Metal Architecture
    2004 Design Awards
    Honorable Mention

  • 2001 American Institute of Architects (AIA)/Arizona
    Citation Award – Unbuilt Structures

  

Publications:

Books:

DETAILS IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE (AsBuilt), 2007
Princeton Architectural Press 2007 (Publisher)
Christine Killory & René Davids, Author

PHOENIX: 21ST CENTURY CITY, 2006
Booth-Clibborn Editions (Publisher)

100 DEGREES of DESIGN, 2006
Finding Design in the Desert: 100 Places We Love
(Desert Living)

ARCHITECTURE HIGHLIGHTS, 2005
Shanglin A & C Limited (China)
Yanli Hu – Chief Editor

Magazines:

AZ/RE (Arizona Commercial Real Estate) Sept/Oct 2007

ARCHITECTURE MAGAZINE Oct 2004

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD Jan 2005

DESERT LIVING MAGAZINE Mar/Apr 2004

COSTRUIRE (Italy) Jul/Aug 2005

REAL ESTATE & CONSTRUCTION REVIEW
(Southwest Edition) 2005

SOUTHWEST CONTRACTOR Dec 2004

SOUTHWEST CONTRACTOR Mar 2003

SHADE Aug/Sept 2004

SOURCES & DESIGN Fall 2006

SOURCES & DESIGN Spring 2004

Newspapers:

Arizona Republic, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Section
“Book Trumpets Artistic Opportunities in the Valley”
November 2006
Phoenix 21st Century City including SMCC PAC
Sunday, November 5, 2006