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title: The Hockaday School - Centennial Fine Arts Center
description: Explore the transformative Fine Arts complex project at Hockaday Schools, featuring renovated spaces and new additions for a vibrant performing arts center in Dallas, TX.
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# The Hockaday School - Centennial Fine Arts Center

 Dallas, TX

## About the project

The Hockaday School is a prestigious private school serving 1,100 young women on a campus of 86 acres in north Dallas. The new Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Center for the Arts consists of 25,000 SF of renovated space and a 47,000 SF addition. The new center features a bigger theater with 620 seats, an art gallery with customizable exhibition space, a new 300-seat black box theater, an outdoor amphitheater, a redesigned ceramics studio, and expanded rooms for choir and orchestra. The new fine arts facility opened for the 2016-2017 school year. 

 

## Project Overview

 Owner

 Hockaday Schools

 Project Delivery

 CM@Risk

 Architect

 GFF

 Project Details

 72,000 SF   
 Addition and Renovations

### Project Gallery

![01- Exterior-3](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/01-%20Exterior-3.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=01-%20Exterior-3.jpg) ![02- Night Exterior](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/02-%20Night%20Exterior.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=02-%20Night%20Exterior.jpg) ![03-Lobby](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/03-Lobby.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=03-Lobby.jpg) ![04-Lobby](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/04-Lobby.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=04-Lobby.jpg) ![05-Lobby](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/05-Lobby.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=05-Lobby.jpg) ![06-Theatre Entrance](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/06-Theatre%20Entrance.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=06-Theatre%20Entrance.jpg) ![07-Theatre Overview](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/07-Theatre%20Overview.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=07-Theatre%20Overview.jpg) ![08-Theatre Overview](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/08-Theatre%20Overview.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=08-Theatre%20Overview.jpg) ![09-Theatre Overview](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/09-Theatre%20Overview.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=09-Theatre%20Overview.jpg) ![10-Theatre Overview](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/10-Theatre%20Overview.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=10-Theatre%20Overview.jpg) ![11-Theatre Overview](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/11-Theatre%20Overview.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=11-Theatre%20Overview.jpg) ![12-Theatre Birdseye](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/12-Theatre%20Birdseye.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=12-Theatre%20Birdseye.jpg) ![13-Band Room](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/13-Band%20Room.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=13-Band%20Room.jpg) ![14-Art Gallary](https://www.leelewis.com/hs-fs/hubfs/14-Art%20Gallary.jpg?width=1400&height=850&name=14-Art%20Gallary.jpg)

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