A Unique Building Within A Building

When visitors, students, and performers walk through the doors of the new Midtown Arts Center for the first time next month, they’ll see big bright studios, convenient dressing rooms, large video screens, and a host of other amenities. Yet it’s what they won’t see that makes the seven-story building at 16th Avenue and Pearl streets in Eugene unique.

Designed by architect Paul Dustrud of Dustrud Architecture and built by Essex General Construction, the facility is really more like a “building within a building,” as Essex President Jon Texter describes. Read more...