William Rainey Harper’s Index

Stats of the art


Photography by Dan Dry


Amount of Reva, X’43, and David, AB’39, JD’41, Logan’s 2007 gift to support the University’s Center for the Creative and Performing Arts: $35 million

Total cost of the building, slated to break ground in May 2010 and open in 2012 at 60th Street and Ingleside Avenue: $114 million

Finalists in the 2006–07 design competition that architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien won: 5

Square feet of the building, which will include theaters, studios, rehearsal space, screening rooms, classrooms, and set-construction shops: 170,000

Number of performance venues: 4

Capacity of the largest theater: 450

Square feet of exhibition space: 2,000

Number of floors: 11

Height of the Logan Center tower, in feet: 156

Height of Rockefeller Chapel: 207

Years from concept to planned completion: 8+

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