[1] ImaginOn was designed by Gantt Huberman Architects and Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture,[2] and is owned by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

ImaginOn hosts the Spangler Children's Library; the Teen Loft, a library for the teens of Mecklenburg County; Time Warner Tech Central; the Story Lab, a collection of interactive multimedia workstations exploring the arts of narrative; Studio I, an audio/video recording and animation studio; the Hugh McColl Family Theatre (seating capacity 570); and the Wells Fargo Playhouse (seating capacity 250), as well as administrative offices for the Children's Theatre of Charlotte and library staff.

[6] The national winners of the 2007 and the 2008 Young Adult Public Service Announcement contests sponsored by the Collaborative Summer Reading Program were produced by teens using Studio I.

The McColl Family Theatre is a proscenium theater with trapped stage and single purchase fly system.

The Wells Fargo Playhouse is designed as a theater with a modified thrust configuration and a reconfigurable proscenium.