The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts (known simply as the Granoff Center colloquially[1]) is a visual and performing arts facility at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
[2] Designed by New York–based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the building includes at 218-seat auditorium, as well as various other performance and exhibition spaces.
[4] The building is named for Perry and Martin Granoff, the primary benefactors of its construction.
[5] In a 2011 article published after the center's opening, New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff described the building as a "handsome piece of architecture," which "creates wonderful visual relationship.
[6] According to the Brown Daily Herald, the new Performing Arts Center is intended to serve as a performance–focused counterpart to Granoff, which functions as a “laboratory space.”[7] This article about a university or college in Rhode Island is a stub.