文档介绍：Inauguration
Zaha Hadid
Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)
Cincinnati, Ohio
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The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) will inaugurate its new building, in the heart of downtown Cincinnati, on May 31, 2003.
With the move to this dynamic new building, the first free-standing home for the Center's pioneering programming, the CAC will e one of the most centrally located contemporary arts institutions in the nation.
The new Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art will extend the CAC's 64-year tradition of innovation by encouraging viewers, artists and art to interact in new ways within a presenting space.  
The Center, which broke ground in 2001, marks Hadid's mission in the .
The six-story 87,000 square-foot Center features 17,000 square feet of gallery space, the UnMuseum (a children's education center for participatory art installations, hands-on projects and other programs) and a 150-seat performance space, a bookstore, cafŽ kiosk and office facilities.
The concrete, steel and glass building features undulating levels and ramps to modate the varied shapes, scales and media of contemporary art. The galleries, that appear to float over the main lobby, connect and interlock like a three dimensional jigsaw puzzle, allowing for unobstructed viewing from all sides.
"The public lobby, where everyone enters, is downtown and central to the city so people who are just walking around can go in and have a coffee downstairs or hang around the lobby or go upstairs to quickly see a show. It is a very accessible building.
It's not pact building and there is a degree of transparency on the ground and above. So it's not only how we use it, but also how we pass through it.
Every time you confront the space you have a different experience".
Zaha Hadid
The Contemporary Arts Center will present the largest group exhibition in its history to inaugurate the new space. Somewhere Better than this Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contempo