| ImaginOn: The Joe and Joan Martin Center | |
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 Seventh Street Entrance | |
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| 35°13′38.00″N 80°50′15.85″W / 35.2272222°N 80.8377361°W | |
| Location | 300 East Seventh Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28202 Mecklenburg County, United States |
| Type | Partnership of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and Children's Theatre of Charlotte |
| Established | 2005 |
| Branch of | Charlotte Mecklenburg Library |
| Other information | |
| Director | Marcellus "MT" Turner (Library) Adam Burke & Nao Tsurumaki (Theater) |
| Website | ImaginOn |
ImaginOn: The Joe and Joan Martin Center is a collaborative venture of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and the Children's Theatre of Charlotte located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This 102,000-square-foot (9,500 m2) landmark learning center opened on October 8, 2005.[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.
ImaginOn is notable as the first LEED-certified public facility in Mecklenburg County.[3][4] ImaginOn is certified as a 'green' building at the silver level by the U.S. Green Building Council.[2][5]
- ^ "Combined children's library, theater set to open". Philanthropy Journal. August 2, 2005. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- ^ a b "Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture Official Website".
- ^ Jones, Harry (March 17, 2008). "2008 State of the County Address". charmeck.org. Archived from the original on July 29, 2003. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- ^ "ImaginOn - The Joe & Joan Martin Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States". World Architecture News. 2 November 2005. Retrieved 2008-10-24.
- ^ Hoyle, Amanda Jones (March 9, 2007). "Duke aims high on 'green' meter". Triangle Business Journal. Retrieved 2008-10-24.