Architect and artist Maya Lin has been picked to design a new performing-arts studio building for Bard College in upstate New York.

The US$42m project – worth £36m at current exchange rates – will provide 2,300sq m of additional facilities for the performing arts college, including five state-of-the-art studios for artist residencies, rehearsals, informal performances, and dance and theater classes.

The space will support the college’s Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center, which has two theatres for bigger scale performances, as Bard expands its programme. That building completed in 2003 at a cost of US£62m.

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