This performing arts complex, sited here to seed development along a bare stretch of state highway between Midland and Odessa and to provide a performance space for both cities, was funded as part of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin (UTPB) along with private donations. It is composed of dynamically tilted superimposed wedges faced in limestone (BOORA’s homage to the faulted strata of the Permian Basin), stainless steel (in homage to the West Texas sky), and glass. The center contains an 1,800-seat flexible performance space, a 200-seat recital hall, a recording studio, and the offices and facilities of the UTPB Music Department.