UCI Will Get Maya Lin Makeover

The Claire Trevor Theater at the University of California, Irvine. Architect Maya Lin has designed a 30,000-square-foot outdoor arts plaza for the school's Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

Architect Maya Lin has designed an outdoor arts plaza that will become the focal point of the University of California at Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts. The $3.6 million project will include a 200-seat amphitheater, lighted pathways, a ?EUR??,,????'??water table?EUR??,,????'?? fountain and ?EUR??,,????'??whispering benches?EUR??,,????'?? that play music and recorded poetry.

Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. calls the project ?EUR??,,????'??a garden of perception.?EUR??,,????'??

About 24,000 students attend the Irvine, Calif. campus, but that number is expected to reach 40,000 eventually. Close to $700 million in building construction is now underway or in the planning stage.

Construction on the arts plaza will start in early 2005.