Grand Arts anchors the north end of Los Angeles' "Grand Avenue Cultural Corridor," home to Disney Concert Hall, the Music Center, Colburn School of Music, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and The Broad Art Museum (slated to open in 2015). The 9.8 -acre campus was designed by Austrian architect Wolf Prix and his firm Coop Himmelb(l)au and garnered immediate acclaim. Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne comments, "When the school was finished, in December 2008, it became clear that it was a hybrid design, unlike anything Los Angeles had seen before." The conical library space, soaring Concert Hall lobby, and huge round windows that connect its 1,700 students to the surrounding city make Grand Arts a public school architectural wonder, consistently listed among the top ten worldwide. In addition to its contribution to the downtown landscape, Grand Arts is intended to be a public facility that can be enjoyed by the community as well. The school includes a 927-seat professional concert hall with a Broadway-sized proscenium stage, orchestra pit, and fully equipped sound and lighting booths; a 250-seat black box theatre; an outdoor amphitheater; a professional scene shop; photography and broadcast studios; multiple science and computer labs; specialized spaces equipped for art, music, and theatre classes; and four dance studios.