THE consensus of opinion is that The Cube is “all white”.
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The rising structure that will be Wodonga’s performing arts space is making its own claim on the landscape with a white polycarbonate film now being used to clad the main performance area.
But the council’s cultural services manager Simone Hogg said there was still a lot to do.
“The feedback from the community is fantastic,” she said.
“We were always confident with the architects and the design and it is nice to see that come to fruition.
“It is certainly on track to be completed by the end of next year but there is still an enormous amount of work to be done.
“There is a lot of glass to come, the steelworks are almost complete, we have issued the contract for the retractable seating and there is one last piece of the slab to be poured.
“Internally some of the plaster work has started but the walls inside the performance space will have panelling designed to maximise the acoustics and that too is a major job.”
Ms Hogg said they expected to exceed the patronage from the old civic centre in the first year of business.
“We have already had a lot of interest from the community,” she said.
“We had 46,000 people use the old civic centre in the year before it was pulled down and we believe that we will have 50,000 people use this space in its first year and expect that number will continue to grow.
“The space is designed to meet a variety of needs from performance to workshops, lectures to conferences.”
In August councillors christened the $11.2 million arts and entertainment centre The Cube Wodonga.
It will have a capacity of 1140 people standing or 300 seats for a dinner dance-banquet.