The Center for Dance is a six-story, 115,000-square-foot facility with nine dance studios, a dance lab, and artistic, administrative and support facilities for Houston Ballet and its academy. Clad in black granite, the contemporary facility features large picture windows that serve as a frame for the dancers as they work in their rehearsal studios. Gensler crafted the facility with linear and neutral colored spaces to create a gallery-like space within which dancers become works of art.