Schwarzman Centre opens in Oxford
The brand-new Schwarzman Center for the Humanities has recently opened at the University of Oxford. The Center will house at least nine faculties across the Humanities Division, and has a number of specialist music spaces, including the 500-seat Sohmen Concert Hall.
The center is the university’s largest single building project, and was funded by a £150 million donation from Blackstone CEO Stephen A. Schwarzman. In 2019, Oxford described the donation as being the largest single gift that the university has received since the Renaissance.
The Center also features a black box experimental performance space, dance studio and cinema, an exhibition hall, and rehearsal rooms. In addition, the libraries of all the associated faculties have been conglomerated into one singular Bodleian Humanities Library.
