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Gala Dinner — Glass Atrium
180 at dinner in the ring a reflecting pool and a grand stair leave behind.
The Atheneum · Glass Atrium · 100′ × 78′, 44′ ceiling
Why it is laid out this way
- The usable floor here is a ring, not a rectangle: four of the twenty-two tables a grid would place land in the water, so they are not in the plan.
- The grand stair is left clear as the donors' entrance — the most valuable thing in the building, and it costs nothing to use it.
- Silent auction runs the east wall under the stair, where a queue has somewhere to go that is not between the tables.
What the plan measures
Capacity180 at dinner
SetupRounds of ten
Seats placed180
Objects placed65
Event space100′ × 78′, 44′ ceiling
Floor area7,800 ft²
Per seat43.3 ft²
Event typeCatered Meal · Nonprofit
The room it is drawn in
The event space is surveyed once and every diagram of it inherits this. It is why the plan above can be checked at all.
8points in the traced perimeter
6built features, each with a real height
5typed doors, with swings
Enclosed room. Floor: stone. Walls: glass.
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Other catered meal plans
- Benefit Gala — Grand Ballroom — 320 at dinner, ten auction tables, and a thrust nobody sits behind.
- Chef's Table — Aurelia Salon — 48 at two 24′ runs, with the pass facing the room.
- Wine Club Dinner — The Cellar — 24 at a single 24′ table, threaded exactly between two stone piers.
- Fundraiser Dinner — Fellowship Hall — 168 at rounds of eight, with the serving line where the kitchen can reach it.
- Awards Banquet — Union Ballroom — 210 at dinner, laid out around four structural columns rather than through them.
- Welcome Dinner — Aurelia Salon — 72 at two 36′ runs, because one down the middle would have to pass a column.
- Gala Dinner — Lone Star Ballroom — The chart says 1,525. With a stage, a dance floor and real service aisles, it seats 1,120.
- Convention Banquet — Sovereign Ballroom — 420 at dinner in a T-shaped ballroom, with the stage in the bay instead of on the floor.
Collections this plan is in
- Gala and fundraiser floor plans — 7 plans · Black-tie dinners, silent auctions and benefit nights, from 168 to 1,120.
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