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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

A concrete sombrero crowns downtown El Paso. The Abraham Chavez Theatre at 1 Civic Center Plaza, beside the convention center, is a 2,500-seat concert hall whose circular, column-free Brutalist form - cast-in-place concrete walls, lozenge-shaped openings and a saddle-backed cable-hung roof that dips in the middle like a hat brim - made it the city's most recognizable building the moment it rose. Designer Bernard Mulville of Garland and Hilles was a Taliesin Fellowship alumnus, and the low ellipt...