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One Pace Plaza East: Your Floor-by-Floor Guide

By
Alyssa Cressotti
Posted
August 25, 2026
Detailed cross-section rendering of One Pace Plaza East.

One Pace Plaza East is officially open (FINALLY!), and there’s a lot to explore. The transformed building brings together new spaces to live, learn, create, perform, collaborate, and connect, all in the heart of Pace’s New York City Campus. Whether you’re heading to class, catching a performance, meeting up with friends, or simply curious about what’s behind those new doors, use this floor-by-floor guide to find your way around One Pace Plaza East.

Jump to the right floor: 

Cellar Level

  • Schimmel Theater
  • Orchestra Lobby
  • Setter Sips Cafe

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Garden Level

  • Garden Theater
  • Screening Room
  • Schimmel Theater balcony seating
  • Student Lounge
  • Maria’s Tower entrance
  • Setter’s Stoop

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First Floor

  • Small Dance Studio (E-110)
  • Sands Soundstage (E-180)
  • Entertainment Design Lab (E-170)
  • Scene Shop (E-160)
  • LX/AV Shops (E-120)
  • Prop Storage (E-164B)
  • Sands Production Offices (E-150, E-151, E-152)

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Second Floor

  • Black Box Theater (E-280)
  • Large Dance Studio (E-233)
  • Studio Classrooms (E-210, E-230, E-231, E-260, E-261, E-262, E-263)
  • Student Lounge (E-243)
  • Sands Adjunct Lounge (E-200)
  • Sands Faculty and Staff Offices (E-291–E-295)
  • Dance Changing Rooms (E-250, E-251)
  • Sands Pantry (E-290)

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Third Floor

Film and Media

  • Film and Screen Studios
    • Soundstage (E-336)
    • Post-Production Lab (E-382)
  • Animation Studio (E-381)

Audio and Communication

  • Podcast Studios (E-331, E-332, E-333, E-334)
  • ADR Recording Studio and Control Booth (E-321)
  • Vocal Studios (E-326, E-372, E-373, E-374, E-376)
  • Storytelling Studio (E-310)
  • Communication and Media Studies Classroom (E-320)

Design and Making

  • Makerspace (E-300, E-301, E-302)
    • Print Bay
    • Zine Library
    • Fabrication Lab

Sands College

  • Digital Design Lab (340)
  • Drafting Studio (342)
  • Costume Shop (360)
  • Sands Conference Room (390)
  • Sands Faculty and Staff Offices (392–395)

Other Spaces

  • Student Lounge (E-375)
  • General Classroom (E-370)

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Fifth Floor

  • Safety and Security
  • Emergency Management Operations
  • Education Media

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Maria’s Tower Residential Floors

  • Sixth Floor: Residential Life Offices and Health Services
  • Floors 7–16: Student residences
  • Seventeenth Floor: Student residences and laundry room
  • Eighteenth Floor: Student residences, Student Lounge, and student kitchen

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