The is one of five nominees for Building of the Year, in a contest run by an international architectural Website.
The $26.6 million centerpiece of a new arts and entertainment campus being developed around the old Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces is competing with a concert hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, an opera house in China, an arts center in Portugal and a reindeer observation pavilion in Norway.
ArchDaily.com, which bills itself as the world’s most visited architecture Website, is running the contest. The ArtsQuest Center and its designers, of Bethlehem, is nominated in the cultural category of new building. There are 14 categories in all.
The Website includes a full description of the SteelStacks project, which can be seen here. Voting continues until March 6.
- John G. Lewis
I know the project may be low on funds, and I have suggested (formerly) that Lehigh Un. consider helping them out. And if it comes to that, as the last alternative for success, I would say we should do it. Yes, sell some of the endowment (1%)... in possible in return for ownership of the steel mills themselves and the riverfront (or some similar deal), and let's get this done. True enough, a general principle of mine is not to be rash, as I have seen to much of this in regard to building and construction. But when one is presented with what is most probably is a very nice center after all, which is to help spruce up, and even more so, the recent rebuilding of the south side, and on top of this, is up for architectural awards, it is in all likelyhood a project that should completed! Therefore, let's work with the architects, the town planners and representatives, and if necessary, the University, and see this through. - John G. Lewis '90