ArtsQuest Center Given Architectural Award
American Institute of Architects, Pennsylvania, gives Bethlehem's Spillman Farmer its highest honor, a Silver Medal, for ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks.
The American Institute of Architects, Pennsylvania, has awarded a Silver Medal, the organization's highest honor, to Spillman Farmer Architects of Bethlehem for their design of the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks. The ArtsQuest Center, which opened almost a year ago in the shadow of the iconic, 285-foot-tall Bethlehem Steel blast furnaces, is home to the Musikfest Café, the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas, a gift shop and a number of other spaces for performance and private and community functions. AIA jurors praised the project saying, “The design captures the energy and utilitarian beauty that the best of the industrial revolution once offered. At the same time it demonstrates the power that a truly successful marriage of architecture and…
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John G. Lewis
8:31 pm on Friday, April 6, 2012
It's great, I think, that everyone I have heard from loves the new sight, and building. I hope to visit Bethlehem this summer (I live in NH)... and Arts Quest will certainly be one of the places to check out! Much change has come to the city since the 1980's. - John L. more ›