vanized steel frames light the walkways. A tree-lined path connects the amphitheater lawn to PNC Plaza’s performance space. A playground, picnic grove, enormous industrial flywheel and an outdoor stage and screen at PBS Plaza animate the Square. A flamegenerating steel “bridge”, designed by artist Elena Colombo, arcs over the Square. To make space for the Levitt Pavilion and amphitheater, WRT orchestrated a big move - the realignment of the public street that cut through the site - to both make room for the amphitheater to be placed on axis with Founder’s Way, and to seize the magnificent blast furnaces as a backdrop of their own. The pavilion itself, inspired by the enigmatic structures found throughout the complex, was conceived as large-scale sculpture, one that suggests a work still in progress. The majesty of the iconic blast furnaces provides a monumental backdrop for this new civic space, with the raw power of the site’s tectonic qualities reflected in the new square and pavilion’s integrated landscape architectural/architectural expression.
LOCATION: Bethlehem, PA
Mechanical/Electrical Engineer:
ARCHITECTURE: Wallace Roberts &
Lehigh Valley Engineering
Todd; Antonio Fiol-Silva, FAIA, Principal
Pavilion Structure (band shell):
-in-Charge; William Cline, AIA; Karen
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Blanchard, AIA
Pavilion Structure (service build-
LAndscape Architecture: Wallace
ing): Klein and Hoffman, Inc.
Roberts & Todd; Ignacio Bunster-Ossa,
Pavilion MEP: Lehigh Valley Engineering
FLASA, Principal -in-Charge; David Ostrich,
Pavilion Acoustical: Metropolitan
ASLA; Keiko Cramer, Doug Meehan, Eliza-
Acoustics LLC
beth Keary
Pavilion theatrical Lighting: Envi-
Historical Preservation Architec-
ronmental Acoustics, Inc.
ture and Wayfinding: Artefact, INC
Construction: Alvin H. Butz, Inc.
Lighting Design: L’Observatoire Interna-
Photography: Paul Warchol Photogra-
tional
phy, WRT
Environmental Engineer: HDR Engineering , Inc Civil Engineer: Keystone Consulting Engineers, INC Structural and Restoration Engineer: Klein and Hoffman, Inc
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