Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham, NC
Somerhill Gallery’s architect and friend, Phil Szostak, and his firm, Szostak Design, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, have received a 2009 Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects of North Carolina for their design of the Durham Performing Arts Center in Durham, NC.
Somerhill Gallery is extremely pleased to offer Szostak Design our congrats!
From www.szostakdesign.com:
The Durham Performing Arts Center is a 2,800 seat proscenium theater, designed to accommodate touring stage shows, concerts, and locally produced performances.
…The theater combines a simply composed, highly efficient theatrical house with a dramatic, multi-level public lobby. Movement upward through the lobby is animated by two grandly scaled staircases that wrap the building’s perimeter. The building’s façade is clad in a thinly drawn curtain wall that features an interplay of clear and fritted insulating glass, focusing attention on prominent interior features of the building, particularly those that frame significant views outward to cityscape.
Recently, DPAC has won the 2009 Durham Golden Leaf Award for design excellence, the 2009 Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women’s Champion Community Enhancement Award, and the 2009 AWI Architectural Woodwork Institute Award for Excellence for interior woodworking and cabinetry (Awarded to Triangle Casework).
To read more about Szostak Design and to view more photos of the firm’s work, click here.
Images courtesy of Szostak Design.
