Park Improvements Celebrate Arts & Culture
AOS Architects worked with the City of Allentown to design a reimagined use of the Arts Park green space. Bordered by the Allentown Museum of Art, Miller Symphony Hall, and the Baum School of Art, the Arts Park is the starting point of the City’s Arts Walk, a developing corridor of art, history, and culture.
The proposed renovation and addition to the Arts Park adds to its ethos of celebrating arts and culture by allowing it to function as a performing arts venue. The focal point of the Arts Park improvements is the Arts Park Pavilion, a new performance space and band shell that houses a green room and restroom for visiting performers. The Pavilion provides year-round accommodations for local and regional music and theater events including ticketed concerts, free public performances, and informal gatherings.
The Arts Park Pavilion is one piece of the multi-phased plan for the park. The full scope of the project includes new landscaping, paving and lighting that will improve the functionality and accessibility of the park and better connect the park to its surrounding urban context. Improvements to an existing plaza will further transform the space by adding an open-air café and additional gathering spaces.
Project Team:
Landscape Architect: Omnes Studio
Structural Engineer: Jon Morrison & Associates
"The level of aspiration that the Allentown Arts Park Pavilion has is incredible. It really is a very small object with a great impact that brings to life [the] public realm."Elaine Molinar, AIA
Partner & Managing Director, Snøhetta
2021 AIA PA Design Awards Juror
