New Performance Area
After careful consideration the firm of Purdy O’Gwynn was selected to develop a design for the new outdoor performance area at Abington Art Center. Purdy O’Gwynn proposed a flexible stage that will have a minimal, yet elegant year round presence that would be unobtrusive to the Sculpture Park. The performance area will be seasonally active and will provide space for any number of different events and functions. Below is a sampling of pictograms that show the flexible uses of the performance area. The project will move ahead as funding permits. At this time the goal is to have the stage built and active by summer 2008. Please help us make this a reality.
Purdy O’Gwynn Architects was formed around a collective desire to make buildings that elevate the quality of life. The firm was formed incrementally, with each partner adding distinct interests and strengths to the collective vision.
After starting the practice with a residential emphasis in 1994, Linda O’Gwynn was joined subsequently by her husband Tom Purdy in 1997. Tom worked at Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates on large, highly detailed buildings, primarily for library, museum, and university clients.
In order to achieve a consistently high level of design quality, the firm is organized with a Partner-in-Charge of each project who is intimately involved with both design and project management. Our office, located in a 19th century loft building near Independence Hall in Old City Philadelphia, provides an open studio environment for ten architects and interns.
While the majority of our recent work has been in the mid-Atlantic region, the partners have worked on projects throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Our focus has been the design of cultural, educational, religious and residential buildings. Representative clients include the Chemical Heritage Foundation, the Pennsylvania State University, the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission, the Doylestown United Methodist Church, the Fairmount Park Commission and the University of Pennsylvania.
The high quality of our work has been recognized by local and regional design awards, competition prizes, publication in various books and journals and invited teaching positions.
