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Swope Music School and Performing Arts Center
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Westminster Rose CenterSwope Music School and Performing Arts Center
Client: West Chester University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Music
Date completed: August 2006
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Program: The 90,000-square-foot building includes the university’s music school, music library, student practice rooms, faculty and administration offices, a 375-seat performance hall, a 125-seat recital hall, and an art gallery.
Design concept and solution: While MGA Partners integrated the university’s music school and performing arts center into a single structure that shares an entrance and courtyard, the exteriors of the different programmatic spaces feature varied facade treatments. Warm green stucco selected for the school of music’s sinuous wall matches turn-of-the-century campus buildings clad in serpentine stone. The performance hall is clad in brick; the entrance courtyard in cast concrete.
Formal name of project: Swope Music School and Performing Arts Center
Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
Gross square footage: 90,000 sq.ft.
Site size: 155,400 sq. ft.
Total construction cost: $29,200,000
Owner:
Department of General Services of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Occupant:
West Chester University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Music
Architect:
MGA Partners
234 Market Street
Philadelphia PA 19106
P: 215-925-0100
F: 215-923-4258
www.mgapartners.com
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