© Jeffrey Totaro

.Jeffrey Totaro

架构师提供的文本描述。莱维特展馆是9.5英亩钢堆艺术与文化校园的焦点，这是前伯利恒钢铁厂大规模再开发的一部分，也是许多标志性建筑如金门大桥和克莱斯勒大厦的钢材来源。从设计上看，该厂的五座20层楼高的鼓风炉本身就是标志性的，构成了新创建的21世纪城市广场项目的戏剧性背景。在其重新设计的工业景观中，四个新的广场、一个游乐场、一个野餐区被编织在一起，中心矗立着列维特展馆。

Text description provided by the architects. The Levitt Pavilion is the focal point of the 9.5-acre SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus, part of the larger re-development of the former Bethlehem Steel mill, source of steel for many iconic structures like the Golden Gate Bridge and Chrysler building. By design, the mill’s five 20-story blast furnaces, iconic in their own right, form a dramatic backdrop the newly created 21st Century Town Square project. Knitted together in its repurposed industrial landscape are four new plazas, a playground, a picnic area, and at the heart of it stands the Levitt Pavilion.

 © Jeffrey Totaro

.Jeffrey Totaro

展馆既没有与生锈的堆叠混在一起，也没有在视觉上与它们竞争。包覆穿孔，不锈钢面板，壳是一个不对称的分段拱，接触地面在一边和悬臂在舞台上。它被认为是一个大型折纸样的折板雕塑-一个痛苦的暗示，尚未完成的工作。这一设计是坚决向前看的，但决心在新旧之间建立一种对话。当一个人在贝壳周围移动时，它的形态和特征就会发生变化，有时看起来是坚实的、整体的，有时是格子状的和透明的。圆形剧场碗的雪佛龙形状的十钢和预制混凝土挡土墙回声的折叠板的展馆的外壳，建立了一个对话，把整个场地联系在一起。新景观的开放空间和设计元素成为五座大型高炉强大规模和物理性的前景。作为一种重要的设计催化剂，关键的规划干预移除了东第一街(East First Street)的一段与创始人的道路相交的路段，取而代之的是一条宽曲线，这样就可以插入一个完美的圆形竞技场，将其置于战略位置，成为校园的中心。

The Pavilion neither blends with the rusted stacks nor visually competes with them. Clad in perforated, stainless-steel panels, the shell is an asymmetrical segmented arch that touches the ground on one side and cantilevers over the stage. It was conceived as a large-scale origami-like folded plate sculpture - one that poignantly suggests yet-to-be completed work. The design is resolutely forward-looking, yet intent on establishing a discourse between new and old. As one moves around the shell its form and character transform, at times appearing solid and monolithic, at times trellis-like and transparent. The amphitheater bowl’s chevron shaped COR-TEN steel and precast concrete retaining walls echo the folded plates of the pavilion’s shell, establishing a dialogue that binds the overall site together. The open space and design elements of the new landscape became a foreground to the powerful scale and physicality of the five gigantic blast furnaces. As a significant design catalyst, the critical planning intervention removed a segment of East First Street where it intersects Founder’s Way and replaced it with a wide curve to enable the insertion of an ideally shaped amphitheater strategically positioned to become the heart of the campus.

Architects WRT - Wallace Roberts & Todd

Location 789 East 1st Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015, United States

Category Pavillion

Project Year 2011

Photographs Paul Warchol, Jeffrey Totaro