Our joint venture team with Design Collective Inc. of Baltimore, has designed a dramatically expanded arts campus that renovates the existing 166,000 s.f. Arts Building and adds to it a 135,000 s.f. expansion.

The project includes four performing arts venues and an extensively expanded program of studios, classrooms, rehearsal halls and administrative space for all of the performing and fine arts departments. The site anchors one end of Towson University’s rapidly growing campus and the Center for the Arts will be a fresh and contemporary public façade that reflects the school’s growth.

The Center for the Arts will be part of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology’s architecture exhibit “Performance Spaces for a New Generation: training facilities for the performing arts in the United States”, at USITT’s International Exhibit in Prague, Summer 2007.

Award Winning Design
Gold Award, International Interior Design Association (IIDA), Mid-Atlantic Chapter, 2007

Honor Award for Architectural Excellence, The American Institute of Architects/Potomac, MD Chapter, 2006

Project Info
Cost: $42,000,000
Complete: Opened Fall 2005
Scope: Architecture, Interior Design, Construction Administration
Client: Towson University, UMB
Staff: Scott Wilson, AIA; Scott Butler, AIA; Bob Lee, AIA; Tony Ricci, AIA; Barbara Sherman, IIDA; Laura Mandat

arts / entertainment

education

“Complicated and functionally demanding addition to an existing building; circulation and flow of spaces are compelling. We especially commend the central atrium.”
Honor Award for Architectural Excellence, The American Institute of Architects/Potomac, MD Chapter, 2006

“Wow! What a fabulous experience that charrette was for all of us. Your dedication to this process and your generous inclusion of our every interest and concern...The faculty feel a tremendous sense of trust in you as a colleague, fellow artist and friend...we feel this project is as important to you as it is to us.”
Maravene Loeschke, former Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communications, Towson University