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Large Meeting Halls

The Brief: Create a comfortable, flexible space for hosting single or simultaneous lectures, workshops and reception dinners, for 25 - 300 people.

AxD designed this multi-purpose meeting suite with multiple built-in A/V systems and acoustical partitioning panels to allow the hall to be sub-divided, providing intimate meeting rooms. The large piers flanking the main meeting space create a side ambulatory and "Hall of Honors" for recognizing leaders in the scientific community.

Award:   Best Institutional Project, GBCA Philadelphia Construction Excellence Awards 2004

Design:   Ed Barnhart, principal-in-charge for Purdy O'Gwynn Barnhart

Photo:   Barry Halkin Photography