USITT Announces Architecture Award Recipients for 2013

Theatreplan is proud to be associated with Garsington Opera Pavilion on the Wormsley Estate in Stokenchurch, High Wycombe, United Kingdom. Which has been awarded a Merit award for Architecture by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology.

The elegant, Japanese-inspired pavilion was designed by Snell Associates to be put up and dismantled each season. It was finished in May 2011 at a cost of $2.8 million (1.8 million British pounds).

USITT’s Architecture Awards are chosen based on creativity, contextual resonance, functional operation, use of new technology and community contribution. Each project will be represented in a special exhibit at USITT’s 2013 Stage Expo, where an awards reception will be held in their honor.

USITT’s Architecture Commission sponsors the awards, which are chosen by a panel that recommends them to the Board of Directors for final approval. The panel for the 2013 awards included Chicago-based Theatre Designer Robert Shook of Schuler Shook, Dawn Schuette, architect and designer with Threshold Acoustics in Chicago, and Architect Timothy Hartung of Ennead Architects in New York.

                                        Garsington Opera Pavilion Stage

                             Picnic tents with Opera Pavilion behind on a rainy 

                             preview evening in May 2011.