“Penn had evolved to the point where all these disciplines are really talking to one another.

Olshin found himself returning to principles he’d seen put into practice at PennDesign. Olshin’s firm, Atkin Olshin Schade (AOS), undertook an 18-month, $56 million renovation, funded by EBRM, the property’s developer. “It was built out of solid reinforced concrete and had these amazing roof trusses that kept it from collapsing after years of water damage.” However, despite the building’s dilapidated appearance, its structure was largely intact. Olshin, a lecturer at Bryn Mawr College, said. It had been vandalized and every bit of copper had been stolen,” Mr. “The finishes were torn out, the windows were broken, much original plasterwork was gone, the roof was shot. When Sam Olshin (C’82, G’Ar’86) first stepped into the abandoned Met, several years of vacancy had caused the building to fall into serious disrepair. In the succeeding decades, the theater served a variety of purposes, including ballroom, sports venue and, most recently, a church. The theater hosted opera productions until 1934, when it became a movie theater. It had the largest capacity (over 4,000 seats) of any theater of its kind in the world when it opened.

Opened in 1908 with a production of Carmen, the Met (as it is affectionately known) was built by Oscar Hammerstein I, a theater impresario and the grandfather of the well-known lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II. Philadelphia’s historic Metropolitan Opera House, located at Broad and Poplar Streets in North Philadelphia, has undergone a painstaking renovation over the past couple years.

The Power of Penn campaign will be hosting an event tonight at a newly renovated historic building renovated by an architect with a Penn connection. This trademark is owned by Holy Ghost I, LP.National Architecture Week: Renovation of Philadelphia’s Historic Metropolitan Opera House The federal status of this trademark filing is ABANDONED - FAILURE TO RESPOND OR LATE RESPONSE as of Monday, July 16, 2018. The USPTO has given the PHILADELPHIA METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE trademark a serial number of 87584363. On Friday, August 25, 2017, a trademark application was filed for PHILADELPHIA METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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