Hunter College - The Frederick Loewe Theatre
Address:
New York, NYClients:
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
James Harb Architects
257B W 19th Street 2 FL
New York, NY 10011
The Frederick Loewe Theatre is a 50′ x 54′ black box performance space where most of the Theatre Department’s productions are rehearsed, built, and staged. Located on the first floor of the landmark building named for Thomas Hunter, it is extremely flexible and intimate, with modular seating accommodating 116 spectators in proscenium, thrust or arena arrangements. It has fully equipped men’s and women’s dressing rooms with showers, a state-of-the-art DAT/CD/tape sound system, a 96-channel computerized light board, and a full component of lighting instruments.
The project consisted of an HVAC retrofit to double the system capacity with minimal impact to the existing theater and finishes which had been renovated in 1998. The renovation in 1998 did not satisfactorily address the air conditioning requirements. CE accomplished the task by replacing the existing DX equipment with new chilled water equipment and engineering the system to provide lower supply air temperatures.