Engineering News Record (ENR) recently named Becker Morgan Group’s Performing Arts Theater at the Ocean City Convention Center a Merit Award winner in the Mid-Atlantic Best Cultural Projects category. This awards competition recognizes the region’s best achievements in design and construction. The jury focused on projects that overcame significant challenges; adopted innovative approaches; executed exceptional design and craftsmanship; and maintained safe sites. Winning projects will be featured in a special Mid-Atlantic edition of ENR in October and an awards ceremony will be held on November 6, 2015 in Baltimore, MD.
Ocean City, Maryland’s new Performing Arts Center transformed two stories of underutilized exhibit space within the Ocean City Convention Center. The 1,200-seat performance venue offers tiered seating, state-of-the-art lighting, audio, video, and stage equipment, for a wide variety of events. The adaptive reuse of an existing, occupied facility, required intensive coordination by the entire design team to successfully retrofit multiple levels of existing structure into a seamless theater environment. Becker Morgan Group provided Architectural, Civil Engineering, and Interior Design services with consulting architects GWWO, Inc. of Baltimore, Maryland.
Becker Morgan Group provides Architecture and Engineering services with offices in Maryland, Delaware, and North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.beckermorgan.com.
