Spillman Farmer Architects specializes in architectural and interior design for clients in college, university, higher education, campus, public schools, private schools, and k-12 and primary schools. Our diverse firm also designs architecture for the healthcare and hospital, commercial, real estate development, pharmaceutical, biotech, technology, banking, and financial markets.
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ARCHITIZER A+ AWARDS
Spillman Farmer Architects is honored to announce that the Architizer A+ Awards jury has chosen the ArtsQuest Center as a winner in the Architecture+Urban Transformation category.
Featured Higher Ed Project
KING'S COLLEGE SCANDLONGYMNASIUM
The new expansion to the King's College athletics, student recreation, and health sciences facility is constructed on a compact, sloping, urban site in downtown Wilkes-Barre.
Featured Workplace Project
TAU
This technology incubator, currently being designed by SFA and the City of Bethlehem, repurposes the former Bethlehem Steel General Office Building into a dynamic workplace for innovation.
Featured Cultural Project
ARTSQUEST CENTER
The ArtsQuest Center, occupying 68,000SF on the former Bethlehem Steel site, plays a critical role in the creation of a vibrant public space in Bethlehem's urban core. The ArtsQuest Center has become a cultural incubator for a region that is re-inventing itself for the post-industrial age.
Featured Workplace Project
PARTNERSHIP FORINNOVATION
Pi is a post-incubator facility for technology-oriented startup companies in the Lehigh Valley. Through modest architectural interventions, the project's raw, adaptable interior spaces foster invention amongst incubator tenants.
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DETAIL IN CONTEMPORARYCONCRETE ARCHITECTURE
Spillman Farmer Architects' Design Principal Joseph N. Biondo's work was recently published in "Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture" by David Phillips and Megumi Yamashita.
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Featured Mixed Use Project
RUCKUS BREWERY
Interventions for Ruckus Brewing Co. at former Neuweiler Brewery will reinterpret the site's its history for Allentown's emerging future. The nostalgia of the site will be communicated through authenticity in material, form, function, and sustainability.
Featured Higher Ed Project
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ARTSPLAZA
The Arts Plaza at Lafayette College is a raw, open-air space for the arts. This distinctive space was envisioned as an outdoor black box that can host a wide array of planned and spontaneous artistic endeavors.
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AIA PENNSYLVANIAARCHITECTURAL EXCELLENCEAWARDS
The Pennsylvania chapter of the American Institute of Architects has awarded a Silver Medal, the institute's highest honor, to the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks.
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Featured Cultural Project
SIGAL MUSEUM
With the dream of showcasing its collection and providing hands-on activities and experiential learning to the public, Northampton County Historical & Genealogical Society commissioned Spillman Farmer Architects to adaptively reuse an existing building and help make history come alive.
Featured Higher Ed Project
BRYN ATHYN COLLEGEDOERING SCIENCE CENTER
Spillman Farmer Architects recently completed Bryn Athyn College's new multidisciplinary science building. This three-story 39,000 SF facility supports the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Environmental Sciences...
Publication - Casabella 806
IL COLOSSO INDUSTRIALE
Artsquest Center is featured in CASABELLA 806 with a group of projects that explore the idea of the “ruin” in current architectural thinking. Patrick Ruggiero took a break from his studies in Florence this semester to share the October edition fresh off the newsstand.
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Featured Corporate Project
BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGYPARTNERS TECHVENTURES2
Ben Franklin Technology Partners TechVentures2 is a large expansion to the original TechVentures building, a business incubator facility that provides workspace to meet the needs of emerging technology-oriented businesses.
Featured Higher Ed Project
LAFAYETTE COLLEGEWILLIAMS VISUAL ARTSCENTER
Situated at the base of College Hill in Easton PA, the Williams Visual Arts Center is a transformation of a former auto parts store into a dynamic art studio and gallery...
Publication - Architect
ARTSQUEST CENTER ATSTEELSTACKS
Many thanks to everyone who made this possible, the people in the trenches getting it built, the wild dreamers who kept focus of the big picture, the civic leaders who cleared the path, the donors who funded the dream, and any individual along the way that gave us a push in the right direction. Your tireless efforts have finally “paid dividends” as we like to say amongst ourselves at SFA.
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Featured K-12 Project
EASTON AREA MIDDLE SCHOOL
Easton Area School District selected Spillman Farmer Architects to design its new middle school campus to accommodate current needs and the projected population growth...
Featured Higher Ed Project
DICKINSON COLLEGE CENTRALENERGY PLANT
Dickinson College's program for its Central Energy Plant addition was straightforward: extend the existing 80,000 SF building to accommodate the boilers and cooling towers required to serve the campus' energy requirements...
Featured Master Plan Project
SIMON SILK MILL
The R&H Simon Silk Mill was, in its heyday, one of the most advanced and largest facilities of its kind in the world. However, with the decline of the textile industry in America, the Silk Mill was slowly abandoned...
News
TWO SFA PROJECTS ATPRAGUE QUADRENNIAL
Two SFA projects, the ArtsQuest Center at Steel Stacks and Lafayette College's Arts Plaza, were featured in the juried Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, the principal international exhibition of theatre design and scenic design...
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Featured Higher Ed Project
ELON UNIVERSITYCOLONNADES DINING CENTER
When Elon University opened the doors of its first new dining facility it set a new standard in campus dining. The University's goal was to offer locally grown produce and a variety of dining experiences in one building...
Featured K-12 Project
ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCHDINING HALL
The Academy of the New Church's Dining Hall was originally constructed in the 1920s. This 7200 SF building's architecture reveals the vernacular of the early 20th Century Philadelphia suburbs in which it is located...
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SHIPPENSBURG UNIVERSITYRECREATION CENTER
For its new Student Recreation Center, Shippensburg University envisioned dynamic spaces that would support fitness and wellness...
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