Local firm Good City Studios and Hexagon Studio Architects have changed a historical turbine hall a historically replacement Philadelphia The bowlers consist of power plant, a sports club which includes indoor pickle, football and squash courts.
Bowlers Fishtown, Philadelphia, is located inside a part of the newly renovated delaware power station, which was recently converted into a mixed-utilization complex Battery This includes residential and retail places. The power station was constructed in the early 1900s and was in use until 2005, and most of the Tranformation was done by the Architecture Studios Strada,
The bowlers are located in the former turbine hall of the building, which is spread over a horizontal amount between the original entrance hall and the water facing water, which is now filled with apartments and a roof pool, which is sandwich between spotted smokstax.
Sports courts are stretched out with the ground level and a meygenine level, while a restaurant is partially attached to the center, and small social spaces and courts reflect the circumference.
Amanda Potter, founder of Good City Studios and Chief Creative Officer of Ballers, who worked with a local firm Hexagon studio architect On the project, the scale of the building and the column-free, sky-lit 75-Foot-Lamba (23-meter) hall said, “made the space incredibly favorable to court games”.
“The grand roof and immense sections of the column-free region made the space incredibly favorable to the game of the court,” Potter told Dezen
“The courts and farms almost placed themselves when we went to sketch the plans – the golf simulator and the squash courts originally fit for an inch within a more narrow lodge space on the second floor.”
Potter said that the overall beauty of the bowlers was informed by it East, abandoned stateWhere it was “ahead of the weather, wandals and anything rather talented graffiti artists”.
After its update, the team decided to hire local frescoes. Tiff urquehart To tag the walls and leave the cladding and interior minimum.
For its restaurants and other regions, Potter included vintage pieces and individual elements, such as a bright-yellow, steel cage that stands behind the bar, which was informed with her love to Gianni Versache as a teenager in the 1990s.
Bowlers Philadelphia Outpost is one of the two other places in works in Boston and Los Angeles.
It is supported by athletes such as Andre Agassi and Slone Stephens and Philadelphia 76ers David blitzerAccording to the team.
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Other power plant conversions in the United States include one in Brooklyn, New York Swiss Studio Herzog and D Meron converted to an art center,
Is by photography Peter Sharno
