The HGA-designed Reich Hall was selected as a Merit Winner in the Cultural category.
ARCHITECT magazine’s annual Architecture and Interior Design Awards honor outstanding commercial architecture and interior design that inspires joy and fosters community growth. With over 200 entries worldwide, 19 winners were selected in the categories of Honors, Merit, and Honorable Mentions.
Marlboro Music’s Reich Hall was selected as a Merit winner in the Cultural category. HGA’s integrated team of architects, engineers, interior, lighting, and landscape designers worked collaboratively to imagine the Cape Cod-inspired design with simple gabled form that is closely tied to Marlboro’s identity.
“It’s a really thoughtful way of dealing with the hillside in a constrained space.” — Juror Tima Bell, Assoc. AIA
Every summer since 1951, world-renowned classical musicians have gathered to take part in a seven-week festival focused on creative collaboration. The new Marlboro Music Reich Hall relieves the program’s aging farmhouse buildings, set on what once was a college campus, with a 21st-century design that offers the highest quality environment for festival musical rehearsals, a music library, and office and gathering spaces that address contemporary needs.
With a design inspired by a Cape Cod cottage, Reich Hall captures the spirit of Marlboro in the Vermont Green Mountains. Born of necessity with an aesthetic of restraint, the building’s small footprint, sloped roofs, compact volumes, and local materials reinforce Marlboro Music’s place within the lush rolling hills and streams of the Green Mountains.