The newly-renovated Township Auditorium in Columbia, South Carolina opened its doors in June. Craig Gaulden Davis collaborated with Stevens & Wilkinson of Columbia to produce a design that moved the circa-1930 structure’s entrance facade 25 feet towards Taylor Street. New Lobby space and badly-needed support facilities were constructed in the gap. The 3000-seat auditorium itself was repainted …

Renovations to the lobby of the Abbeville Opera House were completed in June. The Opera House, constructed in 1908, is the centerpiece of this 250-year-old town and houses some of the City’s offices. Craig Gaulden Davis’ interior designers recommended the color scheme based on original newspaper accounts of the Opera House’s opening and evidence on …

Craig Gaulden Davis launched its work on the design for a new performing arts building at Emory & Henry College in a way designed to gather information and impression quickly from as large a group as possible. Using a technique called a “charrette”, CGD and consultants spent two days on the southwest Virginia campus: the …

Bids received from general contractors, for renovations to the Township Auditorium in Columbia, SC, were twenty-five percent below estimates, apparently reflecting aggressive pricing by subcontractors. The apparent low bidder, Contract Construction of Ballentine, SC, submitted a base bid of just under $7.4 million. None of the bids were higher than the $10 million expected. The …

Emory & Henry College has selected Craig Gaulden Davis of Greenville, SC to provide architectural design services for the Woodrow W. McGlothlin Center for the Arts. The Center is expected to include two performance spaces – a proscenium theatre and black box, or studio, theatre – along with support space for rehearsal, dressing, and set …