Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

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Rubber Pads
August 1999 - May 2001

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Fearing that vibrations from the Broad Street Subway might leave audiences and performers shaken, The Kimmel Center’s design team bounced around an ingenious solution: rubber. Not long after the Center’s Broad Street site was cleared and excavated, hundreds of rubber "isolation" pads began arriving from Scougal Rubber of Seattle, Washington.

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