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Herzog & de Meuron and Piet Oudolf unveil designs for Calder Gardens in Philadelphia

September 7, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
Herzog de Mueron Calder Museum

Swiss architecture studio Herzog & de Meuron and Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf have teamed up to create Calder Gardens in Philadelphia, which will house works by American sculptor Alexander Calder. Herzog & de Meuron has designed a 17,695-square-foot (1,643 square-metre) two-storey structure for Calder Gardens, much of which will be located underground. “A kind

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Deborah Berke renovates and expands historic buildings at University of Pennsylvania

March 8, 2022 Jenna McKnight 0
Guesthouse University of Pennsylvania

US studio Deborah Berke Partners has overhauled a pair of Victorian-era townhouses at the University of Pennsylvania and added a terracotta-clad extension that is meant to be contextually sensitive. The building, called the Meeting and Guesthouse, is located on the Ivy League university’s campus in Philadelphia. It is part of a newly established precinct with

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Local Projects uses light to guide visitors at Faith and Liberty Discovery Center

November 24, 2021 Natashah Hitti 0
Local Projects designs interactive exhibition spaces for Faith and Liberty Discovery Center

Design studio Local Projects has created an interactive exhibition space for the American Bible Society, which aims to present itself as a “beacon of light” along Philadelphia’s Independence Mall. Located along the three-block section of the city’s Independence National Historical Park, the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center explores the impact the Bible has had on

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Foster + Partners completes hospital with striped facade for University of Pennsylvania

November 11, 2021 James Parkes 0
The hospital is located in Pennsylvania

Architecture firm Foster + Partners has designed an inpatient facility for the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which is intended to serve as an example of a “hospital of the future”. Located in the University City district of West Philadelphia, the facility was built beside the University of Pennsylvania and a collection of hospital buildings

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Frank Gehry unveils renovation and extension of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

May 6, 2021 India Block 0
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has designed new galleries and public spaces as part of a revamp of the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Pennsylvania. The museum’s new spaces will open to the public tomorrow on 7 May 2021 after a four-year-long renovation. Called the Core Project, the renovation and extension encompassed 90,000-square-feet (8,360

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Steven Holl shapes Winter Visual Arts Building around 200-year-old trees

October 7, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Winter Visual Arts Building by Steven Holl Architects in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Curving glass walls enclose the Winter Visual Arts Building, which Steven Holl Architects has completed in the arboretum of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The sculptural three-storey arts centre, first revealed by Steven Holl Architects in 2016, forms part of the US college’s new Arts Quad and contains studios, classrooms, and offices. Winter

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MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library

May 6, 2020 Eleanor Gibson 0
MuseumLab by Koning Eizenberg Architecture

US firm Koning Eizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. Koning Eizenberg Architecture (KEA) designed the transformation of the damaged library into MuseumLab for the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. It forms an extension of its campus

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ISA builds Philadelphia apartment complex XS House with “extremely narrow footprint”

January 14, 2020 Bridget Cogley 0
XS House by ISA

Architecture studio ISA has built a slender housing complex in Philadelphia by making the most of a plot of land about the width of a parking spot. XS House is a six-storey apartment building in the city’s Chinatown neighbourhood, alongside a busy highway called Vine Street Expressway. It is located on a narrow plot of land that

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Frank Gehry restores entrance and vaulted corridor at Philadelphia Museum of Art

November 14, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Philadelphia Museum of Art phase one by Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry has completed work on the first stage in the major renovation of Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, over a decade after he was first enlisted to design the project. The museum opened a number of new elements to the public including the North Entrance – a street-level side entrance that was used when the

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Foster + Partners completes Philadelphia’s tallest building

October 24, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0

Foster + Partners’s Comcast Technology Center skyscraper in Philadelphia contains “Silicon Valley-style” work spaces topped with a 12-storey Four Seasons hotel. The British firm’s 341-metres-tall skyscraper at 1800 Arch Street is built next to the Comcast Center, which was completed in 2008, to create a campus for cable company Comcast. The Comcast Technology Center comprises three stepped

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