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Sergio Mannino enlivens Philadelphia pharmacy with mauve and silver

April 13, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Brooklyn-based designer Sergio Mannino has chosen a palette of purple and silver for a Philadelphia pharmacy that helps patients affected by the opioid crisis. Located in the Philadelphia suburb of Cheltenham, the Angel Care Pharmacy is owned by Olivia Tchanque, who wanted the design of her space to reflect the care and sensitivity offered to

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Allied Works layers sandstone for facade of Pennsylvania museum

April 10, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Brooklyn architecture studio Allied Works has created a building with interlocking boxy forms clad in sandstone and steel for the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, USA. The sprawling structure serves as a home to The Pennsylvania State University’s (Penn State) art collections, which fill the galleries and storage areas of the 73,000-square-foot (6,781

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NORD Architects designs dementia care centre in Pennsylvania

March 19, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Copenhagen studio NORD Architects has designed its first project in the United States, a dementia care centre in Pennsylvania for elderly patients aimed at creating a welcoming environment to enhance knowledge and care around the disease. Called the Memory Care Center, the project will encompass a 150,700-square-foot (14,000 square metre) assisted-care campus that will host

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“Fashion meets art and design” at Pittsburgh boutique by NWDS

August 20, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Global team NWDS took a spontaneous approach to designing the Tons fashion boutique in Pittsburgh, which contains a mix of modest materials and iconic furniture pieces. The Tons store in the city’s East Liberty neighbourhood occupies a long, narrow building with its shorter side facing the street. Formerly an atelier, the two-storey structure was reimagined

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Shiftspace brings IM Pei rowhouse in Philadelphia back to “original vision”

July 3, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US studio Shiftspace has renovated a rowhouse in Philadelphia originally designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei, restoring its original qualities after decades of alterations. Designed by Pei as part of a row of houses in the 1950s, the three-storey unit in the Society Hill neighbourhood had undergone several renovations and extensions over the years. Shiftspace

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MSR Design places colourful buildings and walkways in skeleton of Pittsburgh steel mill

May 19, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Minneapolis-based architecture studio MSR Design has installed a tech campus within the shell of a 70-year-old abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania, adding three colourful buildings and adding a massive solar array to the rooftop. The adaptive reuse project is located on a former brownfield site just a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh, in the city’s

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ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility

January 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Portland-based studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community

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GBBN expands historic Pennsylvania residence with metal-clad education facility

November 22, 2022 Kate Mazade 0

US architecture studio GBBN preserved and expanded a 19th-century home in Erie, Pennsylvania into an educational facility with a glass bridge connection and metal-clad, barn-like structure. Completed in April 2022 for Pennsylvania State University Behrend, the Federal House Renovation & Addition project saw the conversion of the oldest brick building in the Harborcreek Township into a modern

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

September 7, 2022 Ben Dreith 0
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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 Partners 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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