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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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Snøhetta designs Temple University’s Charles Library with “unusual geometry”

September 24, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Charles Library Temple University by Snohetta

Curved wooden entrances are carved into this university library that Snøhetta has completed for Temple University in Philadelphia. The four-storey Charles Library in North Philadelphia is sited in the heart of the university’s campus, with the business school to the south and the science and engineering buildings east. Rectangular in plan, the library building measures

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Frank Lloyd Wright house in Minnesota dismantled and moved to Pennsylvania

June 4, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
RW Lindholm House by Frank Lloyd Wright moved from Minnesota to Pennsylvania

A 1950s dwelling that is one of the Usonian homes that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for middle-class residents has been moved from its original site in Minnesota to a private estate located near Fallingwater. The RW Lindholm House – often referred to as Mäntylä, which is Finnish for “house among the pines” – was built

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Morris Adjmi creates homey atmosphere within Roost East Market hotel in Philadelphia

April 27, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Roost East Market Hotel in Philadelphia by Morris Adjmi Architects

Potted plants, bespoke light fixtures and Persian rugs are among the details in guest rooms at a residential hotel in the heart of Philadelphia, which was designed by Morris Adjmi Architects. The Roost East Market hotel is located within a 25-storey, glass-and-steel tower in Midtown Village, an urban district with an eclectic mix of shops, galleries and

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Gensler, HDR and Luis Vidal propose wave-shaped terminal for Pittsburgh Airport

February 26, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Pittsburg Airport Terminal by Gensler, HDR and Luis Vidal

Architecture firms Gensler, HDR and Luis Vidal have revealed a proposal for a new terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport, featuring an undulating rooftop and curved windows. Billed as a “new gateway for the region”, the 635,000-square-foot (58,993-square-metre) terminal will encompass ticketing, baggage claim, a meet-and-greet area, security checkpoint, along with retail and various concessions. Renderings

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Fallingwater outbuilding renovated into student workshop and studio by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

February 25, 2019 Dan Howarth 0
High Meadow Studio at Fallingwater by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

American firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has turned a garage close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house into an education centre for summer residency students. High Meadow Studio will be used as a hub for the Fallingwater Institute’s architecture, art and design programmes, which take place at the Pennsylvania landmark each year. The building is located

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ISA’s Tiny Tower residence fills leftover plot in Philadelphia

January 30, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Tiny Tower by ISA

Pennsylvania architecture studio ISA has designed a slender five-storey house in a developing Philadelphia neighbourhood, as a housing prototype for tiny vacant lots. ISA’s narrow Tiny Tower is built like a mini-skyscraper, using a steel-reinforced wood frame that is clad in painted metal across its exterior. Windows take up large portions of the street facade. Each of the

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Deborah Berke Partners clads High Street Residence Hall in stone and zinc

November 28, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Deborah Berke Partners has completed a student dormitory for a small Pennsylvania college, with different cladding materials on the building’s opposing sides. The High Street Residence Hall is located in the town of Carlisle on the campus of Dickinson College — a liberal arts school that was established in 1783, shortly after the

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