Articles Tagged with ''Philadelphia''

All Systems Go

All Systems Go

Austin + Mergold finds unconventional beauty in conventional materials.
Anna Fixsen
April 1, 2015
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Architecture firm Austin + Mergold selects materials often snubbed —vinyl siding, corrugated metal, concrete block—to create beautiful structures in rural contexts.


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Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology

The Art of Science: A new center for the study of nanotechnology merges landscape with building, and sculpture with architecture, reshaping a formerly bleak part of the University of Pennsylvania campus.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
November 15, 2013
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Although located in dense West Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania has a genuine campus—one organized around a series of green spaces and landscaped quadrangles carved out of the surrounding urban fabric.


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Golkin Hall, Penn Law School

Legal Threshold: Kennedy & Violich lighten up traditional materials in a new building for the University of Pennsylvania's law school.
William Hanley
November 15, 2012
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Golkin Hall, the latest addition to the University of Pennsylvania's law school, announces itself with a contradiction.


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The Modules

Out of the Box: The Modules, a student housing development by Interface Studio Architects, flaunts its construction method as it makes a case for well-designed prefab.
William Hanley
July 16, 2012
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The Modules want you to know how they were built. A privately owned student apartment building a few blocks from Temple University’s campus in North Philadelphia, the project touts its prefabricated construction in its branding.


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The Barnes Foundation

After a tempest over its relocation, an acclaimed art collection settles into its spacious new home.
Christopher Hawthorne
June 16, 2012
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There is a good deal to admire about the architecture of the new Barnes Foundation, which opened May 19 on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, just down the road from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The sober, handsome, and exquisitely detailed museum, designed by the increasingly busy New York City architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, offers a rare combination of material richness and spatial ingenuity.
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