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Following last week’s visit to New York-based Bates Masi + Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Philadelphia this week to explore the work of KieranTimberlake. Founded in 1984, the firm describes its approach to architecture as an “alchemy of art, science, analysis... View full entry
Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design has revealed its rebranding as DesignPhiladelphia, according to an announcement the educational nonprofit made public recently. The name change heralds an expansion of services as an organization, which has been open to the public since... View full entry
The groundbreaking on SOM’s $550 million William H. Gray III 30th Street Station redevelopment was held in Philadelphia this month in advance of the next 50-year leg of the historic building’s journey in service to commuters who first began making use of it in 1933. Gilbane will be directing... View full entry
New research from two U.S. universities has drawn a link between socially vulnerable populations and urban heat island effect. The team, drawn from the University of Texas at San Antonio and Pennsylvania State University, used Philadelphia as a case study to summarize how more vulnerable people... View full entry
Harriet Pattison, a noted American landscape architect who worked closely with her romantic partner Louis Kahn, passed away in Philadelphia last week, according to their son, filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn. She was 94. Pattison enjoyed a career that spanned more than thirty years, working... View full entry
Perkins&Will has opened a new studio in Philadelphia as part of a mission to “extend its integrated design services to clients in Philadelphia and the surrounding region, including western and central Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey.” The Philadelphia office, located at... View full entry
Following last week’s visit to California-based Brooks + Scarpa, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series to Philadelphia this week to explore the work of CosciaMoos Architecture. Founded in 2010, the architecture and interior design firm believes that “architecture isn’t just about... View full entry
Whether you're seeking your first job or looking to transfer your skillsets to another firm, Archinect has pulled together a list of opportunities from Archinect Jobs for architects and design professionals in the Philadelphia area. As a leader in all things architectural... View full entry
Steven Holl Architects has unveiled renderings for their design of a new Student Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadephia. The 37,300-square-foot structure will provide dedicated space for the performing arts at Penn and features a 300-seat proscenium... View full entry
A new avian-friendly program aimed at protecting bird local populations during their spring migratory period is taking off in Philadelphia with the hopes of being applied elsewhere in order to combat a mostly invisible problem impacting the ecological systems surrounding major cities across... View full entry
Former Princeton University School of Architecture Dean Robert Geddes has passed away at 99. Born in Philadelphia in 1923, Geddes served in the United States Army Air Force during World War II before finishing his studies at Yale and then earning an M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of... View full entry
The city of Philadelphia is prepared to release a report detailing a months-long community engagement effort officials say will inform the fate of the Roundhouse, the unusual concrete building that served as police headquarters for more than six decades.
Many of the residents who participated in that process said they want to see the shuttered building at 7th and Race streets repurposed as a community hub that recognizes the site’s long history of police abuse.
— WHYY
Philadelphia has a long-frayed relationship between its police department and the community, including most notably the 1985 MOVE Bombing that claimed the lives of 11 activists while displacing another 250 people and destroying 61 homes. The Roundhouse has a central role in this fraught... View full entry
Philadelphia is home to several historic and influential buildings. Home to Robert Venturi's Guild House as well as César Pelli's Circa Centre, the state is also home to several architecture firms leading the way in design. As the leading architecture job board in the... View full entry
Award-winning architectural and urban historian Amber Wiley has been announced by the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design as the inaugural Matt and Erika Nord Director of the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites (CPCRS). The current Rutgers University assistant... View full entry
The extraordinary work of late artist Alexander Calder will soon be displayed in his hometown of Philadelphia thanks to a dedicated new sculpture garden designed by Herzog & de Meuron. The Calder Foundation has shared renderings of the forthcoming Calder Gardens project ahead of its anticipated... View full entry