Archinect - News

UPenn Weitzman School extends dean Fritz Steiner's tenure to 2027

2024-11-11T08:00:00-05:00

The University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design has announced it will be extending the tenure of dean Frederick "Fritz" Steiner for two additional years through June 30th, 2027.

He joined the school early 2016 in part a protest of the controversial "campus carry" weapons policy that was enacted at the University of Texas at Austin. Since that time, Steiner has been credited with improving the school financial position and bolstered DEI efforts for both students and faculty.

Steiner, who also holds a prestigious Paley Professorship and teaches in the departments of city and regional planning and landscape architecture, said: “I couldn’t be prouder of the work that our faculty, students, and alumni are doing to build a better future. When you bring artists, designers, planners, and preservationists together, the possibilities are thrilling.”

Architecture firms in Philadelphia are hiring! Here are 11 featured job opportunities

2024-10-17T12:54:00-04:00

This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights eight employers with exciting job opportunities for architects, project managers, interior designers, and marketing professionals in Philadelphia.

For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series and our Archinect Tips collection.

KieranTimberlake seeks an Architect II
"Experienced Architects seeking to join our team must have a strong background in full-service architectural practice including experience in Construction Contract Administration. Candidates should possess advanced communication skills and strong teamwork abilities. Ideal attributes include the capacity to multitask and work efficiently toward deadlines, as well as the desire to work in a fast-paced, rigorous, and collaborative environment."

Dilworth Park by KieranTimberlake. Photo © James Ewing Photography

MGA Partners seeks a Project Architect
"The Project Architect should have ...

Tyler School of Art and Architecture Fall ’24 events feature Eric Höweler, Masafumi Yukimoto, FIFTEEN, & Petra Kuppers

2024-09-04T08:16:00-04:00

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University has shared its Fall speakers and events information as part of our look at what our Archinect Partner Schools have planned in the first half of the 2024-25 year.

Heather Davis begins the term with the first Critical Dialogue series presentation, a look at her new title Plastic Matter on September 17th. FIFTEEN Architecture + Design’s Katrina Connors and Ximena Valle will follow with a September 18th presentation titled ‘The Time is Now’ before the ‘Spatial Practice Within Contested Geographies’ forum closes the week on September 19th at 6:00 pm.

212 Stuart Street by Höweler + Yoon (Architect of Record: Sasaki Associates); Photo: Chuck Choi.

Eric Höweler of Höweler + Yoon kicks off October’s programming with his presentation on the application of Verify in Field methods to a broader cultural context on October 2nd beginning at 4:00 pm. This precedes the 2024 Robert Z. Shuman Lecture from Class of 1998 BArch graduate Masafum...

One of I.M. Pei’s Beacon Court townhouses list for $1.45 million in Philadelphia

2024-08-19T16:10:00-04:00

A 2,000-square-foot Society Hill townhouse included in I.M. Pei’s 1968 Bingham Court village design is for sale in Philadelphia for $1.45 million. Coldwell Banker has the listing for this one, which can be seen as a “rare” opportunity and should not be confused with Pei’s earlier Society Hill Towers complex not far away. The home boasts a total of three beds and two full bathrooms. Our preview of Pei’s new full-scale retrospective, on view until next January at the M+ museum in Hong Kong, can be read in full here.

Netflix House will remake two American shopping spaces into entertainment venues

2024-07-19T11:24:00-04:00

Details are emerging of Netflix’s plans for a new series of "immersive experiences" that will reimagine several dead retail spaces inside shopping centers in the United States by 2025. Both the Galleria Dallas and the King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania are being targeted for the new Netflix House ventures, according to the streaming giant’s recent press release.

Each will include over 100,000 square feet of space. The Verge says: "Details on what exactly will fill all that space and draw fans to the streaming giant’s first two permanent venues remain thin, but they will include 'regularly updated immersive experiences' and 'unique food and drink offerings' [...]"

Theaster Gates partners with Philadelphia arts initiative on revitalization project

2024-06-04T14:29:00-04:00

Philadelphia’s Forman Arts Initiative (FAI) announced that it has bought and is developing almost a whole block in the city’s West Kensington neighbourhood as a museum and community centre—with help from the artist Theaster Gates and local architects Digsau and Ian Smith Design Group. The campus will open in stages over the next two years, starting later this summer with a public outdoor space.

Gates is also currently, among many other things, involved in a community revitalization effort for the new St. Laurence Arts Incubator in Chicago and National Museums Liverpool's waterfront development in partnership with Asif Khan.

Listen back to our Archinect Sessions podcast conversation with him here.

10 featured architecture and design job opportunities in Philadelphia

2024-05-23T13:07:00-04:00

This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights seven employers with exciting career opportunities for architects, designers, and marketing professionals in Philadelphia.

For helpful guidance on how to get that next job, make sure to check out Archinect's Guide to Job Titles series and our Archinect Tips collection.

KieranTimberlake seeks an Architect II and a Project Administrator

Architect II details: "Experienced Architects seeking to join our team must have a strong background in full-service architectural practice including experience in Construction Contract Administration. Candidates should possess advanced communication skills and strong teamwork abilities. Ideal attributes include the capacity to multitask and work efficiently toward deadlines, as well as the desire to work in a fast-paced, rigorous, and collaborative environment."

Project Administrator details: "The Project Administrator will be part of an administrative group responsible for...

Following a Frank Gehry overhaul, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is hiring an exhibition designer

2024-04-24T17:28:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Deputy Director, Occupancy Management - Real Estate at the MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for an Exhibition Designer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The role calls for an individual who will design special exhibitions, gallery projects, and gallery furnishings for the display of works of art in the museum. Specific tasks may include managing the design and documentation process for exhibitions, creating technical drawings and models of objects and spaces, and developing schedules for construction and object installation. Among the requirements for the role are model-making skills, design training and experience, and preferably a degree in art, architecture, or art history.

The museum's North Entrance, for the first time in decades, was restored to public use in 2019. Steve Hall © Hall + Merrick Photographers, 2019, cour...

Four geometric glazed facades by KieranTimberlake: Your Next Employer?

2024-03-11T13:42:00-04:00

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, and intuition.” As we have previously reported, the firm’s impact on the built environment was honored in 2021 with their receipt of the 35th Louis I. Kahn Award while, in that same year, the team spoke with us in relation to their Tally life cycle assessment software as part of our feature ‘Meet the Architects Designing Software to Fight Climate Change.’

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring for several positions to join their Philadelphia office. For candidates interested in applying for a position, or anybody interested in learning about the firm’s output, we have rounded up four contemporary glazed projects by KieranTimberlake that exemplify the studio’s ethos.

Student Innova...

Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design rebrands as DesignPhiladelphia

2024-01-31T19:51:00-05:00

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 2002. AIA Philadelphia will continue as an anchor tenant, joined by the Community Design Collaborative, PhilaNOMA, Design Advocacy Group, Creative Mornings PHL, and eight new design associations as Residence Partners.

“The new name, DesignPhiladelphia, represents our commitment to inclusivity and collaboration across all design fields, including graphics, interiors, and more. Our programming: Design Education, the Festival, the Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards, and the Louis I. Kahn Lecture will all continue underneath the new DesignPhiladelphia brand,” an FAQ on the Center’s website reads.

Former K-12 Architecture and Design Education programming will now be called simply Design Education progra...

SOM begins $550 million Gray 30th Street Station redevelopment in Philadelphia

2024-01-29T13:57:00-05:00

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 the design-build for the project, which will last at the station through the end of 2027. By that time, its passenger capacity will have doubled to 25 million per year. The project covers approximately 500,000 square feet overall and is part of a larger $10 billion District Plan that will add retail amenities and other improvements to the Market Street Plaza outside.

Image courtesy Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)

According to Amtrak, the scope of the redevelopment includes:

modernizing and expanding station food & beverage and retail offerings
improving station operations and enhancing the customer experience
upgrading The Porch landscaping and commun...

Research finds a link between social vulnerability and urban heat island effect

2023-12-29T11:32:00-05:00

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 live in neighborhoods that are “less green and that get hotter.”

The research was recently published in the Journal of Buildings, and examines the differing characteristics of two Philadelphia neighborhoods to study how the way a neighborhood is built, and the characteristics of the people who live there, are both related to how hot it gets. The team found a “clear link between outdoor temperature and specific urban characteristics” before asking “whether these urban characteristics can be related to the social vulnerability of the residents.”

The social vulnerability of different Philadelphia neighborhoods. Image credit: Research team, licensed under CC BY-ND

The group established a social vu...

Harriet Pattison, landscape architect and longtime Louis Kahn collaborator, dies at 94

2023-10-10T18:47:00-04:00

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 predominantly in Maine and Pennsylvania before she pursued her own path following the death of Kahn in 1974. Pattison studied landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania after working briefly in Dan Kiley’s Vermont-based practice. She would later go on to work alongside Kahn on the Kimbell Art Museum and Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park projects through a position with George Erwin Patton. Pattison was also inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2016.

Pattison was instrumental in creating the landscape architecture at Louis Kahn's design for the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Photo: Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress (Public Domain)

Patti...

Perkins&Will opens Philadelphia studio in Northeastern expansion

2023-09-28T11:41:00-04:00

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 2000 Market Street, is expected to integrate with the firm’s existing Northeast regional teams in New York, Boston, and Washington D.C. According to the firm, the establishment of a Philadelphia studio was motivated in part by the city’s growth in the commercial life sciences sector, particularly cell and gene therapy.

Perkins&Will-designed office tower for the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Image credit: Perkins&Will

“We’re thrilled to officially launch our Philadelphia practice, joining many of the nation’s leading businesses, medical centers, and higher-education institutions,” said Bill Harris, regional managing director at Perkins&Will, in a statement about the new office. “We already ...

Three blends of old and new by CosciaMoos Architecture: Your Next Employer?

2023-09-18T12:17:00-04:00

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 designing buildings; it’s about working together to design creative solutions.” The studio’s resulting portfolio includes commercial, mixed-use, healthcare, and interior projects, shaped along its three values: Be creative and make it cool; challenges are growth opportunities; and relationships are everything.

Over on Archinect Jobs, the firm is currently hiring a Project Manager – Nationwide Healthcare & Retail Projects. For candidates interested in applying for the position, or anybody interested in learning more about the studio’s work, we have rounded up three projects by CosciaMoos Architecture that blend old and new architectural elements.

Hamilton Court Amenities Building. Image credit: Ha...

Looking for a new architecture job in Philadelphia? Check out these 8 opportunities

2023-06-23T09:00:00-04:00

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 employment and professional practice, Archinect continues to provide the community with tips and resources to help guide you during your job hunt. Below are five architecture firms and design studios looking to grow their team.

The Student Innovation Center by Kieran Timberlake serves as a hub and gateway for innovation on ISU’s campus. Image © Peter Aaron/OTTO.

KieranTimberlake seeks a Proposal Specialist

Details: "The Proposal Specialist will be part of a dynamic team and will collaborate to advance the firm’s strategic goals, responsible for the timely and successful creation and coordination of project proposals, qualifications, and client-facing interview materials. Working closely with the firm’s leadership ...

Steven Holl Architects reveals design for UPenn's new Student Performing Arts Center

2023-06-16T16:57:00-04:00

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 theater, 125-seat studio theater, support spaces, and five rehearsal studios. The firm says they will pursue a LEED-silver certification for the project, which is sited on the northeast quadrant of the 1,085-acre campus as a new gateway between the university and city beyond.

“It is a great joy and honor to work on a performing arts center for the students of this historic university on such an important site,” Holl stated.

Image courtesy Steven Holl Architects

The design for the Center itself evokes the iconic nearby Fisher Fine Arts Library, repeating the use of red terracotta in its façade while separating the program into unique suspended trapezoidal masses that are meant to echo the move...

Bird Safe Philly's 'Lights Out' campaign reduces avian collisions with buildings

2023-03-21T19:17:00-04:00

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 the world.

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently published an interesting look at the success of the Lights Out Philly initiative, which encourages building owners, businesses, and individuals to turn off or reduce unnecessary lighting, especially during peak migration periods, minimizing light pollution and allowing migrating birds to navigate more safely. The program has shown a 70% decrease in the number of bird deaths caused by accidental collisions with buildings in the Center City area since being inaugurated in April of 2021.

Lights Out Philly is managed under the larger umbrella of Bird Safe Philly, a consortium of interest groups that includes the National Audubon Society and Drexel Univers...

Robert Geddes, former Princeton Architecture Dean and Philadelphia Roundhouse designer, passes away aged 99

2023-02-14T12:47:00-05:00

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 Design. From there, Geddes went on to practice briefly under Hugh Stubbins in Cambridge, designing what would be the runner-up in the Sydney Opera House competition before returning to Philadelphia to form Geddes Qualls Brecher Cunningham Architects (or GQCA) in 1960.

Their most significant building, the 125,000-square-foot Brutalist Philadelphia Police Headquarters has turned into one of the city’s most fraught and essentially iconic landmarks. After initially being intended as a progressive example of then-Mayor Richardson Dilworth’s “de-politicized” police force, the structure would later take on a more sinister connotation as a symbol of violent authoritarianism and abuse thanks to (un-autho...

Philly's infamous police headquarters faces an uncertain future as a symbol of brutality

2023-02-06T18:51:00-05:00

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.

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 history, and now opinions are split over its proposed future redevelopment.

Robert Geddes, one of the building’s three designers has chimed in to say he feels it should be given a second life as a font for social justice activities and other types of community-based activism. The 125,000-square-foot Brutalist-style structure has also been floated as the potential site of affordable housing, though its layout remains difficult to convert by most estimates.

A final decision on its fate is expected sometime within the calendar year.

Featured architecture job openings in Philadelphia

2022-12-22T06:00:00-05:00

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 industry, Archinect Jobs features over 100+ new job opportunities each week. This week we're featuring eight Philadelphia-based architecture firms looking for the right candidate to join their team.

Bright Common seeks an Architect Level I and Architect Level II

Details: "Bright Common is a studio focused on high concept, low carbon design for a climate-adapted future. Our diverse experience includes work on residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects. As evidence of our unique approach and expanding portfolio, we were awarded the Architectural Record Design Vanguard and Philadelphia Emerging Architect Prize. We are seeking collaborative people who are interested in working on a wide range of tasks to join our...

Historian Amber Wiley to lead UPenn's Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites

2022-09-19T09:00:00-04:00

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 professor will also hold the title of Presidential Associate Professor and lecture primarily in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation. Wiley holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from George Washington University in addition to degrees in Architecture and Architectural History from Yale and the University of Virginia.

From Wiley's 2021 CPCRS talk titled “The Revolution Continues.” Image courtesy UPenn.

She comes to the new positions highly recommended as the author of the forthcoming title Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital and curator of Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum, now on view at Rutgers’ New Bru...

Herzog & de Meuron reveals plans for a dedicated Alexander Calder sculpture garden in Philadelphia

2022-09-07T17:25:00-04:00

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 fall groundbreaking on a 1.8-acre site located adjacent to other prominent arts institutions along the city’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

The images appear to show a sunken structure with subterranean galleries that emerge into a dynamic 18,000-square-foot main building surrounded by gardens manicured by famed landscape designer Piet Oudolf. HdM says that the project "blurs the boundaries between architecture and the natural world" and is thus intended to "unfold as a choreographed progression that moves visitors from the quotidian city context to a more contemplative realm beyond the traditional museum experience" in order to "catalyze discovery and reflection."

Imag...

Denise Scott Brown remembers John Rauch, long-time partner and influential driver of postmodernism, who passed away aged 91

2022-08-25T12:18:00-04:00

An influential figure in the development of American postmodernism has been lost after news that former Venturi, Scott Brown partner John Rauch passed away in Philadelphia last week.

Rauch was born and raised in the city and educated at Wesleyan University and UPenn before entering the profession following his service in the U.S. Army. He was an early champion of the work of his partner Robert Venturi and would, through their combined efforts under the then-moniker Venturi and Rauch, contribute to formative projects including the influential Vanna Venturi house and Fire Station #4 that defined the scope and trajectory of architecture for another thirty years.

Fire Station #4 in Columbus, Indiana. Image courtesy Library of Congress

The practice continued to evolve after the addition of Denise Scott Brown in 1969 and publication of Learning from Las Vegas in 1972. Rauch would again be instrumental in the selection of major higher-ed commissions for Yale, Princeton, and Ohio State Unive...

19 architecture jobs in Philadelphia

2022-08-18T13:52:00-04:00

Searching for a new architecture job in Philly? Continuing with our regional-specific curated job roundups, we're focusing on nine Philadelphia-based architecture firms looking to hire mid-level and senior project managers, project architects, and designers.

As the architecture industry's leading job board, Archinect Jobs showcases employment opportunities for design professionals at any stage in their careers. Search from hundreds of job listings weekly to find the best position for you.

Tree Adventure by Metcalfe Architecture and Design. Image courtesy of Metcalfe Architecture and Design.

Metcalfe Architecture & Design seeks a Project Manager

Details: "We are seeking an architect with strong skills in programming, budget management, design, CAD/Revit, construction administration, writing, people client relations, and organization…yes, all that! LEED AP and digital modelling would be great. A background in art or construction would be useful." Learn more here.

Metcalfe Architectur...

10 featured architecture jobs in Philadelphia

2022-06-15T05:25:00-04:00

Searching for architectural career opportunities in Philadelphia? For this week's curated job picks we highlight eight architecture firms that are searching for the right candidate to join their team. From project architects to a junior designer explore ten employment opportunities currently listed on Archinect's Job Board.

Be sure to explore our recently highlighted job picks for designers and architects searching for employment in the Houston, San Francisco, and Seattle region.

EwingCole seeks a Healthcare Planner

Details: "Our multi-disciplinary practice is built on the core values of professional excellence, design quality and collaboration. The Healthcare Practice in our Philadelphia office is looking for a Healthcare Planner with at least 5 years experience to join our team. As part of the Architecture Discipline, the Healthcare Planner will develop their diversity of architectural expertise including planning, design, construction technology, docu...

Perkins Eastman acquires BLT Architects, its second merger in as many years

2022-02-11T16:54:00-05:00

One of the largest architecture firms in North America is expanding again as Perkins Eastman has announced a merger with BLT Architects (BLTa) effective February 1st.

The new entity will be known as BLTa—A Perkins Eastman Studio and operate out of Philadelphia, a traditional stronghold of Perkins.

“We are very pleased that BLTa has joined us, and we now have a strong partner in Philadelphia. We have had the opportunity to get to know BLTa over the last several years and believe they bring significant skills and experience to our national practice,” Perkins Eastman chairman and co-founded Brad Perkins said in a statement. “Moreover, we have always had important clients in Philadelphia, eastern Pennsylvania, and the adjacent states, and with BLTa we can now better serve those that want a combination of our national expertise combined with experienced local delivery and service.”

The in-state move is the latest in a list of successive acquisitions the firm has made dating back to the ...

The Weitzman School of Design's latest exhibition offers a look at the impact its alumni had in making China modern

2022-01-18T13:03:00-05:00

What can a western architectural education do in a developing country? The legacy of one of the leading design colleges in America is being examined as such in a new exhibition called Building in China: A Century of Dialogues on Modern Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia.

The exhibition is presented in unison with Southeast University School of Architecture and the Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning and features a two-part format that looks first at the historical impacts the university has had on the development of architecture in the country after 1920.

Peace Hotel of Beijing, designed by Tingbao Yang. Image courtesy University of Pennsylvania.

Penn educated a number of prominent Chinese architects during those years, and many went on to successful architectural careers that were heavily influenced by the proximity to the international movement of modernism which began at the university. The fi...

A ‘hospital of the future’: Foster + Partners opens new medical school building at UPenn

2021-11-19T09:00:00-05:00

With the spiritual and material well-being of its next-generation patients in mind, the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine has opened an inpatient facility from Foster + Partners and others that is being heralded as a “hospital of the future.”

Located on Penn’s historic West Philadelphia campus, The Pavillion is the university’s answer to the growing body of scholarship that supports a patient-oriented approach to care that is embodied in its design and functionality.

“The new Pavilion is designed to completely redefine the future of healthcare,” Norman Foster said. “The building enables innovations that reflect University of Pennsylvania’s history of medical firsts, creating a truly flexible facility that molds itself to the needs of the patient. Responsive, adaptable and future-proof, it will allow the hospital to continue its crucial life-saving work and remain at the cutting edge of patient care.”

The University indeed h...

Center for Architecture and Design to honor KieranTimberlake with its 35th Louis I. Kahn Award

2021-10-07T13:52:00-04:00

Philadelphia’s Center for Architecture and Design will honor Stephen Kieran and James Timberlake with the 2021 Louis I. Khan Award.

The duo and founders of eponymous KieranTimberlake will join David Adjaye and Jeanne Gang as recent winners of the annual award now in its 35th year.

The award is meant to recognize the influence of its namesake, a Philadelphia native and icon of modernism, that Timberlake referred to as an “architect’s architect.”

“We are humbled and grateful for this award,” the architect said in a statement. “As for Steve and me, and the firm at-large, it is recognition of the diligence, effort, and hard work that we give to each and every commission and an acknowledgment to our clients that they made the right choice.”

Related on Archinect: How To Get A Job At: KieranTimberlake

KieranTimberlake’s practice was first established in the city in 1984 and has since gone on to establish itself as an international leader in the industry, with multiple AIA awards and a 2010...