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Wow, is this Norman Foster's design still?
All other developers have to go through some sort of a design review process whether it's with neighborhood groups or local residents or the CDR - why is Penn immune from that process? These are massive projects with massive budgets that really should be pushed and critically rethought a bit. I mean, whoever the architect of this thing is should really sit in front of a room and answer some questions about the design. |
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The person in charge of this design downgrade is Kevin Mahoney, EVP & Chief Administrative Officer, Mahoneyk@uphs.upenn.edu
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Its almost like Penn likes/envies the beautiful new curvy CHOP building down the street and is making their own curvy building to copy it except that the Penn version looks horrible and is not well done.
Isn't the last Frankenstein building they built abomination enough. |
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^^ You said it. They probably could've saved a lot of money by retrofitting it.
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This is the most disappointing project of significance in recent modern history in this city.
There are no words. It's as if Penn is trying to create a campus the likes of which Drexel has been demolishing for the past 30 years. Do these administrators ever learn? |
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That said, this particular building is dissapointing. And the lack of recent cohesive vision has certainly been to the detriment of the campus. ... still a long way from a community college campus though. |
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Drexel -- which was the country's ugliest campus -- is trying to brand itself with architectural cohesion, while Temple has drawn up and is starting to put into practice a cohesive landscape design. It's like the other schools are waking up to how well the Penn campus works as a branding mechanism ... while Penn itself is just snoozing at the wheel. I wonder if some of this is due to its current administration. Buildings from the Fry era are much more cohesive, especially with his vision of how the campus and city ought to interact. I might be the only one who feels this way, but I think Penn needs some new blood on its BOR. |
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Due to my job I've actually been to college campuses all across America and Penn is truly one of my favorites. I'm blown away that you think it's so terrible. You're free to your opinion but you're certainly in the minority as Penn's campus often shows up on lists of America's most beautiful campuses. Not that an Internet listicle is any type of authority, but it simply goes to show many think the campus looks nice. I agree with hammersklavier though that they're mostly coasting on the work of previous generations. Even architecturally ambitious recent buildings like the nanotechnology building don't do an excellent job contributing to cohesive campus feel. |
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Ugh... Im embarrassed that a Mahoney is involved in this... changing my name, this is horrifically bland and uninspiring. You cant just round off a few edges and call it a day. Yes it's a hospital and what goes on inside is what matters but damn... Just seems lazy to me.
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