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You can't compare it to the collection of historic and newer buildings in the main complex. That's a completely different animal--it's mess that has resulted from decades of incremental expansion.
Pretty sure that PCAM was designed to be expanded quickly and fairly orderly, but they probably wanted to hedge their bet, should things like the economy go south. It was never supposed to be a one-off $1+ billion masterpiece. The first project was the base, on which future towers (e.g., Smillow and the South Pavilion) were to be built. There's not a lot of room around health complex for horizontal expansion, so instead they went with vertical expansion. Of course, this isn't to say that the resulting Frankenstein's monster of buildings and pavilions is the best that they could have done or should win any great design awards, but there's more going on there than meets the eye. |
Perelman was originally designed to be built in four phases. The initial horseshoe center and then 3 towers afterwards. They have actually followed that at least in concept. I agree the execution is industrial looking and that's emphasized by the much stronger designs CHOP puts directly next to it.
Part of the difference is that CHOP bleeds money. "It's for the kids after all." They spent millions putting a glass facade on the main building which added (apparently) no square footage. Take Penn Medicine, when it makes money (and it makes more than CHOP typically - $3xx million vs. $2xx million last year I think I read), the Penn mothership can take that profit or a big chunk of it. I have no idea what their cut is, but it does inhibit free spending from what I have heard. No idea if that explains the industrial look, but I'll find out from being part of the project. Should be interesting LOL. Cheers, G. |
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The building itself may be called Perelman aka PCAM but its not all Penn Medicine. Smilow is part of Penn the university as well as JMEC. Its all confusing. |
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The elevators, however, are indeed so bad, you could proclaim as much from the top of the Art Museum steps, interrupting a choreographed chorus line of dancers performing the finale to the Thanksgiving Day Parade so that your message would be heard loud and clear over a live television broadcast, and it would not be considered overkill. Update: might I add that the building was indeed poorly designed. It was not designed for the user. And I'm not just talking about patients, I include personnel as users in this example too. Although, they benefit from becoming conditioned to it. The building wasn't even designed around the disciplines/departments that inhabit it. Some operations are split, under-suited, over-suited, or just plain lacking of any reference to the hospital as a whole. I believe the building was designed based on aesthetics (which are not that great, just a modern cube within a cube) and the idea that Penn got in their heads that big building projects should be evolutionary, or built in bits as needed. This is probably so their capital budget looks more even when spread out over the years? How quickly they needed to begin the addition on Perelman should have told them this wasn't necessarily a good idea and they should just build the Patient Pavilion in one go. |
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To try an explain what the building is like without actually being inside in various departments is difficult. The work they do inside is great. Some of the best Doctors and staff in the world, but they are stuck working in a flawed building. Although, the Smilow floors are designed much better as is JMEC. |
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Penn Tower demo update:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1611/...f74ba15d_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1471/...4a5169c1_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1514/...22e1c658_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1451/...32dcf769_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1699/...98860b04_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1534/...a8dcedd7_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1499/...c229d698_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1604/...75e07f23_c.jpgPenn Tower 2/5/16 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr |
^bye felicia
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Current Penn Tower demolition continues https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...fb&oe=576AD3F0 https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...37&oe=575FA56F |
Right above where it says "Tower" up top had some of the greatest views of the city. Did a nice little stint working for Penn Medicine, met some good people. :cheers:
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