PHILADELPHIA | Penn Medicine New Patient Pavilion | 343 FT | 17 FLOORS
Title: Penn Medicine New Patient Pavilion
Project: Hospital/Medical Architect: Norman Foster Developer: Penn Medicine Location: 300 South 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA Neighborhood: University City District: West Philadelphia Floors: 17 floors Height: 343 feet https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8658/2...eac93fda_b.jpg https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7610/2...d3f130ec_b.jpg https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8076/2...418dc28a_b.jpg Renderings provided by Flyers2001: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=7808 Quote:
http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...ment-team.html The new development will replace the 20 floor, 254 foot outdated Penn Tower pictured here: http://www.emporis.com/images/show/163404-Large.jpg http://www.emporis.com/buildings/118...delphia-pa-usa |
It will be pretty impressive to have a room in the back of the hospital as it will have some of the best views of CC when all is said and done.
As with all Penn projects Driscoll will be taking the lead. **many Driscoll front office were moved from Penn Tower LL to trailers on top of 3600 garage. The lone trailer on the space next to 3600 has been removed and bulldozers and other heavy equipment has returned. I'll keep an eye and ear out on wether they are resuming construction on 3600 the building. |
The annual spring meeting of the Penn Trustees was held last Thursday and Friday. I wonder if this was discussed, including these preliminary plans and drawings. Haven't seen anything yet, but I'll keep an eye out and report back here if I do. They're the ones who ultimately have to approve this.
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Just a suggestion, summers, but it might be better to title this thread "Penn Medicine Towers," and not just "Penn Towers," to distinguish it from general Penn campus construction.
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https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secreta...usteemtgs.html So it's possible that there was a discussion of the architectural plans at the Facilities & Campus Planning Committee meeting on Thursday, or even at the full Board of Trustees meeting on Friday: https://secure.www.upenn.edu/secreta...sopenmtgs.html I usually read the minutes of the Penn Trustees meetings when they're published, but that won't happen for this spring meeting until the minutes are approved at next fall's meeting of the full board. The trustees meetings are also covered in the internal Penn publication, "Almanac" (http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/), but that's currently on a summer publication schedule, so its coverage of this meeting may be a bit delayed. The Daily Pennsylvanian, which also generally covers trustees meetings, is currently on its summer weekly schedule, so there may be a story on the spring trustees meeting tomorrow. As I said, I'll keep an eye out. |
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I am sure they discussed a variety of items. Doesn't really matter as the timetable is 2021 for completion, which came from the sustainability meeting. |
My power has been out since Tuesday since my section of Delco was among the hardest hit during Tuesday's storm (tornado for my area). Service returned today, and I come on Skyscraperpage to find THIS?! A NORMAN FOSTER designed building? I don't know what makes me happier, the power being back on or discovering this!
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If you're interested (and I'd certainly understand if you aren't ;)), here's an example of what I'm talking about, including capital project expenditure approvals beginning on page 7: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdo...20150227tr.pdf And here are the actual resolutions from that meeting, which provide a lot more detail about what they approved: http://www.archives.upenn.edu/primdo...0150227res.pdf Reading this kind of stuff is one of my pastimes. :P |
I have to start going on vacation more often, everytime I leave something awesome happens haha. Nice design!
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From what I heared, there will be 3 phases. 1/2 seems like it will be built together opening the hospital. Phase 3 will either be built right after opening or a delay. Not sure yet.
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...1a&oe=562026F0 https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net...22&oe=56198157 |
Inside sketch
Looks like the museum building through the windows. Found this on the HDR site.
http://www.hdrinc.com/sites/all/file...t-pavilion.jpg Cheers, G. |
It's also worth noting that none of these drawings show a bridge from the old/current H.U.P. buildings to the new 700-bed tower nor to the existing Perelman buildings. The only bridge seems to be from the new 700-bed tower to the existing Perelman buildings. That may or may not confirm that the existing H.U.P. buildings will be re-purposed by the University itself and no longer health system buildings, which was the plan a few years back.
Cheers, G. |
Site status as of Friday....
https://farm1.staticflickr.com/404/1...875eca16_c.jpg110 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr You can see the Penn Tower, Perelman and Smilow buildings, as well as the existing HUP which will relocate to the planned building. One issue has to be resolved before anything can be done: to get from Perelman to HUP via skywalk, patients, visitors, and staff have to go via Penn Tower's second floor. Therefore a new bridge has to be erected to circumvent it.... https://farm1.staticflickr.com/297/1...12759342_c.jpg112 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr This structure will join in with the existing skywalk leading from Penn Tower enabling the tower to be cut off in preparation for demolition.... https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3793/...cfdc57fe_c.jpg111 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr There were two renderings of this temporary skywalk posted next to each other. Now this I found funny, if you look past the glare you can make out the existing Penn Tower silhouette and the skywalk leading to it still intact.... https://farm1.staticflickr.com/359/1...4c6d067c_c.jpg114 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr Turn the corner and there is another render that looks almost identical except the Tower is gone and they have a stubby looking crane in it's place:haha: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/288/1...bb71fb4a_c.jpg115 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr Penn Tower with the bridge to Perelman https://farm1.staticflickr.com/256/1...44809297_c.jpg116 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr It should also be mentioned that Penn Tower wasn't exactly built to a high standard to begin with and the garage has required numerous repair jobs in recent years. You can see the extreme spalling and the steel braces that were added to keep the concrete panels in place. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/429/1...5280bb9a_c.jpg119 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr |
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One value-add here: they are going to start dismantling the tower crane next week. |
That design is not released media-wise and has not been finalized among the VPs. Given it looks much farther along than the blocky massing model photos I took and posted months back. So it may change a little or it may change quite a bit. Being done in stages (with a $1.5 bln budget) is certainly a safe bet since it has been Penn Med's M.O. for awhile now with that complex and the VP of real estate said that it would be done in stages more than a year ago.
The parts I'm most curious about are if the 700 bed goal is just a phase since that's less than the current census of HUP, and if any current HUP buildings will remain part of Penn Med. Cheers, G. |
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I agree.
This latest rendering is pure meh. $600MM and this is the best they can do? It looks like 80s crap you'd see on 202 or in central Florida. Completely uninspired. |
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When does demolition begin?
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Since they actually moved that huge table, I'm starting to believe it's actually coming down quite soon! Cheers, G. |
The Perelman Center is a horrific Frankenstein of a building (probably THE ugliest in the city) that sets the bar so low for Penn, than anything that exceeds it will be considered a success. Maybe it was intentional.
p.s., Lord Foster means nothing to me. Wasn't Perelman designed by a starchitect, too? |
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In fact, I sometimes wonder if any architect has been involved. :rolleyes: |
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Originally Posted by Philly Fan Just a suggestion, summers, but it might be better to title this thread "Penn Medicine Towers," and not just "Penn Towers," to distinguish it from general Penn campus construction. 'New Patient Pavilion' is the nomenclature used by both Lord Norman Foster during his Louis Kahn award talk and on the PennConnects interactive map. Although I would think the word new would be dropped at some point, leaving it perhaps Penn Patient Pavilion? |
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Penn sure has a knack for picking and building BAD buildings.
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The Penn Tower garage is blocked off and getting prepped for demo finally.
Cheers, G. |
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New Patient Pavilion |
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When they get to the main tower they will be demo the middle first and use it as a cone to keep dust to a min. |
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Damn...not wasting any time!
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They have been doing work around the clock. Expect garage demo to continue quickly.
Penn Tower is going to be used as a staging ground and lodging for employees during Pope weekend. |
Looks like they took a rest....the machines weren't moving when I was there, but it does look like they took a few more chunks out....
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5818/...95e53953_b.jpg022 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/721/2...ede94d04_b.jpg023 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5831/...1c0c539f_b.jpg026 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5691/...95824d32_b.jpg027 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5745/...69675ab2_b.jpg028 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5700/...af8c7cc0_b.jpg030 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5823/...f3c2f1bd_b.jpg043 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr |
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https://farm1.staticflickr.com/610/2...983fe274_c.jpg019 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/572/2...13864114_c.jpg022 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr I'm guessing they are just going to take those two bays down and leave the rest for now.... https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5633/...dc66af7d_c.jpg025 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr New walkway wrapping up (pretty much finished inside) https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5697/...7abdd220_c.jpg027 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr |
Bridge is finished and it looks great from the inside. Much wider than the former. Penn Tower the building is slated to start preparing to come down October 5th-7th. It depends how fast they can remove the remaining items after this weekend.
The scaffolding for the new Bridge will start to come down this week as they finish the drainage pipes under the bridge. I will be cuious to see what happens with studies on Perelman in regards to possible sinkhole/Foundation issues that have been progressing over the last 6-12 months. |
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Picture from 10/7. They're doing most demo and site prep in the evening/night. Anyone have more info about the building plans? They chose Foster + Partners and the construction firms way back in January. I'd figure they'd have at least some prelim plans and renderings to show publicly by now.
http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5647/21...66ba8ef8_b.jpg And, as a reminder, aerial of the site before demo began: http://c1.staticflickr.com/1/636/213...afa8c142_z.jpg |
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Architects and contractors from Driscoll have been out there surveying. |
The Original Philly Special. Glad to see this turd go, hopefully it shifts the architectural zeitgeist away from bland-box design into more creative and thoughtful arenas.
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Garage down completely:
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5713/...acae12fd_c.jpg041 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/673/2...184ed970_c.jpg044 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr Ceiling tiles have been removed from inside the bridge at left: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/593/2...4433ee15_c.jpg045 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm1.staticflickr.com/648/2...9a36703c_c.jpg046 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5662/...e7da94e2_c.jpg047 by tehshadowbat, on Flickr |
Such a beautiful thing to see garages being demo'd. I think a city's time has come when you see lots of garages coming down. Finally, after 60+ years, decision makers are seeing that downtown land is the best place to leverage human capital to create the greatest value.
Someday - soon, hopefully - people will look back in disbelief at the ridiculousness of the last many decades when a primary function of CBD land was to serve the dehumanized industrial need of storing tens of thousands of vehicles in lifeless structures essentially devoid of human activity and interaction. |
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