I heard it's priority number one.

^I'm too busy trying to secure toilet paper to bother changing my front port lightbulb.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/B-QFBleD0Dx/

Are they supposed to be able to change color or something?

....and then it turned out beautiful.

https://scontent-den4-1.cdninstagram...ca&oe=5EBA3B44
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-147ThjBLv/

Anyone know if this is still partially opening this month?

^ Good question, because PA currently appears to have enough regular and ICU beds.

Partly operational:

From Billy Penn:
https://billypenn.com/2020/04/28/pen...cept-patients/

This will take non-COVId patients, if room is needed in the main hospital. Which at the moment it isn't.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CBnC_66jPYZ/

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CCmcdB9nlhT/

Logo going up

This one is definitely coming to the end:

https://phillyyimby.com/wp-content/u...2-1024x683.jpg

https://phillyyimby.com/2020/10/chop...ladelphia.html

There's still a huge amount of auxiliary and grouns work to be done. I believe they're framing out a bit more of the building with steel that will have a terrace on top iirc. Two skybridges are being installed now, but I believe there's supposed to be a whole skywalk to the train station as well. The bulk of the skyline visible work is coming to an end though

Yeah I spent a few days walking through this building in September and it has a LOOONNNGG way to go in terms of much of the interior construction work. Late 2021 it’ll be open. Building is pretty cool though, will be the most sophisticated hospital space in the world when it opens.

Exterior Work Wraps On Pavilion At 300 South 33rd Street In University City, West Philadelphia

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Read/view more here:
https://phillyyimby.com/2020/10/exte...ladelphia.html

[QUOTE=Londonee;9087490]Yeah I spent a few days walking through this building in September and it has a LOOONNNGG way to go in terms of much of the interior construction work. Late 2021 it’ll be open. Building is pretty cool though, will be the most sophisticated hospital space in the world when it opens.[/QUOTE

Do you know anything about the areas that were 'finished' to treat covid patients, did that ever open? Other then alot of the patient rooms being flexible, what does sophisticated mean when it comes to a hospital?

Remember back when Penn announced this site as the location for a new stand alone building, we all talked about it maybe being the worlds tallest hospital. Oh well, it's turning out Ok, certainly better then its weird older brother across the street (and over a couple of bridges). I'm still not sold on the change of window height on the nose and tail, the rounded ends; it just doesn't look very refined. Maybe someday Lord Foster will give Philly one of his first rate designs, something cutting edge.

What plans does Penn have to their older hospital buildings along Spruce St?

Only until Jefferson buildings their exorbitantly expensive building at 11th/Chestnut.

That will be an out-patient facility, not an in-patient hospital like Penn's New Patient Pavilion.

And apparently, one of the most advanced outpatient facilities in the world.

Coming to an end:

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Read/view more here:
https://phillyyimby.com/2020/12/inte...ladelphia.html

Seems a bit premature of a post since I think it's slated to open in the summer, but interior work is definitely in progress. Recently there has been a lot of progress on the skybridges, and it looks like they're going to do some reimagining of the facade on the old hospital where the bridge is connecting over the old ED because there is a steel skeleton attached around the connection. Once the ED moves, I imagine they'll bring the wall down to the ground to create more rooms where ambulances currently park

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https://phillyyimby.com/2021/01/yimb...nter-city.html

So there's some oddities going on in the back (river side), and I'm wondering if anyone knows what's going on. It looks like there's an extra floor that wasn't in renderings before. It's being clad with (for now?) non-matching black, and meets the main building mass awkwardly. Some other flat/lighter color (and cheaper looking) metal cladding is showing up around it too that looks more like the accent color around the vertical window strip. It looks kind of cheap and out of place, like they ran out of their primary cladding material
https://i.ibb.co/dpMpj9v/IMG-20210306-151859-50-01.jpg

All sorts of weirdness here where it meets up with the rest of the building. The windowless metal cladding was originally supposed to curve in here.
https://i.ibb.co/3C3Ky19/IMG-20210306-151631-50.jpg

Compared with the virtual tour (it's hard to find other renders of this angle):
https://i.ibb.co/k44qRPQ/Screenshot-...-203007-01.jpg

Anyone have any info on a design change?

Wow thats a whole extra floor, interesting. That was probably a approved design change right?

They didn't mess up and add an extra floor did that :D:haha:

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Well I got the cladding answer already lol. It looks like the windows are getting kind of screened over. There's even a smaller second floor on top of that! I wonder if either are possibly mechanical or something.

Anyone have any updates on this one? This has got to be complete by now - no?

No, still a lot of miscellaneous exterior work left between missing cladding and not even starting the ED ambulance bay, and lots of interior construction lights. Probably a couple months left at least.

Exterior Nearly Complete At Pavilion At 300 South 33rd Street In University City

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Read/view more here:
https://phillyyimby.com/2021/05/faca...ladelphia.html

Construction of Penn Medicine's $1.5B Pavilion nearing completion

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...-pavilion.html

No that's an additional floor added later to the building.

Construction is expected to finish in September and it will be patient ready on Oct. 30th

On the left:

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https://phillyyimby.com/2021/07/yimb...nter-city.html

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Read/view more here:
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Is this complete yet?

IIRC they’re still doing some work at ground level. The tower portion was expedited because of COVID. It was used as extra bedding in the beginning when hospitalizations surged.

No, there was an insider email that construction will wrap up at the end of next month and then be patient ready on October 30th

Is it ready for renovation yet? Hospitals seem to always be changing something around.
In the photo this actually smallish next to the Frankenbuilding.

Yeah they're doing some hardscaping. You can see it easily out of the Ravdin building but it didn't feel appropriate to take photos from occupied patient rooms :haha:

I just hope that the hardscaping pushes up Penn's ranking in the US News Best Hospitals Honor Roll. :P

America's Best Hospitals: the 2021-22 Honor Roll and Overview

Ooo. They gotta be pissed about that rank.

I think it's actually an improvement by two spots from last year, so they're probably not that mad. ;)

https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/h...als-honor-roll

On the right:

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https://phillyyimby.com/2021/08/comp...ladelphia.html

Wrong thread.

Wrong thread, Summers.

Ha! Thanks for catching that.

Not the best pic but my friend was driving on 76 and saw that they have some colored perimeter light details on the upper portion of the building:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/193729...posted-public/

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I didn't know it was going to have decorative lighting like this!

^^^^ Nice!