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So are the page 1 renderings the real deal, or are we still waiting to see? |
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This is a slow motion demolition.
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It's more like deconstruction .
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You may have seen this before, but here's a DP article about the extensive precautions being taken during the current demolition and future construction next door: Sensors help protect Penn Museum artifacts during Penn Tower demolition |
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^more modern and sterile. The original rendering on page 1 was organic. Cost savings? Less large glass panels, especially at the lobby...
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If it is a change, I liked the original design much better.
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particularly with the beige color it looks like serious shit.
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I agree. It stinks. It retains the shape of the original rendering, but that's it. I wouldn't want my name on it at this point, if I were m'Lord the Architect.
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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
If you would like to voice your opinion do so in a civil way. |
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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UVA - did not make the list Duke - did not make the list UChicago - did not make the list Yale - did not make the list UMichigan - #17 Berkley - did not make the list Princeton - did not make the list Boston College - did not make the list Columbia - #24 Harvard - did not make the list William & Mary - did not make the list Stanford - #4 WashU - did not make the list University of Washington - did not make the list (though a personal fav of mine) UCLA - did not make the list Notre Dame - did not make the list MIT - did not make the list Rice - did not make the list |
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Hey, throw some roof top villages on that thing and we have a modern marvel. |
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So, let me get this right, you're whinging that Penn's campus is ugly because its Brutalist-era buildings are ugly? Do. You. Have. Any. Fucking. Idea. How. Fucking. Entitled. That. Sounds?!? Most of us are Drexel and Temple grads, and if you've ever bothered to step one fucking foot off your fucking campus bubble you would have fucking noticed that these fucking schools are fucking entirely monuments to fucking Brutalism! |
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