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http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelp...ment-team.html The new development will replace the 20 floor, 254 foot outdated Penn Tower pictured here: http://www.emporis.com/images/show/163404-Large.jpg http://www.emporis.com/buildings/118...delphia-pa-usa |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.
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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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