PHILADELPHIA | Penn Medicine New Patient Pavilion | 343 FT | 17 FLOORS - Page 36

Philly Fan · #**701** Posted **Aug 22, 2021, 3:56 PM**

PennMed’s new Pavilion facility seeks to define the future of hospital care

Philly Fan · #**702** Posted **Sep 9, 2021, 3:13 PM**

Penn Medicine Pavilion to hire more than 600 staff members ahead of November opening

summersm343 · #**703** Posted **Sep 10, 2021, 6:09 PM**

https://phillyyimby.com/2021/09/a-lo...ladelphia.html

Philly Fan · #**704** Posted **Sep 25, 2021, 5:08 AM**

Bower Cafe and Root & Sprig to open at Penn Medicine’s new Pavilion

PurpleWhiteOut · #**705** Posted **Oct 5, 2021, 9:13 PM**

Logo is going up. I've also seen a few more LED tests in a few different colors, but don't have pictures of that.

summersm343 · #**706** Posted **Oct 6, 2021, 8:01 PM**

First look: Inside Penn Medicine's $1.6 billion Pavilion (PHOTOS)

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Penn Medicine is set to begin providing patient care on Oct. 30 at its $1.6 billion Pavilion, a 17-story building it is describing as the "future of medicine."

The 1.5-million-square-foot building in West Philadelphia — across the street from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and adjacent to the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine — includes 504 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms.

The Pavilion, the largest capital project in Penn's history, will be home to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's oncology, cardiovascular care and neuroscience departments.

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Redddog · #**707** Posted **Oct 7, 2021, 2:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

First look: Inside Penn Medicine's $1.6 billion Pavilion (PHOTOS)

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That place is unbelieveable.

arkitect13 · #**708** Posted **Oct 7, 2021, 6:26 PM**

The Pavillion looks ridiculously advanced. It feels so open yet so closed off for privacy. The views are amazing, and the interior is insanely modern!

summersm343 · #**709** Posted **Oct 12, 2021, 12:12 AM**

Work Progresses On Pedestrian Bridge At The Penn Medicine Pavilion

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https://phillyyimby.com/2021/10/work...-medicine.html

Broadcastthatboom · #**710** Posted **Oct 27, 2021, 7:35 PM**

I really hope they did some traffic flow pattern re-designs or something with this one. Where Health Sciences Dr. turns into Convention Ave is already kind of a clusterf**k with all the one-way only traffic merging onto Convention Ave, and then traffic gets clogged with people waiting to turn left into the Perelman Center on Civic Center Blvd, and now the entire Emergency Department and main hospital drop-off is also going to be on Convention Ave.

badthingshappen · #**711** Posted **Oct 28, 2021, 3:47 AM**

It looks to me like some sort of...steampunk cruise liner.

aprice1828 · #**712** Posted **Oct 28, 2021, 1:53 PM**

My friends that work at HUP think it's pretty ugly. My view on it: it's a good building form and a good exterior material. Terrible combination of the two.

SEFTA · #**713** Posted **Oct 29, 2021, 3:17 AM**

Building looks great
the base not so much

Philly Fan · #**714** Posted **Oct 29, 2021, 2:34 PM**

Penn Med’s $1.6 billion Pavilion to open this week with technologically advanced patient rooms

das18 · #**715** Posted **Oct 29, 2021, 2:42 PM**

This building could be a case study in the use of quality materials. Moral of the story is that if you use quality materials you make it really hard for the building to come out poorly, even if your design is lacking.

summersm343 · #**716** Posted **Oct 29, 2021, 6:38 PM**

Penn Medicine's Pavilion incorporates sustainable measures, borrows design elements from nearby buildings

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Penn Medicine’s newly developed $1.6 billion Pavilion has become the first hospital in the country larger than 1 million square feet to achieve LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

Foster & Partners, the architect, designed the 17-story, 1.5-million-square-foot building with an eye toward meeting LEED gold standards and obtaining the designation.

The facility is scheduled to open Oct. 30 and sits among Penn Medicine’s other research facilities including the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, which at $302 million had been the largest capital project undertaken in the history of Penn Medicine until the Pavilion supplanted it. The Pavilion also becomes an additional anchor of University City's research and medical institutions, which are world-renowned and further Philadelphia's place as a hub of innovation.

Norman Foster, the Pavilion's architect, drew from nearby edifices for inspiration including the adjacent Penn Museum, Franklin Field and CHOP’s Buerger Center for Advanced Pediatric Care. The Pavilion’s round shape complements the museum and other nearby buildings such as Buerger.

The Pavilion’s muted brown shades are also borrowed from the museum and Franklin Field, and rippled metal bands used on the exterior are a nod to railroad cars once manufactured at the former Budd Co. plant.

A dramatic feature in the interior of the building is a sculpture by Maya Lin, the artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Penn Medicine commissioned Lin to design a piece for the lobby of the hospital.

Article behind paywall in link below. Images can be seen un article:
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...on-design.html

summersm343 · #**717** Posted **Oct 29, 2021, 6:39 PM**

At this point, I would say this is pretty much COMPLETE and we'll move this one to the Completed Projects Archive shortly.

I think it's a great building and a wonderful addition to Philadelphia

SEFTA · #**718** Posted **Oct 30, 2021, 1:58 PM**

ABSOLUTLY!

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Originally Posted by das18

This building could be a case study in the use of quality materials. Moral of the story is that if you use quality materials you make it really hard for the building to come out poorly, even if your design is lacking.

and ooh la la!

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Penn Med’s $1.6 billion Pavilion to open this week with technologically advanced patient rooms

summersm343 · #**719** Posted **Oct 30, 2021, 4:26 PM**

Penn’s $1.6 billion Pavilion tower, its biggest yet, opens with massive patient transfer

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https://www.inquirer.com/news/penn-m...-20211030.html

thoughtcriminal · #**720** Posted **Oct 31, 2021, 5:14 PM**

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Originally Posted by summersm343

Penn Medicine's Pavilion incorporates sustainable measures, borrows design elements from nearby buildings

Article behind paywall in link below. Images can be seen un article:
https://www.bizjournals.com/philadel...on-design.html

..."and rippled metal bands used on the exterior are a nod to railroad cars once manufactured at the former Budd Co. plant."
wut?
this is the kind of thing that drives me crazy, this postmodern desire to extend a "nod" to some other thing, especially some esoteric thing that no one, that NO ONE, would ever understand just by looking at the building. no one would ever look at that building and say "oh yes, that reminds me of the railroad cars that were once manufactured at the former Budd Co plant." (and I don't know this for sure, but I doubt Norman Foster ever thought of the railroad cars thing, it seems like something one of his designers or else the marketing people came up with, but that is speculation. I can't see him sitting in his studio, working on the design, and thinking "hmmmm, we need something here. Let's look at the railroad cars that were once manufactured at the former Budd Co plant. Eureka! that's it!" but again, I don't know for sure...)
why can't they just let the building be its own thing? why does it *have* to reference something else? why can't they just say that the metal bands are what they are because they look good and function well? It's such a stretch to try to reference something obscure like that, it seems so tacked on - like they really thought that the bands were just good design, but felt they had to justify it with this esoteric historic reference which has nothing to do with the building or the site or anything. It's crazy.