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Payette creates engineering building with a “folded form” at Penn State University

December 30, 2025 Jenna McKnight 0

Boston architecture studio Payette has completed an academic building in central Pennsylvania called ECoRE, which features a sculptural form and facades wrapped in reddish brick and metal fins. The Engineering Collaborative Research and Education Building, called ECoRE for short, is located on the university’s campus in the town of State College. It sits within a

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Philadelphia power plant transformed into sports venue

September 25, 2025 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local firms Good City Studio and Hexagon Studio Architects have converted the main turbine hall of a historic Philadelphia power plant into Ballers, a sports club that includes indoor pickleball, soccer and squash courts. Ballers is located inside a portion of the newly renovated  Delaware Power Station in Fishtown, Philadelphia, which was recently rebranded into

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Netflix to create “immersive experiences” in US malls

July 9, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Streaming service Netflix has announced Netflix House, an immersive retail, food, and entertainment experience based on popular series to be located in malls in Texas and Pennsylvania. Planned for Pennsylvania’s King of Prussia Mall and Galleria Dallas in Texas, Netflix House will be year-round destinations that bring the streaming service’s “beloved stories to life”. “At

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Sergio Mannino enlivens Philadelphia pharmacy with mauve and silver

April 13, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Brooklyn-based designer Sergio Mannino has chosen a palette of purple and silver for a Philadelphia pharmacy that helps patients affected by the opioid crisis. Located in the Philadelphia suburb of Cheltenham, the Angel Care Pharmacy is owned by Olivia Tchanque, who wanted the design of her space to reflect the care and sensitivity offered to

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Allied Works layers sandstone for facade of Pennsylvania museum

April 10, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

Brooklyn architecture studio Allied Works has created a building with interlocking boxy forms clad in sandstone and steel for the Palmer Museum of Art in University Park, USA. The sprawling structure serves as a home to The Pennsylvania State University’s (Penn State) art collections, which fill the galleries and storage areas of the 73,000-square-foot (6,781

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NORD Architects designs dementia care centre in Pennsylvania

March 19, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Copenhagen studio NORD Architects has designed its first project in the United States, a dementia care centre in Pennsylvania for elderly patients aimed at creating a welcoming environment to enhance knowledge and care around the disease. Called the Memory Care Center, the project will encompass a 150,700-square-foot (14,000 square metre) assisted-care campus that will host

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“Fashion meets art and design” at Pittsburgh boutique by NWDS

August 20, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Global team NWDS took a spontaneous approach to designing the Tons fashion boutique in Pittsburgh, which contains a mix of modest materials and iconic furniture pieces. The Tons store in the city’s East Liberty neighbourhood occupies a long, narrow building with its shorter side facing the street. Formerly an atelier, the two-storey structure was reimagined

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Shiftspace brings IM Pei rowhouse in Philadelphia back to “original vision”

July 3, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US studio Shiftspace has renovated a rowhouse in Philadelphia originally designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei, restoring its original qualities after decades of alterations. Designed by Pei as part of a row of houses in the 1950s, the three-storey unit in the Society Hill neighbourhood had undergone several renovations and extensions over the years. Shiftspace

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MSR Design places colourful buildings and walkways in skeleton of Pittsburgh steel mill

May 19, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Minneapolis-based architecture studio MSR Design has installed a tech campus within the shell of a 70-year-old abandoned steel mill in Pennsylvania, adding three colourful buildings and adding a massive solar array to the rooftop. The adaptive reuse project is located on a former brownfield site just a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh, in the city’s

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ZGF transforms Pittsburgh Ford Assembly plant into research facility

January 13, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Portland-based studio ZGF Architects has adapted a historic Ford Motor Company factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania into a biomedical research laboratory by renovating existing structures and creating a cantilevered terracotta-clad addition. ZGF – working with development group Wexford Science & Technology – reimagined the 224,866-square foot (20,890-square metre) factory to house state-of-the-art research labs, collaborative spaces,and community

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