AOS Architects collaborated with Archbishop John Carroll High School and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to convert an underutilized interior space into a vibrant, 6,600-square-foot student Wellness Center, a facility dedicated to supporting students’ academic, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Transforming the former library into the newly reimagined Connelly Wellness Center brings together a student lounge and gathering space, a guidance and mental-health suite, collaborative breakout rooms, conference rooms, a spiritual gathering area, and IT support facilities. This design embodies the school’s holistic mission of providing academic support, counseling, and faith formation services all in one central hub.

The welcoming “hearth” configuration supports both informal student interaction and structured gatherings. Around this hearth, furniture clusters support relaxed gatherings and study sessions, meeting pods and banquettes provide quieter collaborative zones, and two conference rooms serve broader program needs. Existing high-volume ceilings and clerestory windows supply daylight to the space.

Centrally located, the Connelly Wellness Center ensures that wellness resources and supportive services are easily accessible to students throughout their day at Archbishop Carroll.

Project Team:

MEP/FP Engineer: PSquared Consulting Engineers; Structural Engineer: Larsen & Landis; Cost Estimator: International Consultants, Inc.; Owner’s Representative: Aegis Property Group; Construction Manager: Adams Bickel Associates; Photography: Greg Benson

YouthBuild Philadelphia serves as a transformative alternative educational model serving 270+ young adults who have been previously disengaged from the public high school system. The School’s program is designed to be completely barrier free: students incur no additional costs for materials, supplies or uniforms. In many cases, the School also provides critical resources such as diapers, groceries, and temporary housing for a student body where many may have experienced homelessness, incarceration, and food insecurity. In just one year, students earn a high school diploma, complete 300 hours of service, and gain a vocational certification in one of three focus areas: healthcare, culinary arts, and the building trades.

YouthBuild’s previous facility did not meet their needs due to space limitations and its location on the upper floors of an office building. To provide the school with the space it needed, the scope of this project included developing a building program of approximately 34,000 SF, the assessment of multiple potential building sites, and the design and renovation for a new school facility at the selected site at 2309-2313 N. Broad Street. Originally constructed in 1930, the building once served as a Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) showroom and North Philadelphia district office. The adaptive reuse of this historic building transforms a neglected piece of the city’s architectural history into a vibrant, uplifting space that fosters education and community for Philadelphia students.

The new facility features dedicated training spaces for each of the school’s workforce development programs, 12 classrooms, administrative offices, and an inviting entrance with a central tiered seating element and staircase leading to a new mezzanine, thoughtfully inserted into the high volume of the ground floor. Designed to reflect the school’s core values of Respect, Excellence, and Perseverance, the entrance offers a warm, welcoming, and safe space for students. The original terrazzo flooring was carefully repaired and refinished, while the historic bronze façade was preserved where possible and updated with new aluminum storefront. To meet the School’s programmatic needs, a new third floor addition was built, providing a large multipurpose room, a food service space, and a rooftop terrace overlooking Broad Street. This rooftop terrace provides space for outdoor learning, student gathering, and sustainability education. Photovoltaic panels are planned for the roof and terrace trellis, and will be installed in part by the school’s GreenBuild training program in the coming year.

Project Team: Mark Ulrick Engineers, MEP/FP Engineer; Larsen & Landis, Structural Engineer; BEAM, Lighting Designer; Acentech, AV/IT; Bohler, Civil Engineer; GeoStructures, Geotechnical Engineer; International Consultants, Inc., Cost Estimator; Aegis, Owner’s Representative; P. Agnes, Construction Manager; Greg Benson, Photographer

Olin Hall, designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (architects of the Empire State Building), was constructed in 1941 and is home to the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at Cornell University. AOS recently completed the design of renovations in the building to create a new shared research lab and a collaboration space.

The new space on the building’s first floor provides a contemporary and student-centric “heart area” with an open and inviting lounge that supports academic and community life. The first-floor renovations also include improvements to offices for the Engineering Department faculty and staff. The new basement laboratory creates a modern and expanded facility that will support three CBE faculty researchers and their teams.

Project Team: MEP/FP Engineer, M/E Engineering; Lab Consultant, Jacobs Laboratory Consulting; Cost Estimator, ICI; Sustainability Consultant: Re:Vision

Following the completion of McCartney Street Phase 1 in 2020, AOS Architects worked with Lafayette College to design Phase 2. Phase 2 is a mixed-use building that further supports the needs of the growing college and honors the character of the surrounding neighborhood.

The 4-story building includes commercial space at street level and 166 beds in a variety of residential units above. The brick and cast stone construction aesthetically ties both phases together with the existing neighborhood on one side and the Lafayette campus on the other.

The residence hall houses suite-style bedroom apartments with private baths, kitchens, and living spaces. Common study rooms, lounges, laundries, and a game room are located to provide a range of opportunities to support the community and build fellowship among the students. The building mass forms two landscaped courtyards that front onto McCartney Street and provide usable outdoor spaces. Phase 2 received LEED Silver certification.

Project Team: 

Structural & MEP/FP Engineer: IMEG; Civil Engineer: Pennoni; Landscape Architect: Ground Reconsidered; Lighting Designer: Chroma LD; Sustainability Consultant: Re:Vision; Construction Manager: North Star; Photograpy: Jeffrey Totaro/Photos by Brian Lauer

Located on one of the busiest corners of Penn's campus, Stouffer Hall is a mixed-use building originally constructed in 1972. Two residence hall floors sit above ground floor retail shops, the Platt Performing Arts House, and administrative office spaces. The project includes a complete renovation of the residential floors, all new mechanical and electrical systems, and restoration of the exterior envelope.

One of the most difficult challenges in designing the renovation was to make the residential floors accessible. Each floor was originally designed as six stepped levels to match the slope of the site. A new elevator, lift, and a series of ramps were inserted to seamlessly connect all of the levels. Mechanical improvements include the addition of dedicated outdoor air units and perimeter valence units for heating and cooling. Six common lounge spaces are expressed on the façade with a high-performing curtain wall system and elevated roof structure.

The project recieved LEED ID+C Silver certification with special emphasis on a healthy indoor environment. The exterior walls received additional insulation and new, high-performing windows. The replacement windows improve indoor comfort and reduce energy usage. Sustainability goals are supported by the use of cross laminated timber structural infill to reduce the use of concrete and steel and therefore reduce embodied carbon. 

Project Team:

Structural Engineer: Hunt Engineering; MEP/FP Engineer: H. F. Lenz; Lighting Designer: The Lighting Practice; Sustainability Consultant: Re:Vision; Security/IT/Acoustics: Shen Milsom Wilke; Elevator Consultant: VDA; Cost Estimator: Envision; Construction Manager: T.N. Ward; Photographer: Halkin Mason Photography

The Brandywine Museum of Art is housed in a 19th-century mill building with steel and glass additions overlooking the scenic Brandywine Creek. The Wyeth and Sharp Galleries were constructed in 1983 and had not been renovated since that time. Many of the 1983 gallery design elements competed with the artwork, including a heavy, wood-beamed ceiling, exposed mechanical diffusers, a dark wood floor, and imposing light fixtures. AOS worked with Museum leadership to re-envision the spaces as neutral, flexible settings that meet current expectations for the display of their collection.

The gallery renovations removed existing heavy and dark finishes and replaced them with new lighting, ceilings, and HVAC distribution that allow the focus to be on the art. A new dry-pipe sprinkler system was installed in the renovated galleries and significant modifications of the HVAC system were made to improve temperature and humidity control.

The opening exhibit in the Wyeth Gallery - Abstract Flash: Unseen Andrew Wyeth, is the first exhibition to focus on Wyeth’s interest in the abstract art of his contemporaries and the roots of his own practice in abstract methods. The Sharp Gallery for American Illustration reopened with an exhibit on Howard Pyle, one of America’s most influential artists during the so-called Golden Age of Illustration.

Project Team:

Mechanical Engineer: IMEG (formerly known as Bruce Brooks & Associates); Lighting Designer: The Lighting Practice; Construction Manager: Whiting Turner; Photography: Dan Jackson; Owner's Project Manager: Aegis

Starting in 1898, Drexel University founder A.J. Drexel made it a point to start collecting historic textiles for the purposes of education and preservation. Created first in 2008, the Robert and Penny Fox Historic Costume Collection (FHCC) had been relocated to the renovated URBN center in a dedicated, but not properly climate controlled, storage space. Almost as soon as it moved to this new space, it was quickly realized the collection far exceeded the space provided. Housing over 20,000 articles of fashion, textiles, shoes, and related materials the collection is unique in that it is accessible to students and scholars in design, history, and culture.

Lacking in both properly conditioned collection space and gallery space to exhibit materials, AOS was engaged for a renovation project to expand and create needed spaces. Through coordination with the collection curator, the renovation was designed to include a dedicated gallery complete with humidity controlled display cases, installation of new mechanical systems with temperature and humidity control, new UV controlled lighting, expansion of the collection space with new compacting storage units, and the reorganization of the existing workroom and offices for more efficiency as well as increased visibility for the program and interaction with students and scholars.

College Hall was constructed as the first building on the University of Pennsylvania’s West Philadelphia campus. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property of the University of Pennsylvania’s Historic District. Home to the President’s office, the Provost’s office and academic departments, the building serves as the historic, symbolic, and physical heart of the campus.

Constructed of serpentine stone, a poor building stone, the building has required continuous and significant maintenance almost since it was completed in 1872. In 2017, AOS developed a restoration master plan to replace the remaining serpentine stone and otherwise improve the efficiency of the building envelope, and to upgrade building interiors and mechanical and life safety systems.

The most recent phase included replacement of the West Wing serpentine cladding, roof restoration, restoration and replacement of the building’s 344 historic monumental windows, completed in collaboration with Kelly Maiello Architects. The renovation of the West Wing interior, includes new classrooms and seminar rooms, administrative spaces for the Provost’s office and the Department of History, restoration of historic corridors and significant rooms, three new elevators, all new MEP systems, and other improvements to make the building fully accessible.

Meticulous research and attention to historic construction details ensured that this renovation restored College Hall’s stature, physical presence, and impact within the University community.

AOS Architects renovated and expanded Penn State Berks’ Beaver Community Center to provide purpose-built environments for the School’s Division III athletics programs, intramural athletics, the kinesiology program, fitness courses, and other recreational activities and special events. The project also includes a bridge connection and addition to the Perkins Student Center to accommodate a future dining hall and campus store. The project expands the original 28,000 sf building and transforms a boxy, anonymous structure into a welcoming, light-filled athletic facility with landscaped courtyards that activate and connect the building to the heart of the campus. 

Program spaces include a fully equipped athletic training and treatment center; new varsity locker rooms and team rooms; a light filled, multi-level fitness center; general use classrooms; an auxiliary gymnasium; and a suite of athletic and faculty offices.

The project also includes air conditioning and fire protection systems for all new and existing spaces. The design of the project incorporated a multi-phased construction schedule to allow for continuous operation and occupation of the building throughout. 

AOS is Architect of Record for the project, with Hastings + Chivetta, Design Architect.

Project Team: Design Architect, Hastings + Chivetta; Mechanical Engineer, Barton Associates; Structural Engineer, Hope Furrer Associates; Civil Engineer, Pennoni; Landscape Architect, Ground Reconsidered; Construction Manger, Poole Anderson; Photography, Sam Fentress

Founded in 2016, Philadelphia Contemporary is a contemporary art organization whose mission is to connect the people and places of Philadelphia through art and partnership. Currently nomadic, Philadelphia Contemporary presents visual art, performance art, and spoken word across the city.

AOS has been working with Philadelphia Contemporary to establish a permanent home for the organization and their events. The new facility will take the form of a unique, floating contemporary art gallery. The barge will be moored between the Cherry and Race Street piers on the Delaware River and will accommodate a 15,000SF two-story gallery building and outdoor terraces. Solar PV panels will support the net-zero energy goal of the project. The Floating Gallery will be periodically unmoored and tugged to different sites along the east coast, bringing attention to each location’s unique history, ecology, and potential.

The building design reflects Philadelphia Contemporary’s commitment to the site, the environment, and the community. In addition to providing a space for local artists to share their work, the Floating Gallery’s direct access to the river will allow Philadelphia Contemporary to use the water as a medium and platform for artistic projects. Artists, scientists, and thinkers will be able to creatively engage with the waters of the Delaware River in their projects and public programs. This will provide audiences with opportunities to learn about the ways in which their lives are connected with the river and to act in the best interest of all our futures.

Project Team: 
Structural Engineer: David Mason & Associates;  MEP Engineer: Mark Ulrick Engineers; Studio Sustena, Landscape Architect; AV/Acoustic Consultant NV5; BEAM, Lighting Consultant; Barge Consultant: Anchor Consultants; Sustainability Consultant: Transsolar Klima Engineering 

Delaware County Christian School is a Pre-K - 12 independent coeducational day school with an enrollment of 700 students on two campuses in suburban Philadelphia. Founded in 1949 on a historic estate in Newtown Square, PA, buildings were added to the campus over the years. The School purchased a second campus for the Lower School in 2009.

AOS Architects worked with the School to renovate and convert an underutilized facility into an engaging student space. The new Student Center, located along a main pedestrian thoroughfare and overlooking the School’s playing fields, provides a variety of spaces for student activities and engagement and enhances the quality of life for the entire campus community. The design for the Center includes the adaptive re-use of the Middle School gymnasium to create a new 300-seat dining hall, servery, commercial kitchen, and fitness center. The new Dining Hall features a mezzanine that houses student lounge spaces with game tables, flexible seating areas, and a fireplace. Large windows were inserted into a solid wall to provide generous views of the campus.

Project Team: Mechanical Engineer, Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Structural Engineer, MacIntosh; Lighting Designer, Diversified Lighting; General Contractor, W.S. Cumby; Photography, Greg Benson

AOS Architects worked with the City of Allentown to design a reimagined use of the Arts Park green space. Bordered by the Allentown Museum of Art, Miller Symphony Hall, and the Baum School of Art, the Arts Park is the starting point of the City’s Arts Walk, a developing corridor of art, history, and culture.

The proposed renovation and addition to the Arts Park adds to its ethos of celebrating arts and culture by allowing it to function as a performing arts venue. The focal point of the Arts Park improvements is the Arts Park Pavilion, a new performance space and band shell that houses a green room and restroom for visiting performers. The Pavilion provides year-round accommodations for local and regional music and theater events including ticketed concerts, free public performances, and informal gatherings.

The Arts Park Pavilion is one piece of the multi-phased plan for the park. The full scope of the project includes new landscaping, paving and lighting that will improve the functionality and accessibility of the park and better connect the park to its surrounding urban context. Improvements to an existing plaza will further transform the space by adding an open-air café and additional gathering spaces.

Project Team:
Landscape Architect: Omnes Studio
Structural Engineer: Jon Morrison & Associates

Stiteler Hall dates from 1963 and is one of four buildings in the University of Pennsylvania’s Social Sciences Quad. Stiteler houses several large classrooms shared by the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and Penn’s Central Pool Classroom system. Two tiered-floor classrooms were converted to active, collaborative learning classrooms for this renovation, which are designed to support learning strategies by actively engaging students with course content through structured activities such as problem solving and data interpretation. The rooms are primarily used as pool classrooms during the week and by the GSE’s Executive Education program on the weekends.

The new design included the removal of existing non-bearing brick walls within the classrooms and the removal of the exterior, opaque, precast concrete wall, creating two larger, rectangular classrooms. The new exterior wall along Penn’s 37th Street Walk incorporates full-height, custom profile windows that complement the existing building fenestration. Opening up the exterior wall with expansive glazing brings daylight deep into the former windowless rooms, creating an airy and inviting space. An access flooring system maximized future flexibility and an operable acoustic partition between the rooms allows them to be used as two separate classrooms or as one large space. Interior renovations included all new finishes and lighting, new AV systems, and renovations to the HVAC system.

Project Team:

Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood; MEP Engineer and Lighting Design: AKF; Acoustic Consultant: Metropolitan Acoustics; Cost Consultant: Envision

AOS Architects worked with Lafayette College and Radnor Property Group to plan and implement several new student housing projects to accommodate the College’s projected enrollment increase from 2,500 students to 2,900 students. Located in the College Hill neighborhood of Easton, the McCartney Street Housing Phase 1 project includes two linked 4-story, mixed-use structures containing a new bookstore and college diner, and 165 student beds.

The two buildings are constructed of brick and cast stone with gabled, standing seam metal roofs that reflect the materials and residential character of the neighborhood. A spacious, landscaped terrace and public amphitheater form the centerpiece of the project. A future phase of the project on an adjacent site will provide the College with an additional 170 beds, a community-based wellness center, and additional retail space.

Project Team:

Structural Engineer: The Harmon Group; Mechanical Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Landscape Architecture: Ground Reconsidered; Civil Engineer: Pennoni; Lighting Consultant: Chroma LD; Façade Consultant: RWDI; Construction Manager: Wohlsen

Atkin Olshin Schade Architects has been working with Eastern State Penitentiary since 2011 on several projects to increase public access to their National Historic Landmark building and to enhance spaces for interpretation, public programs and visitor services.

Eastern State Penitentiary is one of the most historic prisons in the United States. Opened in 1829 as a new model for rehabilitating criminals through solitary confinement, the prison closed permanently in 1971 after deterioration and over-crowding left it obsolete. Much of the site remains in a state of ruin.

AOS completed a master plan for the site that positions Eastern State Penitentiary as a leader in building conservation, historical interpretation, and contemporary discussion of crime, punishment, reform, and redemption. The plan balances ongoing stabilization and conservation of the historic buildings and grounds while accommodating support facilities for 250,000 annual visitors.

Construction was recently completed on a visitor services pavilion that provides sheltered gathering space for visitors arriving for tours of the historic prison. The pavilion’s steel butterfly roof stands as a counterpoint to the original stone structure. This phase of work also includes significant stormwater management and electrical upgrades for the full city block site, restoration of the historic Bertillon entry doors, and a new accessible entry.

AOS is currently working on Phase 2 of the project, the design of the new Visitor Center. The Center includes a spacious glass-roofed multi-purpose room that encloses an underutilized courtyard, as well as exhibit spaces and other visitor amenities.

Project Team:

Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood; MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Civil Engineer: Cedarville Engineering Group, LLC; Builder: Wolfe Scott Associates; Owner's Representative: Jessica Senker; Photography: Greg Benson

Located in Newtown Square, PA, The Episcopal Academy, a K-12 independent school, has a student enrollment of 1,200 and provides exceptional academic and recreational facilities on its 123-acre campus. A growing enrollment in recent years has required strategic, comprehensive and creative renovations and additions throughout the campus.

AOS designed a 100-seat expansion for Episcopal's Tierney Dining Hall to accommodate their current needs and plans for future programs. The additions greatly improve the flow of students through the space, and the reconfiguration of the servery and kitchen support the School's focus on providing students with a variety of fresh and healthy meal options. The Dining Hall additions bring abundant natural light deep into the dining spaces. The main addition can be divided from the remainder of the space to serve as a private dining room. A terraced patio provides an inviting entryway and a partially-shaded outdoor patio.

Project Team

Structural Engineer: O'Donnell & Naccarrato; MEP Engineer: Bala; Civil Engineer & Landscape Consultant: Chester Valley Engineers; Food Service Consultant: McFarland Kistler & Associates; Lighting Consultant: Beam, Ltd.; Photography: Whitney Cox

University libraries have always been important hubs of campus life, filled with social and intellectual activities. As study habits have changed with the advent of digital access, library spaces once reserved for book storage and back-of-house services are now better used for student-focused spaces. Lehigh University’s E. W. Fairchild Martindale Library has undertaken multiple projects that take advantage of newly available and reconfigured spaces. The most significant change is the installation of The Grind at FML, a new café. The Grind is located in a prominent corner of the main level of the Library which formerly housed staff offices. The existing windows were enlarged to bring abundant light into the café and to provide views to a new outdoor dining terrace. Finishes, furniture, and custom millwork were designed to complement the mid-century modern aesthetic of the existing building.

A new Help Desk combines circulation, laptop lending, and help services into a central location in the library’s atrium space. Eight study rooms were added on an upper level. The study rooms can seat six to eight students working together in a study group and can be reserved online.

Project Team: MEP Engineer: H. F. Lenz, Civil Engineer: Langan, AV/IT: Acentech, Photography: Jeff Totaro, Ken Prutzman

Cornell's Computing and Information Science Department (CIS), based in Gates Hall, lacked space to house its rapidly growing programs. AOS redesigned the long, narrow bar on the first floor of nearby Rhodes Hall, originally a machine shop, into a new undergraduate study center to support CIS students. The satellite study center features a variety of flexible seating arrangements and study settings to accommodate both group and individual study. Several faculty maker-labs and meeting spaces are included in the program. The new spaces feature state-of-the-art technology and provide a conceptual connection to Gates Hall, across Hoy Field from Rhodes Hall.

Project Team
MEP Engineer: M/E Engineering; Acoustics and AV: Acentech; Furniture: Executive Interiors; Photography: Halkin Mason

In 2016, Lehigh University announced ambitious plans to add up to 1,000 new undergraduate students and 500-800 full-time graduate students over the next eight years. As part of this initial growth plan, Lehigh announced a competition for a developer-led residence hall project team to provide a new student housing facility as the first part of their Path to Prominence growth plan. AOS, as part of the Greystar team, was selected as the competition winner for SouthSide Commons, a new 428-bed apartment style residence hall. The site for the new building is at the edge of the Lehigh University campus on Brodhead Street. The six-story 165,000-square-foot building includes a fitness center, study lounges, and three distinct landscaped courtyards. The challenging site slopes down from the campus to the north dropping 50’ in elevation along the building’s length providing commanding views from the new residence hall to downtown Bethlehem, the former Bethlehem Steel plant, and the Lehigh River beyond.

The design of the exterior of SouthSide Commons draws inspiration from both the City’s industrial past and from the University’s own buildings; the building is clad with iron-spot brick masonry and vertically-ribbed metal panels to create a lively, contemporary pattern that respects the historic context. Abundant natural light, south-facing sunshades, recycled and recyclable materials, and highly efficient mechanical systems address both sustainability goals and support Lehigh’s reputation as an outstanding academic institution with an engineering focus. The building opened for student occupancy in August 2019.

Project Team:
Civil Engineer: Pennoni; Structural Engineer: O'Donnell & Naccarato; MEP Engineer: Bala; Landscape Architect: Andropogon; Envelope: RWDI; Photography: Jeffrey Totaro

Led by Creative Santa Fe and New Mexico Inter-Faith Housing, the Siler Yard: Arts+Creativity Center provides urgently needed live/work housing and an affordable community studio space for the city’s lower-income artistic workforce. The project aims to provide a space for creative entrepreneurs to find financial independence while building their careers. 

Siler Yard features a 65-unit affordable housing development that includes eight residential buildings with four different configurations that maximize space and natural light. The design combines corrugated metal siding and sloped roofs with stucco and flat roofs, reflecting the neighborhood’s industrial aesthetic. Each home features high ceilings and work studios that look out to a central spine of greenery that connects a plaza, playgrounds, and a shared workspace building. Designed to be energy-efficient, rooftop solar arrays will generate all the energy necessary to sustain the development. 

An innovative public engagement effort, funded through an NEA Our Town grant, brought together over 30 creative members of the community to consult on the project’s programming and design. The project is designed to serve the needs of diverse and economically disadvantaged groups in the community whose contributions have shaped Santa Fe into the artistic and cultural hub it is today. By providing a much-needed platform for the city’s creative workforce, the project spurs community development and the local arts economy, adding resiliency to Santa Fe’s position as an artistic and cultural destination.

Credits:
Local Architect: MASS Design Group; Landscape Architect: Surroundings Studio; Civil Engineer: Wilson & Company; General Contractor: Pavilion; Photography: Kate Russell.

Founded in 1689, Friends Select is an independent, college preparatory school in a mid-century urban building that serves 500, pre-K to 12th-grade students. AOS’s work aimed at improving the school’s athletic facilities, classrooms for the youngest students, performing arts space, circulation and overall energy efficiency.

The renovation of the historic Blauvelt Theatre has truly sparked the imagination of the Friends community. Heavily utilized for classes, performances, ceremonies, professional development and neighborhood gatherings, the Theatre now seats 364 on two levels, with additional accessible seating. A multi-purpose venue with lighting and acoustics designed for theatrical, music and spoken-word performances, the Theatre now supports and inspires students to reach well beyond their grasp.

​Project Team:
Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood Engineers; MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Acoustics/AV: Metropolitan Acoustics; Construction Manager: Wolfe Scott; Photographer: Matt Wargo

Atkin Olshin Schade Architects (AOS) is exhibiting their innovative architectural preservation work at the Global Art Affairs (GAA) Foundation, concurrent with the 2018 Venice Biennale. The exhibit, titled A Future-Oriented Preservation, is on display at GAA’s European Cultural Centre as part of the exhibition, TIME SPACE EXISTENCE from 26 May to 25 November 2018. The Centre is located at the Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy.

A Future-Oriented Preservation features two case studies: Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site (ESP) in Philadelphia, PA and Owe’neh Bupingeh in Ohkay Owingeh, NM. ESP, in operation from 1829-1971, is the most influential prison ever built, inspiring the design of more than 330 prisons across the world and spurring international debate  on criminal justice. The prison was abandoned in 1971 and much of building remains in ruinous condition. A Master Plan and new Visitor Center, now in design, provide an introduction to the social experiment and the National Historic Landmark; the Plan calls for some portions of the building to be renovated while others are designated to deteriorate further, marking the passage of time.

The Owe’neh Bupingeh preservation project reinvigorates the plazas and dwellings of the central village of Ohkay Owingeh, one of 19 Native American Pueblos in New Mexico. The adobe homes have undergone seven centuries of growth, abandonment, and alteration. Whereas Western preservation dogma asks how the village looked originally, when it had the greatest integrity, and how it should be restored to better represent the past, the people of Ohkay Owingeh recognize that no moment in time has greater significance than any other. Their “period of significance” is tomorrow.

AOS Architects believes that places of the past should be preserved not simply because of their age, but because the insight they offer into our complex cultures is relevant to contemporary life and can provide guidance as we enter the future. The exhibit challenges the conventional idea that preservation is about materiality and illustrates the important role it plays in contemporary life. The exhibition’s message is that preservation is more about the future than the past.

Financed by low income tax credits, the Wa-Di Housing development is located on eight acres of the Kewa Reservation, not far from the Pueblo’s Historic Main Village. Designed by Atkin Olshin Schade with the Sustainable Native Communities Collaborative and members of the Kewa Pueblo, the forty-one affordable rentals are a mix of single and two-story units in an architectural style that is specific to the Kewa culture. The homes respect the tribe’s historical preference for density and shared community spaces. Homes are designed with passive solar heating; there are individual garden plots and community gardens. Integrated into the development is a 3,000-square-foot community center with daycare, computer lab, playground and basketball court, and large multipurpose space for social events. The project allows the Pueblo community to accommodate increases in population, develop community programming and further celebrate its cultural heritage.

Community meetings drove the planning and design process as needs were identified, options considered, and design concepts refined. This project included a heritage site walk with Pueblo leaders and the community as part of a larger planning goal to bring together two distinct historic areas on the reservation: the Wa-Di housing site near the Railrunner stop and the Pueblo core, the community’s cultural and spiritual center. Each home is provided with a small and well ventilated work shed, designed to house flexible studio space for resident artists and craftsmen. Traditional stone grinding, a critical part of jewelry making, results in poor air quality when done inside the home.

​Project Team:
Structural Engineer: Luchini-Trujillo Structural Engineers, Inc.; MEP Engineer: Rock Gap Engineering; Civil Engineer: Forsgren Associates, Inc. Landscape Architect: Design Studio

Surrounded by bountiful lavender fields, Los Poblanos is an historic hacienda with a boutique inn, organic farm, restaurant, retail shop and production workshop adjacent to the Rio Grande. Atkin Olshin Schade added 28 new guest rooms and renovated all of the main farm structures, moving the field-to-fork restaurant into an expanded historic barn complex, including a 2,800-square-foot commercial-grade kitchen, new lavender production facility, and enlarged retail farm shop.

The new guest rooms and suites are the center piece of the expansion and are designed to recall 1930s dairy-style buildings with pitched tin roofs and walls alternating between white stucco, stained wood, and corrugated metal. The new restaurant provides a bar, dining and special event space overlooking the gardens, petanque court and lavender fields. Maintaining the same rustic elegance as the existing structures, the expansion allows the community-based farm to meet the popular demand for agro-tourism sites supporting indigenous New Mexico culture. Designed in 1932 by modernist architect John Gaw Meem, the hacienda is the center of a family hospitality and lavender products business that will further thrive with enhanced facilities. 

Project Team

Landscape Architect: OLIN; Structural Engineer: AGI Consultants; MEP Engineer: M&E Engineering; Civil Engineer: Mark Goodwin & Associates; Kitchen Consultant: Kitchen Restaurant + Bar Specialists; Construction Manager: g2i Construction; Photography: Doug Merriam and Kate Russell

The Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972, returned to use as a live music venue on December 3, 2018 with a sold-out show by Bob Dylan. When the Met first opened on North Broad Street in 1908 it was one of the largest theaters of its kind. It served as an opera house through 1934 and remained in use as a movie theater, ballroom, sports venue, and a church. The Met had fallen into serious disrepair in recent years and was unused and vacant from 1988 until 1995 when it was purchased for use as the Holy Ghost Headquarters Revival Center. The $56 million renovation dramatically refurbished the 3,400 seat historic showplace and will spur further development along the city’s central corridor.

​Project Team:
Developer: EBRM; Tenant: Live Nation; Construction Manager: Domus; Structural Engineer: David Chou & Associates; MEP Engineer: Concord Engineering Group; Historic Consultant: Powers & Company; Photography: Whitney Cox, Hugh Loomis, Live Nation

St. David’s Episcopal Church occupies a magnificent, 35-acre wooded site in suburban Wayne, PA. The original stone church, built in 1715, sits within a historic cemetery on the lower portion of the site. The upper part of the site consists of four structures built between 1925 and 1975. The older structures are characterized by the use of local fieldstone, large, clear glass windows, simple white painted trim and moldings, cedar roofs, and copper gutters and downspouts.

Our office designed a new 700-seat sanctuary to accommodate the growing parish and a new pipe organ designed and built by Dobson Pipe Organ Builders. The project also included the renovation of the existing Chapel to accommodate a Fellowship Hall, and the addition of classroom and administrative spaces.

Significant design challenges included the need to locate a large addition to the site without overwhelming the existing buildings, to provide additional parking, and to meet strict township requirements for stormwater management. Our design, which orients the new sanctuary 90 degrees to the existing Chapel, creates a new courtyard garden and allows for parking to occupy the remainder of the site. The additions are constructed with materials and details that maintain the straightforward vernacular of the existing historic buildings and that unify the entire complex.

Project Team
Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood; MEP Engineer: E&M Engineering; Civil Engineer: Cahill Associates; Construction Manager: WS Cumby; Photography: Tom Crane

The Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial is a prominent and thriving community arts center. Founded in 1898, Fleisher serves over 16,000 people annually through a variety of studio classes, workshops, exhibition programs, and public school outreach. Fleisher’s campus is an eclectic mix of historic buildings within a single urban block, including rowhouses, a former Romanesque Revival church structure, and a former school building. The sanctuary within the former church is the heart of Fleisher; it serves as an exhibition space, concert hall, community space, art and dance studio, and meeting space.

A primary goal for the master plan was to create a distinct campus identity for this assortment of existing buildings. We identified opportunities that recognize Fleisher’s Strategic Plan goals through a series of town hall-style meetings held with local community groups and other stakeholders. We explored ways to accommodate an expanded arts curriculum within the existing facilities and evaluated opportunities for a new building. The master plan envisions a partnership with a local developer whereby Fleisher can address deferred maintenance for the existing buildings and construct a new facility on their nearby surface parking lot. The new facility will accommodate purpose-built flexible studio spaces, exhibition areas, a café, and a rooftop terrace. Streetscape improvements will include new paving, lighting, outdoor furniture, and plantings to highlight the reimagined Fleisher campus.

Project Team
MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood; Landscape Architect: Studio|Bryan Hanes; Civil Engineer: Doubleday Design; Development Consultant: Artspace; Community Facilitator: Penn Project for Civic Engagement

Working in collaboration with OLIN landscape architects, we completed a master plan for Colorado College that prioritized an understanding of the campus, the city of Colorado Springs, and the needs of the College. We worked with the College to understand the successful principles, values, and aspects of previous campus plans and the areas where new directions were called for by the evolving ambitions of the College. By defining the long-term vision for Colorado College and identifying catalytic and implementable projects, the master plan goals are creating enthusiasm and momentum. The central challenge of the plan was refining the campus so that it best reflects the needs and spirit of the College’s innovative “block plan” in which students take one course at a time resulting in unique patterns of use both in the course of a single day and throughout the calendar year.

Programming and design workshops included faculty, students, staff, and trustees and focused on activities, discussions and presentations that solicited the opinions, ideas, concerns, and goals of this highly creative and articulate community. 

The master plan assimilated the principals and aspirations gleaned from the College throughout the planning process and stitched them together with the unique architecture and diverse landscapes of the campus to create a cohesive sense of place at the College.

Project Team
Landscape Architect: OLIN

Mill Grove, the first home in America of artist and ornithologist John James Audubon, is owned and operated as an education and conservation center by the National Audubon Society and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. The 247-year-old farmhouse and rolling acres of pastoral fields and forests that make up the estate have enormous historical, cultural, and aesthetic significance. Our master site development plan for the John James Audubon Center is the result of a community-based strategic planning effort. It sets forth a comprehensive vision for managing and interpreting the historic, artistic and natural heritage of the property.

Our master site development plan focuses on improvements to the historic core of the property and incorporates all of its structures, while adding a new centrally-located visitor center to provide education and exhibit display space. We tied together and built upon prior planning efforts in order to streamline processes and conserve funding. All of these efforts support our central goal of celebrating the legacy of John James Audubon by providing unique and meaningful experiences through teaching environmental stewardship, demonstrating best conservation practices, protecting the site’s rich natural and cultural resources, and enhancing habitats for birds and other wildlife.

Project Team
Owner’s Project Manager: CVM; MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Landscape Architect: Viridian Landscape Studio; Civil Engineer: Melioria; Exhibit Design: Metcalfe Architecture & Design; Interpretive Planner: Remer & Talbott​

The new police station building for Lehigh University fits on a narrow parcel of land at the north edge of campus adjacent to a residential neighborhood. The facility is designed to support extensive technology and to meet strict spatial and security requirements dictated by Commonwealth accreditation standards.

The building’s design responds to its unique wedge-shaped site and also reflects the dual nature of the activities within. The long façade that faces the University is angled to emphasize the wedged shaped parcel. The angle creates widened corridors on both levels of the building. A clerestory window above the dispatch center, which is manned 24 hours a day, allows daylight into the secure space during the day and serves as a beacon to the community at night.

The separation of public and private aspects of the activities within are reflected in the building’s design. The public enters the building on the upper level which houses interview rooms, detectives’ offices, a training room, and the dispatch center. The lower level entry, adjacent to patrol car parking, is primarily for police officers and detainees. The lower level program includes an impound area, holding cells, evidence testing, and secure storage.

Project Team
MEP Engineer: HF Lenz Company; Structural Engineer: O’Donnell & Naccarato; Civil Engineer: Langan; Landscape Architect: Langan; Contractor: Boyle Construction; Photography: Halkin Mason​

The Union League of Philadelphia was founded in 1862 as a patriotic society and city club that supported the Union and policies advocated by Abraham Lincoln. We were asked to design its new Heritage Center, which is located on the ground floor of the original Union League Building, a National Register Building constructed in 1865. We restored the two major public rooms of the Center to their original configuration, reopened historic windows and removed various layers of insensitive renovations made over the last century. 

Although most of the original Victorian finishes were removed in previous renovations, our design recreated selected features as integral components of the new design. The interior decoration of the space incorporates furnishings original to the building that were restored for use in the Heritage Center.

The facility includes historic research and collection storage areas designed to meet contemporary museum standards, a formal reading room and executive administration areas. An exhibition space for the display of the League’s historical collection includes an important set of Abraham Lincoln documents, Civil War books, manuscripts, and objects, as well as the archives and memorabilia of this important institution. The Center’s formal rooms are designed to accommodate special events, presentations and meetings.

Project Team
Interiors: Eberlein Design Consultants; Owner’s Project Manager: Aegis; Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood; MEP Engineer: Urban; Construction Manager: DJ Keating; Photography: Halkin Mason, Rick Echelmeyer​

Chartered in 1874, the Loomis Chaffee School is a coed boarding school located on a rural 300-acre campus in Windsor, Connecticut. AOS Architects assisted the School with goals to establish a master plan for improving an existing campus quadrangle and enhance the strong traditional campus aesthetic.

The Scanlan Campus Center, which opened to great acclaim in the fall of 2018, has become a vibrant and active center of student life, with spaces for dining, studying, and socializing. The Center, which is an addition to the distinctive 1913 Loomis Hall, the School’s original refectory, includes two commercial kitchens, a large,  open servery offering made-to-order meals, two dining halls that accommodate 575 students, a retail cafe, a state-of-the-art maker space, a variety of flexible and inviting student lounge areas, a bookstore, and faculty and student organization offices. The building is filled with natural light and offers views out to the campus through generous windows. A large skylight in the servery, combined with beautiful and durable finishes, creates an inviting atmosphere for students and food service workers. A paved terrace adjacent to the dining room provides a casual and inviting place for students to gather overlooking the activity of the academic quad.

Project Team
​Owner’s Project Manager: JFW, Inc.; MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Structural Engineer: CVM; Civil Engineer: Alford Associates; Landscape Architect: Reed Hilderbrand; Lighting Designer: Beam; Contractor: Newfield Construction; Photography: Jane Messinger

Community Legal Services is a nonprofit law firm whose mission is to help low-income Philadelphia residents obtain equal access to justice by providing them with advice and representation in civil legal matters. When CLS outgrew their existing space in North Philadelphia, they purchased a lot in the same neighborhood for a new, larger building. We worked with them to design a building that would enhance the neighborhood, which has suffered from decades of neglect. A major design goal was to create a welcoming facility that improved accessibility and provided a higher level of service for their clients. The new building’s qualities of light, space and openness provide an enjoyable work environment for the attorneys and their clients, while a patterned glass window wall on the front facade provides both transparency and privacy.

Temple Adath Israel is a conservative synagogue in suburban Philadelphia. Our firm worked on an extensive, multiple phase renovation and addition project for their well-known Pietro Belluschi-designed synagogue, which is distinguished by its openness and striking stained glass ceiling. As other synagogues in the area closed, Temple Adath Israel has welcomed many new members to their congregation. Consequently, the campus has grown over the years resulting in a confusing entry and circulation system. The congregation needed additional space and a more flexible sanctuary that could accommodate contemporary worship styles.

Our design enhances the characteristic features of Belluschi’s modernist building and addresses current functional and programmatic issues. The renovated sanctuary includes new and restored finishes, lighting, audiovisual systems, and furniture. A new moveable bimah, ark, and award-winning glass installation by artist Paul Housberg complement the modernist architecture.

The most recent phase of the project included the renovation of the existing lobby to create a welcoming new entry as well as new exterior landscaping and the renovation of the interior courtyard. 

Project Team 
Interior Renovation & Addition: Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood;  MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates; Lighting Designer: Beam; Contractor: Wohlsen; Photography: Tom Crane
Exterior Entry and Lobby: Structural Engineer: Keast & Hood;  MEP Engineer: Bruce E. Brooks & Associates (IMEG); Civil Engineer: Site Engineering Concepts; Landscape Architect: Ground Reconsidered; Photography: Jeffrey Totaro 

The University of Pennsylvania’s Alfred Newton Richards Medical Research Laboratory is an important building by Louis I. Kahn, one of the greatest architects of the 20th century. The site includes three original laboratory towers and a central service tower. Two additional towers, the Goddard Laboratories, complete the complex. Our firm recently completed two phases of renovations to create state of the art medical research space in the Richards building and on one floor in Goddard.

The design of Richards, while groundbreaking, never fully served the original laboratory program to its best advantage. The ambitious restoration and renovation project for the buildings included replacement of the exterior glazing and mechanical/electrical systems, and established design and preservation standards for interior renovations. Key to the success of this new program was the removal of wet labs from the buildings and replacement with other medical research labs that require less plumbing and fewer air changes. The renovations have significantly reduced energy usage in the buildings.

The work involved adapting research spaces for individual research groups each with specific spatial needs and technology requirements. We designed the spaces to meet the needs of each user while following design and preservation guidelines established by EYP. The renovation removed layers of existing finishes to reveal the building’s original concrete truss construction. All new mechanical and electrical systems were carefully integrated to respect Kahn’s original design intent.

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology contains galleries and storage spaces for its world-renowned collections, as well as teaching spaces for Penn’s Anthropology Department. We have assisted the University Museum with the ongoing renewal and expansion of its landmark structure, which was originally designed by Wilson Eyre, Cope & Stewardson, and Frank Miles Day. The Museum is an eclectic architectural composition that has been added onto many times since opening in 1899. Our work at the Museum has included a Historic Structure Report and planning studies, preservation and rehabilitation of the existing building and courtyard, as well as gallery restorations and reinstallations. These efforts culminated in the 37,000 square foot Mainwaring Wing.

The Mainwaring Wing houses a state-of-the-art storage facility for the Museum’s celebrated ethnographic collections. In laying out the new wing, we created a clear division between the collection storage areas along the east side and studies, seminar rooms, and offices for scholars on the west side. The two primary facades of the addition reflect the dual nature of the building’s internal program. The east facade is clad in a limestone and bronze-panel rainscreen wall that provides a protective enclosure for the collections while the west facade is composed of brick and limestone which match the adjacent building, and large windows that provide views to the courtyard. In collaboration with OLIN Landscape Architects, our firm redesigned the historic Stoner Courtyard Garden to become a pedestrian, public open space.

Bryn Mawr College’s 132-acre campus, recognized as one of the most beautiful in the country, is characterized by a rolling landscape and distinctive Collegiate Gothic buildings that form a wonderfully scaled experience for those who study and work there. The residence halls are much loved by students for their unique features and are considered one of the best assets of the College’s student life. Atkin Olshin Schade Architects worked with Bryn Mawr College on the design of the first new residence hall built on campus in over fifty years. This posed an opportunity to evaluate how to provide contemporary amenities while upholding Bryn Mawr’s ongoing legacy.

We worked with multiple users to design the Miller Campus Center, an inviting and comfortable gathering place that has become the center of student and community life at SMU-in-Taos. The project includes renovations to the existing dining hall, site work to improve building accessibility, and a 9,000 SF addition. The addition includes a welcoming entry, the Great Hall, which is a versatile gathering space for groups of all sizes, as well as a media center, a fitness center, classrooms, and seminar rooms. With sweeping views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains on three sides and a monumental stone fireplace, the Great Hall has become a favorite venue for social, cultural and educational activity on campus. The Center’s exterior plaza provides a central outdoor space and transforms a collection of buildings into a true campus.

One of the most important steps taken by the University of Pennsylvania and the City of Philadelphia to revitalize West Philadelphia was the establishment of the Penn Alexander School, which has become a national model for how higher education institutions can meaningfully contribute to the betterment of the communities in which they reside. The Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander University of Pennsylvania Partnership School is a new K-8 public school located on a five-acre site in the Spruce Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia. We designed a new, freestanding structure that provides classroom space for 700 students. This community school offers a rich academic program for neighborhood children and serves as a demonstration facility for the Philadelphia School District and the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.

The Kewa Safety Complex serves the Santo Domingo Pueblo, located between Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. It provides new facilities for the Kewa tribe’s growing Emergency Medical Services and Volunteer Fire Department and houses a police substation for the state, county, tribal and Bureau of Indian Affairs police departments.

The building demonstrates the sophisticated technology requirements of today’s emergency response teams, while also respecting the traditional values and architectural heritage of the Pueblo. In planning the building, we met with the Safety Complex staff, who apprised us of the architectural principles used by the Pueblo communities, such as providing views from the interior to the mountains and sky to provide a sense of connection to nature.

One of the great Ivy League universities, Dartmouth College is renowned for its academics and residential life, which are integral to its formative undergraduate experience. We were asked to design Fahey Hall and McLane Hall, which together create a new 205–bed undergraduate residence hall. The building faces Tuck Mall and is adjacent to many historically important Georgian Revival buildings. Therefore, it was paramount that we develop a contextually sympathetic design. We oriented the building along an east-west axis to take advantage of the southern exposure; it steps down with the slope of the site and provides wonderful views of the campus and woods.

The new building completes a residential cluster with Russell Sage and Butterfield Halls, and provides interior and exterior spaces to encourage activities and interaction among all of the students in the cluster. A combination of hardscape and planted areas form outdoor areas that serve multiple functions. Inside, the largest commons room accommodates up to 250 people for lectures, presentations, films, and dinners. Study lounges, living rooms and kitchens on each floor accommodate students’ residential, social and academic needs. Dartmouth has a strong commitment to energy conservation, and we used an integrated approach to building systems, including ground-source heat rejection, to obtain LEED Gold certification.

Project Team
Structural Engineer: Silman; MEP Engineer: Flack & Kurtz; Civil Engineer: McFarland Johnson; Landscape Architect: Saucier + Flynn; Sustainability: Energysmiths; Photography: Jeffrey Totaro

This 3,000 sf residence, situated on 3 acres of land in Santa Fe, NM, has sweeping views of the Jemez Mountains from every room. Environmentally sensitive building techniques are employed throughout the home, including a roof collection system for rain water harvesting and storage, adobe walls for thermal mass, windows and roof overhangs that maximize solar gain in winter and shading in summer, and operable windows on two sides of every space for natural ventilation. A separate detached casita with its own porch facing the Ortiz Range to the south is connected to the main house along a stone walkway.

The building is entered from a lower courtyard and the entry sequence gradually reveals views of gardens and the mountains beyond, and blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.

Xeriscape and minimal site intrusion maintain and enhance the existing high desert flora and fauna. Indigenous materials are used throughout the project. The fireplace, some exterior walls, and terrace paving are constructed of local sandstone. Exposed Douglas Fir beams and trim, and natural earthen plasters finish the interior spaces.

​Project Team
Landscape Architects: Laurie Olin and Victoria Steiger

Ohkay Owingeh, or “Place of the Strong People,” was established on the Rio Grande over 600 years ago. Located 30 miles north of Santa Fe, it is the largest of the Tewa pueblos. Its historic core contains over 100 buildings, including ancient homes, and an 1890 chapel. The buildings were in poor condition and 30% of the dwellings were uninhabitable. Such deterioration was not only a life safety hazard; it threatened the ongoing existence of an entire community. We worked closely with the Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority on a preservation plan for Owe’neh Bupingeh, which is the Tewa name for the plazas. Our plan provides for quality housing within restored and new buildings, while returning the area to its traditional form. It also provides meaningful educational and workforce training for the Pueblo residents.

The project began after we secured a grant from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division through which we trained Pueblo students in GIS technology and mapped the village. The plan included assessments of all dwellings and preservation standards developed collaboratively with the tribe. Oral histories from tribal elders regarding the physical history of the Pueblo were integrated into our findings.

Four phases of construction are complete, which were funded through HUD grants. These phases involved the addition of modern amenities and adobe restoration, including the reintroduction of mud plaster to the buildings’ fabric. Pueblo residents were trained in these restoration techniques and, as a result of this program, have found jobs restoring adobe structures both locally and as experts leading projects in other countries. Phase 5 began construction in the fall of 2021.

In concert with OLIN Landscape Architects, we designed a new 442-car parking garage and sculpture garden for the distinguished Philadelphia Art Museum that exemplifies how architecture, sustainable design and landscape can combine to create beautiful and usable outdoor spaces.

The Museum is part of Philadelphia’s Parkway Museums District and stands at the edge of Fairmount Park, one of America’s great urban parks. The garage is almost entirely underground and visually extends a hillside within Fairmount Park. We concealed the remainder of the garage with landscaped boulder walls constructed to match the original historic landscape. The one-acre green garage roof serves as the heart of the sculpture garden and an elegant glass pavilion marks the pedestrian entry to the garage and sculpture garden.

Winding paths provide varied views of the sculptures and a gently sloped lawn descends to a paved terrace and fountain with views of the Philadelphia Waterworks and Schuylkill River.

Project Team
Structural Engineer: CVM; Landscape Architect: OLIN; Civil Engineer: Pennoni