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Originally Posted by Insoluble
Hey summersm, do you know of any rendering for this thing? Hopefully they will obscure the awful Pearlman Center building with something nicer.
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What, you're not into the suburban-office-park look?
I remember being at a Penn alumni event when Amy Gutmann was crowing over a rendering of the soon-to-be-built Perelman Center--including the fact that it had been designed by the wonderful Rafael Vinoly of Kimmel Center fame--and thinking to myself, "am I the only one here who thinks this looks like it belongs somewhere in Blue Bell or Plymouth Meeting, and NOT on an urban Ivy League campus?"
Sometimes I get quite annoyed at the mediocrity of some of the architecture Penn has built on its campus over the past 50-60 years, especially given its eminent Architecture program with a tradition of world-class faculty and alums (e.g., Paul Philippe Cret, Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, etc.).