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A catalyst for urban redevelopment of a dormant historic site

Housed in Philadelphia’s historic Navy Yard, this multi-phased corporate campus provides new design studios and office space for the company’s distinctive retail brands, while celebrating the idiosyncratic remnants of 125 years of shipbuilding. Embracing both the history of the Navy Yard and URBN’s modern culture by layering old and new, the design team found inspiration in the factory characteristics of the buildings—industrial materiality, open volumes, and access to daylight—to repurpose the buildings’ major function from production to creativity. The synthesis of four measures—art, culture, economy, and environment—results in the transformation from a production-based yard to a creativity-based campus.

Awards

AIA Architecture Award


AIA Minnesota Honor Award


Business Week/Architectural Record Good Design is Good Business Award


 

National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award


Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Award


Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia Achievement Award


Urban Land Institute Global Award for Excellence


Client

URBN

Location

Philadelphia, PA

Project Type

Workplace

Size

463,068 SF for all four phases

Role

Architect | Interior Designer

Status

Complete

“This is a great example of a reuse project. The new design brings out the best of the old and highlights the historic features in ways that might have been less successful with a more traditional response. The tension between old and new, tactile and smooth, light and dark, indoor and out, all of this while holding in character with the corporate image—genius.”

—National AIA Architecture Awards Jury