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Student Communal Spaces: LeBow College of Business

Student Communal Spaces: LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA.

Every space at LeBow College of Business works to capture the most potential for a collaborative and supportive environment for the entire school community. The Forum is an expansive double-height atrium, designed to maintain a constant flow of circulation and activity. It's a space for lectures and events as well as an informal gathering and study space. The building’s corridors are populated with informal breakout spaces outfitted with comfortable seating in fun colors where students can work or socialize outside of class.

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Student Communal Spaces: New College of Business B

Student Communal Spaces: New College of Business Building, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.

In reimagining what a 21st-century school of business could be, the Lehigh University College of Business has developed a new facility that will bring discovery-based learning environments to their undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs. A communal space for the Vistex Institute for Executive Learning & Research includes a terrace.

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Student Communal Spaces: Kenneth Kai Tai Yen Huma

Student Communal Spaces: Kenneth Kai Tai Yen Humanities Building, The Pennington School, Pennington, NJ.

The design of this new academic building at The Pennington School was conceived to challenge and redefine the versatility of traditional academic building design in a way that would better support Pennington’s contemporary school pedagogies and interactive student experience. Throughout the building, the theme continues: every space works to capture the most potential for collegiality, student-teacher interaction, and cross-pollination between disciplines, resulting in a collaborative and supportive environment for the entire school community.

Photographs by @jeffreytotaro

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Student Communal Spaces: Greystock Hall, Church Fa

Student Communal Spaces: Greystock Hall, Church Farm School, Exton, PA.

A new terrace with outdoor seating overlooks the rolling hills surrounding the campus of Church Farm School.

Photographs by @jeffreytotaro

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Student Communal Spaces: Biotech Commons, Univers

Student Communal Spaces: Biotech Commons, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

The renovation rethinks what a university library can be in an era when book reference and individual research have given way to digital learning, hands-on making, and transdisciplinary exploration. Gone are the carrels and the stacks, replaced with tech-integrated conference spaces, collaboration classrooms with moveable furniture and boards, and a digital fabrication lab equipped with modeling tools and 3D printers.

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Student Communal Spaces: Barn, Millbrook School,

Student Communal Spaces: Barn, Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY.

Millbrook School wanted a student center with a design that was open, attractive, subtly monitored with an appropriate mix of functions: a place that felt safe and owned by all the students. Removing a section of the second floor connected the interior spaces visually and spatially. The snack bar seating area is open to the game/lounge area on the second floor with soaring ceilings and the hominess of the exposed heavy timbers.

Photographs by @jeffreytotaro

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

This watercolor rendering of Casertano Dining Hall at Millbrook School, by our frequent collaborator Jeff Stikeman @jeffstikeman_architecturalart), helped build enthusiasm for the project by illustrating the architectural vision.

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

This atmospheric watercolor by collaborator Richard Sneary (@richardsneary) shows the proposed renovation of a historic campus building to serve as the official residence for the university president.

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

Philadelphia residents might recognize this masterful watercolor by Cameron Mactavish which depicts the grand façade of 833 Chestnut Street, originally built in 1925.

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

Founding partner emeritus Cameron Mactavish produced this watercolor in 1993 to illustrate our concept for a new country estate in Chester County.

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

Together with Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, we worked through a series of options to create a contextually sensitive addition that would connect two historic campus buildings. The final approach combines both traditional and contemporary elements to create architecture with a true sense of place.

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

This watercolor of the historic Westphal Gallery at Drexel University shows the restored laylight, which helps bring indirect natural light into the space, as well as the new vivid red walls inspired by paint analysis of the original finishes.

Photo: Tom Bernard

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

This watercolor by Jeff Stikeman (@jeffstikeman_architecturalart) helped illustrate some of the proposed interior spaces of a new independent school athletic center, including the views over the campus playing fields.

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

As part of a targeted planning process at Saint Joseph’s University, we developed the conceptual design for an expansion of their Athletics Complex which is currently underway. Large windows looking out over a new terrace will help connect the Athletics Complex facilities with Sweeney Field beyond.

Watercolor by Jeff Stikeman (@jeffstikeman_architecturalart)

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We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by shar

We’re celebrating World Watercolor Month by sharing details about our process and some of our favorite watercolors from the VMA archive.

This watercolor of the Peck Alumni Center at Drexel University, originally built in 1876 as the Centennial Bank, is consistently named a staff favorite for the way it captures the detailed brickwork originally designed by renowned architect Frank Furness.

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Residences: Mount Airy Estate, Philadelphia, PA

The owners of this historic Mellor, Meigs & Howe house in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia acquired neighboring parcels of land over time with the goal of transforming this open space into their ideal retreat. VMA worked with the owner and a team of consultants to design a series of sweeping terraces, easing the change in grade, terminating in a generous pool seemingly dropping off into the distance beyond.

Interior Design completed in association with Executive Interiors. Site landscaping and hardscaping by Gilmore & Associates.

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Residences: Schuylkill Valley House, Gladwyne, PA

Residences: Schuylkill Valley House, Gladwyne, PA

When they began thinking about the design of their new home, our clients took inspiration from their stunning seven-acre site in the Philadelphia suburbs that offered long views across the Schuylkill valley on a secluded private road. Our design response was to site the new house oriented towards the views and the sun, with the massing framing a swooping pool with a long porch roof.

Photograph by @jeffreytotaro

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Residences: Arts and Crafts Cottage Renovation, PA

Residences: Arts and Crafts Cottage Renovation, PA.

Our clients won the bid for this historic house in Swarthmore by writing the owners a poem about what the place would mean to them and how much they would love it. We worked closely to improve the beautiful Arts and Crafts house, with the clients collecting furniture and fabrics appropriate to it.

Photograph by Catherine Tigue

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Residences: Society Hill Townhouse Expansion

Working within a registered historic district, the heavily-altered street facades were meticulously reconstructed to recapture their original elegance while subtly indicating their combined nature inside.

In collaboration with Fury Design and Victoria Steiger
Photograph by Don Pearse

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Athletic Centers: Mills Athletic Center, Millbrook

Athletic Centers: Mills Athletic Center, Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY.

The new Mills Racquet Center at Millbrook School combines squash, tennis and a platform tennis court. Their total number of courts were doubled and the viewing balcony was extended. The communal area was designed carefully to be shaded along with the courts location to protect from glare during play. Specialty glass, interior shades, and exterior sunshades were all used to protect the space. The large gathering space offers expansive views south towards the tennis courts and playing fields, creating an important visual connection.

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Athletic Centers: Church Farm Gym Feasibility Stud

Athletic Centers: Church Farm Gym Feasibility Study, Church Farm School, Exton, PA.

Church Farm School has immense pride in its student athletes. A renovation of their existing gym has improved the experience for players and spectators alike through new finishes, improved lighting, and a more welcoming entry. The school's signature red was incorporated throughout.

Photograph by @jeffreytotaro

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Athletic Centers: Sipprelle Field House, St. Andre

Athletic Centers: Sipprelle Field House, St. Andrew's School, Middletown, DE.

The LEED Gold Certified field house at St. Andrew's School has a three-court gymnasium that is sunk fifteen feet in the ground, where it is passively conditioned by the surrounding earth. A raised running track, at level with the playing fields outside, offers phenomenal views.

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Athletic Centers: Athletic Center, St. Joseph's Un

Athletic Centers: Athletic Center, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA.

As executive architect for the first wave of projects to emerge from SJU's recent campus plan, we developed the conceptual design behind the forthcoming improvements to Hagan Arena. Proposed amenities included an indoor turf field to support a variety of sports.

Illustration by @jeffstikeman_architecturalart

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Athletic Centers: Philadelphia Youth Basketball C

Athletic Centers: Philadelphia Youth Basketball Center, Alan Horowitz 'Sixth Man' Center, Philadelphia, PA.

The Philadelphia Youth Basketball Center is important in how it connects youths through basketball as well as help build life skills. This center needed a new home in order to support their wide range of programs. After years spent studying options and developing concepts for different sites, we have been able to bring their vision to life. With basketball at its core, the center also has classrooms, spaces equipped to foster civic dialogue, and on-site financial planning services. The new design will allow PYB to serve seven times as many young people as they are now along with new employment opportunities to surrounding residents.

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