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Eero Saarinen’s Hill College House Fortified With $80M In Renovations
Architecture

Eero Saarinen’s Hill College House Fortified With $80M In Renovations

Ann de Forest takes us inside Hill College House, a Mid-Century take on Medieval fortification designed by Modernist master architect Eero Saarinen. The dormitory at Penn recently reopened after $80M in engineering upgrades and interior renovations

The Unbuilt Vision For A Grand Cathedral Road
Urbanism

The Unbuilt Vision For A Grand Cathedral Road

Like so many cities, Philadelphia had such grand postwar visions for urban renewal that only a fraction of them were built—thankfully. Among the unbuilt visions was a grand boulevard that would have linked the Main Line and Chestnut Hill—across new bridges over the Schuylkill and the Wissahickon. Brad Maule explores what might have been on Cathedral Road

Evolution And Influence At Penn’s Hill College House
Architecture

Evolution And Influence At Penn’s Hill College House

St. Louis got the Gateway Arch. New York got the TWA Flight Center and DC got Dulles. But Philadelphia? Eero Saarinen gave us the challenging Hill College House at Penn. Fátima Olivieri examines the influence of the modernist’s 1960 women’s dormitory, now a coed facility


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