Schweeet. Replacing an ugly  building 4 stories tall and 12 stories wide with  a nice modern facility that is 12 stories tall and 4 stories wide.   Holy Jesus architecture was horrific back in the 60′s 70′s.

I really like the look they are going with for their new buildings. The Gym expansion kind of looks like this, but I haven’t seen the new science building up close. Can’t really out oldschool Upenn, might as well go full on spaceship. 

Beautiful building. Since tuition has gone up 300% in 15 years they could probably make it out of solid gold if they wanted to.

This should help a lot, but there are still three glaring issues in this area:

1.) the firestone tires across the street. WTF. 

2.) the PPA building catter corner to this. Too short and pedestrian unfriendly

3.) the night school building next to PPA. If we want to improve the area around 30th street we need something a lot better right there.

It makes me proud to be a LeBow alum!

They should have saved the planet

Walked by last night after teaching a class and unless the deep night was playing tricks on me, this building has just about completely come down. Pretty amazing, it was a shell last week, I guess they got everything they needed deconstructed done.

Campus has changed very dramatically over the last 4-5 years, don’t even need to go back 10 years, just the sheer volume of students walking around… really amazing. 

Should be interesting to see what they do with the recently bought land along JFK and if they’ll ever buy that Firestone – from what I hear the owner is asking for a huge $$ amount bc they know its so desired by the university.

[...] few months ago, we gave you the lowdown on the demolition of Matheson Hall on the 3200 block of Market St. and the upcoming construction of a new home for the LeBow School of [...]

[...] the fall of 2011, we first told you about the demolition of Matheson Hall on the 3200 block of Market Street, precipitated by plans for the construction of a new home for Drexel’s LeBow School of [...]