Project Type: Plaza

Lenfest Plaza at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

A wide pedestrian walkway with curved wooden benches running alongside a historic red brick facade.

Lenfest Plaza at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts unifies art and people within a civic environment in downtown Philadelphia. The plaza links together the Academy’s facilities, including the newly refurbished Hamilton Building and the historic Furness-Hewitt Building. Created by closing a 220-foot length of Cherry Street, the plaza serves as a threshold for […]

University of Pennsylvania Weitzman Plaza

A ground-level perspective of the tiered wooden seating area filled with students eating and talking. The scene is framed by leafy green trees and the ornate red brick and terra cotta architecture of the campus.

The new Stuart Weitzman Plaza, home to the school’s graduation ceremony and other events, reinvigorates the setting of the School of Design to play a unique role in the life of the school and campus. Reshaping space at this key nexus of campus pedestrian circulation brings together the Fisher Fine Arts Library, the Graduate Fine […]

Comcast Center Plaza

Eye-level view of a landscaped walkway with built-in stone benches, lush ornamental grasses, and leafy green trees set against city buildings.

OLIN was the landscape architect for Comcast’s main headquarters in the heart of Philadelphia’s financial district—the tallest skyscraper in the city at the time of its completion. The stateliness and elegance of this impressive, LEED-certified, 56-story office tower are carried through to OLIN’s plaza at the structure’s base. However, the plaza is more than merely […]