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Repurposing a vacant office building into a private K-12 school turned a drab commercial space into what the project team says will be a dynamic learning space for more than 1,000 students.

Designed to promote transparent, collaborative and experimental learning, the Horace Mann Elementary School has communal spaces—such as an art room, science gallery and multipurpose room—that are visible from the street and hallways.

Completed in nine months, the Sands Capital project was a custom build-out of the top four floors of a 31-story building and construction of a new penthouse and roof deck. 

The construction team was tasked with fitting out 14 floors of a new 21-story tower for Exelon Corp., while a separate team, led by Armada Hoffler, was performing base building work.

The 150,000-sq-ft, three-story center features two towers joined by a central atrium. 

The first building on the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s new 1.4-million-sq-ft Schuylkill Avenue campus, the 21-story Roberts Center for Pediatric Research, includes approximately 470,000 sq ft of research space and administrative offices.

Almost 100 years after it opened, the historic Recreation Pier in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood was purchased in 2014 with the goal of restoring the head house and pier and converting it into a luxury hotel.

New College House is the first “purpose-built” college house on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus and its first new student-housing building in more than 40 years.