The six-story innovation hub, with its six-story “makerspace facility,” replaces the James Building, which was built in 1920.

Nicholas L. Gianopulos, who helped found Philadelphia-based Keast & Hood in 1953, died on July 21. He was 93. 

Just as the Broadway hit “Hamilton” packs the epic biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton into a three-hour rap opera, the $120-million Museum of the American Revolution under construction in Philadelphia ambitiously jams the eight-year war into a tight urban site.