Comcast Center Plaza | OLIN
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This impressive, LEED-certified, fifty-six-story office tower is Philadelphia?s newest and tallest. The Comcast Center?s stateliness and elegance are carried through to OLIN?s plaza at its base. However, the plaza is more than merely a suitable platform for the building?it is a vibrant, well-used, civic space, wholly connected to the city. It serves as a new destination for residents and workers, and as a principal entry to the regional rail lines, markets, and food court located beneath the site. The plaza elements are conceived as a series of vertical and horizontal layers.
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L.F. Driscoll Company, Lynch & Associates Ltd., Nancy Rosen, Parker Interior Plantscape, Paul H. Yeomans, Pennoni Associates, Quentin Thomas Associates, Thornton Tomasetti Group, Two Twelve Associates, WET Design
Along with its most civic-facing edge, a sheared aerial hedge defines the plaza and filters the noise and activity of bustling John F. Kennedy Boulevard. On the plaza, a plinth supports a café servery housed in a distinctive, illuminated glass box slipped beneath a sculptural trellis of dichroic glass, steel, and vines.
A dynamic fountain provides a linear veil between the plinth and the main plaza. The plaza is paved in a pattern of granite bands that reinforces the structural grid of the tower. To connect the exterior to the interior both visually and physically, the paving extends into the building?s winter...
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