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Grant High School Marching Band

Rancho San Antonio

IDEAL CITIES - Contextualism is a given as far as we are concerned, both as service to the community but also as a boost to the bottom line via better acceptance by all stakeholders. We also were trained in the tradition of the great American architect Eero Saarinen, for whom every project was a fresh start, and not the imposition of a pre existing design sensibility. So Symphony House spoke to the early twentieth century high rise tradition in Philadelphia with its historist approach, while 3737 Chestnut, resolutely modern, was contextual with regard to the adjacent International House and its plaza (now filled, unfortunately). One Theater Square in Newark, originally intended to be 42 stories (then the tallest proposed building in NJ), was always to respond to NJPAC across the plaza. As realized at 22 stories, we think the results still fulfill the original goal.

IDEAL CITIES - Contextualism is a given as far as we are concerned, both as service to the community but also as a boost to the bottom line via better acceptance by all stakeholders. We also were trained in the tradition of the great American architect Eero Saarinen, for whom every project was a fresh start, and not the imposition of a pre existing design sensibility. So Symphony House spoke to the early twentieth century high rise tradition in Philadelphia with its historist approach, while 3737 Chestnut, resolutely modern, was contextual with regard to the adjacent International House and its plaza (now filled, unfortunately). One Theater Square in Newark, originally intended to be 42 stories (then the tallest proposed building in NJ), was always to respond to NJPAC across the plaza. As realized at 22 stories, we think the results still fulfill the original goal.