URBN Center for Arts and Design - Drexel University

Description

"Behind that placid Market Street facade is one of Philadelphia's most thrilling new designs. MSR's designers . . . didn't merely rearrange the partitions. They exploded them, turning the institute's plain vanilla, open-plan floors into a mind-blowing, Escher-inspired puzzle space. . . . The contrast between the calm exterior and the dizzyingly intricate interior could not be more extreme. . . . It's a laboratory for design. . . . It's the kind of place that makes you wonder if it's too late to enroll in art school. . . . [MSR] specializes in grafting the new onto the old, repurposing buildings without obliterating signs of their previous use."