Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Featuring more than 36,000 square feet of amenities, the Arthaus, designed by the American Prize for Architecture laureates Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Studio Bryan Hane for Dranoff Properties, provides a new landmark for the city’s growing arts and cultural district with its distinctive design and active base.
The massing of Arthaus is modulated into four rectangular volumes. Each of these bundled rectangles rises to a different height, creating a distinctive tower top.
Arthaus’ tower wall features a vertical expression balanced by horizontal terraces at each corner, which offer sweeping views of Philadelphia from the Delaware River to the Schuylkill River.
The project has been awarded a 2023 American Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
At the base of Arthaus, brick and terra cotta feature walls along Broad and Spruce Streets continue the scale of the street wall and relate to the material language of the neighborhood, while the tower’s high-performing glass facade is detailed with white aluminum mullions that add texture and variety.
Arthaus is comprised of 108 units that continue the sleek, modern aesthetic established in the architectural language of the building’s exterior. In plan, each residence occupies a corner of the building.
With large windows and at least two exposures, every apartment is flooded with natural light and offers panoramic views.
Each apartment features open-plan living spaces and an eight-foot-deep by sixteen-foot-wide balcony, sheltered by a windscreen, creating a private outdoor room for residents.
On the upper floors, the interlocking boxes of Arthaus’ massing rise to different heights, providing larger outdoor terraces for penthouse units.
The spacious residences are contemporary in their design, with clean lines, elegant finishes, and top-quality fixtures.
Arthaus includes more than 36,000 square feet of world-class amenities.
The building’s outdoor spaces feature a year-round rooftop greenhouse, individual planting beds, a reflecting pool, a lawn, and sundeck.
Additional amenities include a 75-foot indoor lap pool and fitness center overlooking the Kimmel Center, a library, board room, club room, dining salon, cafe with demonstration kitchen, and children’s playroom.
Project: Arthaus
Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.
General Contractor: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC.
Landscape Architects: Studio Bryan Hane
Client: Dranoff Properties, Inc.
Photographers: Elevated Angles, Kendon Photography, and Don Pearse Photographers, Inc.
