Philadelphia Navy Yards / James Corner Field Operations

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• Architects

  James Corner Field Operations

• Location

  Philadelphia Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA, United States

• Design Director

  James Corner, RLA, Founding Partner

• Project Year

  2015

• Photographs

  Halkin Mason Photography

• Category

  Urban Design

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• Project Manager

  Sarah Weidner Astheimer, Senior Associate

• Project Designers

  Matt Grunbaum, Associate, Kimberly Cooper, Associate, Sanjukta Sen

• Client

  Liberty Property Trust

• Budget

  $7.4 million

• Size

  5 acres
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Text description provided by the architects. Field Operations has designed the 5-acre Central Green at the heart of the Philadelphia Navy Yard Corporate Center. The site was historically marked by wetlands, meadows, and bird habitat and is growing into Philadelphia’s most innovative and progressive corporate neighborhood.

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The design unites the cutting edge urban potential of the site with its native habitat, resulting in a new type of environment that is sustainable, green, and natural as well as social, active, and urban. A 20-ft wide Social Track organizes the site’s circulation and frames a unique, immersive interior park featuring flowering meadows, a hammock grove, an outdoor amphitheater, bocce courts, and fitness stations.

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