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The new training facility for the Philadelphia Union Major League Soccer team adapts a former turbine building that was part of a now decommissioned power plant along the Delaware River in Chester, Pennsylvania. The former industrial site also features the new Talen Energy Stadium which serves as the Union’s home field. The Commodore Barry Bridge provides a contextual backdrop to the site. The contrasting characteristics of the distinctively contemporary program and the 19th century industrial setting became an essential component of the design. 
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Constructed in 1939 by the Philadelphia Energy Company as an annex to the adjacent  power plant, the structure was abandoned in 1984. Adapting the beaux arts style industrial structure to both meet the needs and embody the identity of a modern day professional sports program was the central challenge. The design approach embraced the buildings present state, celebrating its industrial heritage and preserving the intrinsic beautify of it’s gradual decay - allowing the building’s past and present to permeate every aspect of it’s new use.

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The two-story, 16,600 square foot facility houses all the players needs in one location: a team dining and kitchen area; player’s lounge, team offices, coach and player locker rooms, video screening room, weight and fitness room, equipment storage, and training.  
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Projects

PPR Residence Hall

Jefferson School

Discovery Center

Bigham Leatherberry Wise Place

Matchbox

The Study at University City

Caesar Rodney Hall - Dining & Residential

W P Point

Edible Garden and Classroom

Multi-purpose Building

Campus Bookstore & Development Office

Pavilion & Children's Discovery Garden at Sister Cities Park

Gore Capabilities Center

Base Camp Delta

150 Rouse Boulevard

Construction Training & Education Center

Library Playspace

Bus Shelters

Housing Northwest Arkansas

Arts Café Expansion & Renovation

Margaret Passmore Trickey Building

201 Rouse Boulevard

Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Yards Brewery

East Lansing 2030

The Global Learning Center

The Cove

Dogfish Head Brews and Eats

351 Rouse Boulevard

Annex Training Facility

Pool Pavilion

Shallcross Hall

Veil Garden

Rural Loft

Private Residence

Delaware History Museum

Terracurtain

Rittenhouse Hill

Corn Mobile

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