Urban Outfitters Headquarters - Exterior

Built: 2005-2011

Respect for rich histories of the Navy Yard guides the design of a refashioned campus of creativity for retailer Urban Outfitters (URBN). An industrial strength landscape armature structures the retrofit of massive manufacturing buildings into design studios and corporate offices, forming URBN's campus, and community, of creativity. Rebranded demolition debris is lovingly converted into patterns of porous pavement. Tapestries of hedgerows and drifts of wild wooly grasses and wildflowers emulate URBN's sensibility for the next evolution of this productive landscape. On the civic axis to the Delaware River, URBN's private venture becomes an extension of the public realm of Philadelphia and a poster child for future industrial redevelopment.