APPC Building Project : Progress on new APPC building project

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Video by Waldo Aguirre

This blog tracked the construction progress of the Annenberg Public Policy Center's new on-campus building. The building is a gift of the Annenberg Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands, which have contributed a total of $41.5 million to the project, including $6 million earmarked for perpetual maintenance. Occupancy of the building, designed by noted Tokyo architect Fumihiko Maki, was begun in August 2009.

Progress on new APPC building project

Photo by Allan Hurt, Hunter Roberts Construction Group

By the end of the day Wednesday (July 31, 2007), the former Hillel House at 202 S. 36th Street had been largely leveled to make way for the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building on the University of Pennsylvania campus. Occupancy of the new building is scheduled for the fall of 2008.

The project is the latest transformation of this portion of the campus. To see how the view has changed over the past four decades, photos from the Saalbach Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Archives can be viewed here http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upx/saalbachannbrg.html.

Note the “new” AnnenbergSchool for Communication building.

Published Thursday, August 02, 2007 3:44 PM by kriley@appc