Weiss/Manfredi

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Weiss/Manfredi breaks into the box, ingeniously chiseling out a variety of spaces for a new office building.

Although located in dense West Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania has a genuine campus—one organized around a series of green spaces and landscaped quadrangles carved out of the surrounding urban fabric.

At a time when green roofs have become a cliché and landscape a term used to describe almost anything, how do you design a building for a botanic garden without looking like a wannabe?

Architects talk a lot about “landscape” these days, using the word in so many different ways it’s often hard to know what they mean.