“The new design brings out the best of the old and highlights the historic features in ways that might have been less successful with a more traditional response. . . . The tension between old and new, tactile and smooth, light and dark, indoor and out, all of this while holding in character with the corporate image—genius.”
—AIA National Honor Awards Jury

Housed in Philadelphia’s historic Navy Yard, this multi-phased corporate campus provides new design studios and office space for the company’s distinctive retail brands, while celebrating the idiosyncratic remnants of 125 years of shipbuilding. The design embraces both the history of the Navy Yard and Urban Outfitters’ modern culture by layering old and new.