Keast & Hood

We are moving from our Old City office at 4th and Market Streets to Center City! Please note our new address, effective March 1st, 2021: 1635 Market Street, Suite 1705 Philadelphia, PA 19103 We look forward to welcoming clients and colleagues into our new space once it is safe to do so.

We're excited for the New Year but also wanted to take a moment to reflect on the past twelve months. Take a look back with us... #happyholidays !

Thank you to everyone that joined us last night as part of the @aiaphiladelphia Annual Design Awards and our trivia networking lounge before the ceremony. We had a great time co-hosting with our colleagues, @voithmactavish! We would like to congratulate @voithmactavish on their Design Award for Silverman Hall at @uofpenn! And congratulations to David Lemons of @bba_engineers on winning the trivia grand prize! He nailed the bonus question, What is the total SF of the mural, The Dream Garden, featured in Unbreakable?

We're honored to support @aiaphiladelphia and look forward to the Annual Design Awards Celebration this Thursday! Don't miss our Trivia Lounge with @voithmactavish before the program begins!

Last week Historic Christ Church and Burial Ground turned 325 years old!! Happy Birthday to one of our favorite Historic Sites! We thought it would be a great time to share a recent video where we reflect on our experience at the Church and more specifically, within its historic spire.

Excited to see St. Andrew’s School of Delaware Amos Hall featured in Education Snapshots!

We are excited to announce that three projects we provided structural engineering on are finalists for a 2020 AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Design Award! The University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School, Silverman Hall Classrooms by Voith & Mactavish Architects LLP, Arrupe Hall at St. Joseph’s University by Moto Designshop, and the University of Pennsylvania Richards Medical Research Laboratory by Atkin Olshin Schade Architects are all finalists. Tune in to AIA P...ennsylvania Architectural Excellence Awards Broadcast on Thursday, November 19th at 8pm EST to celebrate the strength and resilience of Pennsylvania’s design and construction industry and for the big reveal to see if our partners on these three projects are honored with one of the 18 awards for architectural excellence. Check out the 2020 AIA Pennsylvania Architectural Excellence Design & COTE Awards submissions gallery and tune in to the broadcast on November 19 for the awards reveal: https://aiapa.info/3k0Wbs2

Test your KH project identification skills! We played this trivia game as part of our DesignPhiladelphia Open House on Wednesday. Let us know how you do!

In case you missed our Open House last night as part of DesignPhiladelphia, catch it here!

TOMORROW! Join us for our Open House as part of Design Philadelphia! We'll be showing some cool things, hosting some architectural trivia, and giving away some fun prizes - hope to see you there!

We're excited to participate in DesignPhiladelphia again this year! While we're bummed that we are not creating another installation at Cherry Street Pier, we look forward to virtually welcoming you into our office for our Open House on Wednesday, October 14th!

Don't miss AIA Philadelphia's Forum on Architecture + Design this week! Register today: https://www.bigmarker.com//forum-on-architec/series_summit

Join us Wednesday, October 7th for a presentation on the design of monumental stairs as part of AIA Philadelphia's Forum on Architecture + Design! https://www.bigmarker.com//Structural-Challenges-and-Strat

An iconic project at the University of Pennsylvania that we are thrilled to support!

Excited to announce Fashion District Philadelphia took home an Outstanding Project Award last night at the Annual DVASE (Delaware Valley Assoc of Structural Engineers) Awards! Congrats to the entire project team, especially our client JPRA Architects!

The new St. Rita Place and Cascia Center will provide affordable housing for independent seniors and 7,500 sq. ft. of multi-purpose community space on South Broad Street in Philadelphia. The project recently broke ground earlier this month. We are excited to support Cecil Baker + Partners as part of the design team for this new mixed-use development.

We are donating our set of Venturi’s Mother’s House drawings to @designyardsale to support the important work of @bailproject and @colloqate Please visit their page and check out all the other amazing items available to purchase or bid on. 100% of the net proceeds collected will go towards funding organizations engaged in dismantling racism.

Brinker Lofts in Bethlehem is a 2020 PA Historic Preservation Award recipient! Learn more about its initial use below... #regram @pres_pa We are pleased to announce the 2020 Construction Project Award recipients of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards, including this project in the Rehabilitation category. The former Lehigh Valley Cold Storage Company in Bethlehem (Northampton County) was a windowless brick 1893 Romanesque Revival style building with limited possib...ilities for reuse. The windows in this building are recessed blind openings. While at first glance it appears the brick was a later infill of a prior window opening, it is not. Removing the brick, or opening the window, and installing functioning windows was not an option and would not meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards. An innovative solution that introduced 67 new windows facing the interior courtyard has transformed Brinker Lofts into 30 apartments with retained industrial charm creating a cool place to live. We are pleased to announce the 2020 Construction Project Award recipients of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Awards, including this project in the Residential/Small Project category. See more

Happy International Museum Day! So many of our favorite institutional and cultural clients are creatively sharing their collections with the public while physically closed. Make sure you check out the Penn Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Franklin Institute, Museum of the American Revolution, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia via their online resources and collections! #MuseumDay

KH on the move! We had a great time participating in @rtphiladelphia’s virtual #RuntoRebuild 5k! We hit the streets and crossed the finish line separate but together. @rtphiladelphia repairs homes, revitalizes communities, and rebuilds lives. Their vision is safe homes and communities for every person. #R2RX #r2rvirtual @ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

I enjoy working on historic structures as it connects me to the past, I’ll never forget going into the tower at Christ Church and seeing some of the names and dates of the people that have been there before me, as far back as 1838. It is always interesting to see how buildings were engineered in previous eras, how construction materials and techniques have changed and developed over time no two historic structures are ever the same! We are pleased to announce that our Director of Historic Preservation, Brian Wentz, CDT, PE, was recently acknowledged by The Association for Preservation Technology International (APT) as an APT Recognized Professional! #historicpreservation #preservationmonth #architecture #preservation #restoration @ Keast & Hood

Happy Preservation Month! We had the pleasure of revisiting one of our old friends, Lucy the Elephant, a National Landmark built in 1881. We first worked on Lucy in 2007 and were back again for an assessment to make sure this iconic structure continues to greet shore visitors well into the future. #preservationmonth #nationalhistoriclandmark @ Lucy the Elephant