ARCHITECTURE & FACILITIES

Dormitories at the U. of Pennsylvania Are Restored to Their Modernist Roots

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Philadelphia

The University of Pennsylvania is nearing the end of a multiyear effort to update a trio of Modernist high-rises from the early 1970s that were once hailed as "marvelously strong buildings" and later derided as "East German" and "Soviet."

The buildings are identical...

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