A couple of years back, Drexel University School of Law received a huge naming gift from Tom Kline - which is while we're now the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law. One element of that gift was Horace Trumbauer's landmark and imposing Ionic-style Beneficial Bank Building. The University has spent time and treasure turning it into a one-of-a-kind law school building (a supplement, not replacement, for our main facility.) It rocks. But as much as we admire it, there remained the question of whether it would be too modern or brash or different to please the architecture crowd. The first returns are in - in the form of Inga Saffron's review in the Philadelphia Inquirer - and they're very good. Saffron is no pushover so - yeah - we're pleased.
We'll have more on this building, its history, and its architect, in Issue One of our new mag, Lex, out this fall.
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