Kise Straw and Kolodner (KSK), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Architecture Firm | KSK Architects Planners Historians, Inc. (formerly Kise Straw & Kolodner) |
| People | James Nelson Kise, AIA AICP; James B. Straw, AIA; John R. Gibbons, AIA AICP; Philip E. Scott, RA; Katherine Bottom, RA LEED AP; Suzanna Barucco, Johnette Davies, Xin Sun |
| Address | 123 South Broad St. #1270 |
| Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19109 USA | |
| Telephone | (215) 790-1050 |
| Fax | (215) 790-0215 |
| jstraw@ksk1.com | |
| Web Site | http://www.ksk1.com |
| AW Directory | ArchitectureWeek Directory Listing |
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[edit] Services
Adaptive Reuse, Addition/Alteration, Architecture, Design, Graphics, Historic Preservation, Master Planning, Planning, Renovation, Urban Design
[edit] Focus
Arts Facilities, Churches, Cultural Facilities, Libraries, Multi-Unit Residential, Museums, Single Family Residential, Theaters
[edit] Projects
Please Touch Museum at Memorial Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1600 Locust Street Shadow Study, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1900 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1901 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Amtrak's Penn Coach Yard Reuse Study, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arch Street Presbyterian Church Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Black Horse Inn Exterior Restoration and Interior Stabilization, Flourtown, Pennsylvania
Boyd Theater, Preservation Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Brinkwood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bryn Athyn Cathedral, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania
Budd Street Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Burlington Old City Hall/Lyceum Hall, Burlington City, New Jersey
The Mansion at Cabrini College, Wayne, Pennsylvania
Cambridge Plaza Redevelopment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cannelton Industries, Charleston,, West Virginia
Catch Streetscape Improvements, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cathedral Church of the Saviour Facilities Master Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cecil B. Moore Housing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cecil B. Moore Housing Sink Iron Works, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cecil B. Moore Historic Rehabilitation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia
Christian Street Gateway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Chestnut Hill West Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Church Lane/Lena Street Twin Homes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cottage Glen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Druim Moir Houses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elder's Place Apartments for the Elderly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Finlaw Building, Salem, New Jersey
Fishtown Library Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Frankford Library Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Germantown Scattered Site Historic Housing Rehabilitation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Germantown Settlement Charter School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Grace Episcopal Church, Haddonfield, New Jersey
Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Lewisburg, West Virginia
Lawrence Court (HACE), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hamill Mill Apartments for the Elderly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Holmesburg Library Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hooven Mansion/Masonic Temple, Norristown, Pennsylvania
Bancroft School/Lullworth Hall Preservation Plan and Rehabilitation, Haddonfield, New Jersey
Manheim Place Townhouses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mantua Hall Redevelopment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Martin Luther King HOPE VI Homeownership Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Metropolitan Opera House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mission Building Condominiums, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
New Jersey DOT Materials Testing Laboratory Reuse Feasibility Study, Ewing Township, New Jersey
Old Cleveland Properties, Cleveland, Ohio
Palumbo School Building Needs and Conditions Assessment Study, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Passyunk Library Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission Headquarters and Office Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Cricket Club Main Clubhouse and West Wing Addition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia School Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia University President's House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Plymouth Meeting Friend's School Pre-School Classroom in Former Carriage Shed, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania
Police Headquarter's Building, New Castle, Delaware
Race-Vine Subway Station Reconstruction, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Respite II: Residential Care Facility for Homeless Mentally Ill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ridgeway Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Royal Theatre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saint Andrew's, Mount Holly, New Jersey
Saint Martin's in the Fields Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Saint. Thomas African Episcopal Church Exterior Restoration and Interior Rehabilitation of the Rectory, Overbrook, Pennsylvania
Salem Free Public Library, Salem, New Jersey
Salem Municipal Building, Salem, New Jersey
Selinsgrove Intermediate Elementary School, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
Somerton Knoll, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The South Bar Club, Harbour Island, Bahamas
Spring Garden Revitalization, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Strawberry Mansion Homeownership Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Strawberry Square, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Suffolk Manor Rehabilitation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Suffolk Manor Capital Needs Assessment, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sussquehanna Village, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tacony Library Renovations, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://www.ksk1.com/portfolio/architecture/pdfs/TaconyLibrary.pdf
Wannamaker Shirt Factory Reuse Feasibility Study, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Warnock II, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Willingtown Plaza, Wilmington, Delaware
Wistar Institute Executive Offices, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Wister Street Townhouses, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
[edit] Firm Statement
KSK founded in 1966, has a staff of architects, planners, historians, and technical support personnel. The firm uses an interdisciplinary approach to help clients solve problems and create plans that become working realities. The firm boasts an extensive and diverse history of successful projects varying in size and complexity.
Our architectural practice focuses on historic preservation, cultural facilities, educational facilities, ecclesiastic projects, affordable housing, and streetscape design. Recent projects range from small restoration projects, such as the Salem, NJ, Municipal Building, to the $10 million historic rehabilitation and new construction of 100 homes in the Spring Garden district of Philadelphia, to large civic projects such as the $100 million Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences in Charleston, WV, and the $50m historic rehabilitation of the Memorial Hall in Philadelphia as the “Please Touch Museum.”
Planning projects completed by KSK range from neighborhood revitalization, to transit-oriented development plans, to urban design for downtown areas, to large-scale regional transportation planning, to new community plans. Orchestrating public information and community outreach is a significant aspect of our planning work. Recent projects include the preparation of a series of neighborhood plans in Philadelphia, plans for two sections of Center City Philadelphia, housing master plans for sections of North Philadelphia, and new development feasibility studies for several sites in the mid-Atlantic region, including North River Resort, a 40-acre resort complex on the North Carolina coast. Urban design projects include town center plans for Swarthmore, PA, Montclair, NJ, and Lakewood Ranch, FL. Our international practice has included several planning and urban design projects in China; a development plan for a 660 hectare resort near Tianjin, and preparation of a new town center plan for a 60 hectare site in the northeast quadrant of Beijing.
Within the Cultural Resources Group, KSK uses the skills of historians and planners to evaluate and manage cultural resources, and complete building restoration projects. Recent work includes a historic research report for New Jersey's highways, and historic rehabilitation tax credit certification for a major housing rehabilitation project in Philadelphia.
KSK’s home office is located in downtown Philadelphia on the Avenue of the Arts, which the firm planned and designed. The firm also completed the restoration and adaptive reuse of the former Ridgway Library for the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, located at the southern end of the Avenue. The finished project garnered seven design awards, including the prestigious National Honor Award of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. KSK has a joint venture office in Tianjin, China.
