Chinatown Community Center (Crane Center)
The Crane is a landmark identifying Chinatown North as a vital part of the established Chinatown neighborhood in Philadelphia. Responding to Chinatown’s traditional mix of ground floor retail with other uses above street level, the Chinatown Community Center is a new kind of hybrid facility-mixing commercial, residential, and public recreationuses in one place.
Cultural education and performance programs co-exist within a double size gymnasium/banquet hall and a floor of commercial tenant offices.
The perspective and space plans explore the potential of this site to be a new anchor attracting and promoting future development to Chinatown North.