PORT

Year Established: 2012

PORT is a public realm focused urban design and landscape architecture practice. With offices in Philadelphia and Chicago, we are a design-forward firm comprising architects, landscape architects, urban designers, and planners. Notably, the vast majority of our team has backgrounds in multiple design disciplines, allowing us to approach our work in what we believe is a unique and compelling way. Specifically, we engage our projects without disciplinary preconceptions, instead mining the realities of a project site, community, and client in order to elaborate responses that are both unapologetically forward looking and emphatically of the place.

Types of Work

• Landscape Architecture
• Urban Design
• Small Scale Architecture

Firm Personnel
Staff: 17
Registered Architects: 4
Registered Landscape Architects: 2

Projects
Lakefront North Residential Public Realm (Howard Hughes Corporation); Northern Liberties 2nd Street Vision Plan w/ KieranTimberlake (Northern Liberties Business Improvement District); Weitzman Hall Renovation and Addition (University of Pennsylvania/KieranTimberlake); Invest S/W Public Art Vision Plan (Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events); AKA Hotel Alexandria (AKA Hotels); Cobbs Creek Nature Playground (City of Philadelphia Rebuild Initiative); Tennessee Riverfront Connectivity Plan — Knoxville (Knoxville Community Development Corporation); Stony Island Corridor Vision Plan (Chicago Department of Planning & Development); Waterside Park Master Plan (North Franklin Township/PA DCNR); Charlestown/Sullivan Square Redevelopment (RISE/TRAX); Frankford Avenue Connector (Delaware River Waterfront Corporation); Lakeview Low-Line (The Lakeview Chamber of Commerce); Main Avenue Bridge Underpass (The Downtown Cleveland Alliance); Lincoln Avenue Under L (The Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce); Urban Wilderness Gateway Park (City of Knoxville, TN); Augusta Quarry w/ Sanders Pace Architecture (The Aslan Foundation / City of Knoxville, TN); 8th Street Gateway Park (Bentonville Parks and Recreation & Walton Family Foundation Design Excellence Program)

Awards
Expo Idaho Park Design Competition (Ada County); J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize (Exhibit Columbus); 2020 Emerging Voices (Architectural League of New York); 2015, 2017, 2019 Invited Participant (Chicago Architecture Biennial); Over 25 Local, State, and Regional AIA, ASLA, and ULI awards of honor or merit

Contacts

• Marketing/Business Development: Lauren McPhillips
• Principals: Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell