KD2 Architects

If you're not connected with us on insta as well, you're formally invited! We peel back the wallpaper a little more over there. 🙃

KD2 Architects on Instagram: "Dressed and ready for its Grand Opening.💥 We’re happy to have played a role in bringing this gorgeous new @lambophilly showroom and service center to Philadelphia. Thank you @rdsautogroup for once again trusting us. 36 Likes, 4 Comments - KD2 Architects () on Instagram: "Dressed and ready for its Grand Opening.💥 We’re happy to have played a role in bringing thi..."

As the MLB season wraps up this week we’re looking back at our work with Somerset Patriots Baseball this past off-season. Specifically this new 4,500 SF batting cage. Pics start with the finished product, and build in reverse.

And as we type, we’re in the design phase for more upgrades that’ll be ready for the first pitch next season! ⚾

Demolitions are always a lesson in history, but this one gives us pause.

Over 120 years of life in this wall. These bricks were most likely brought to the site by horse and buggy, and the extensive labor required for the lath and plaster walls would not be relieved by the invention of drywall for another 50 years.

This house was designed and built by tradesmen generations before us. People who had skills and talents and pride in their craft, just as we have today. They most likely had debates about the best way to do each detail, had setbacks and were forced to make unexpected changes on the fly, talked and joked as they worked, just as we do today.

What we don’t know was whether they ever foresaw the time, far in the future, when a demo crew would have to remove what they worked so hard to build. Could they have imagined that when the time came, professionals in 2021 would marvel at the quality of their craftsmanship? Did they know one day it would show up on Facebook? 😉

It's not every day our work gives us the humbling opportunity to think about those who stood on this very site long before us, designing and building with a vision for the future, just as we’re doing now.