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The Firm recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary with an evening reception at Carpenters’ Hall. The Hall hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774 and was home to Ben Franklin’s Library Company and American Philosophical Society and the First and Second Banks of the United States. This august setting was balanced with a late evening tour of historic Philadelphia and the Delaware River on the Ride the Ducks amphibious vehicles. Fireworks were replaced with loud and raucous quacking.

In celebration of the anniversary, the Firm has developed a poster of the firm’s work. The message of thanks from Jamie Wyper and Terry Jacobs reads, in part, as the following:

Architecture is a profession and discipline that does not allow complete mastery, and after 25 years we find ourselves still pursuing a perfection that we may never achieve. This is not a perfection of form. Rather it is a perfection of balance, an earnest weighing of our clients’ needs and aspirations with our own self-imposed demands as designers and business owners. This has not been a question of gaining advantage; rather it has been a series of questions about what we and our clients can make together with an outcome of which both are proud. After 25 years and hundreds of projects, this challenge is as fresh as it was with our first projects in 1981.

The AstraZeneca Dining Facility Project that Jacobs/Wyper completed last year recently has won an award of Citation (recognizes projects of notable accomplishment) from the Delaware Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The 16,000 sf facility at AZ’s Newark research and manufacturing facility.