Leong Leong has designed Ray Philly in Pennsylvania, United States.

Ray Philly is the inaugural location for Ray, a development brand founded by Dasha Zhukova focused on making art and design a part of everyday life through ground-up apartment buildings for the creative community.

Ray Philly's 9,570-square-metre building features 110 apartments, six artist studios, amenities geared toward creative living, and public spaces for art-related programming.

The materiality of the building's facades references the neighboring historic industrial buildings of the Old Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia.

Its unique hand-split brick facade is a gesture that is both contextual and contemporary through its attention to craft.

This project has been longlisted in the mixed-use project category of Dezeen Awards 2024.

Studio: Leong Leong
Project: Ray Philly
Credits: Harman Deutsch Ohler Architecture, Grace Fuller Design, The HOW Group, Glen-Gery, Scholtz, DKI and Dorothy Consulting