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Louis Kahn was a man of many talents: a gifted artist. A playful pianist. And in the words of Philip Johnson, one of the most influential and “beloved architects of all time.” Frank Gehry, speaking ...
A long-vacant and blighted school in West Poplar has reopened its doors with a new purpose. Spring Garden School, built between 1927-1928 at 845 N. 12th Street, celebrated its grand opening on ...
If you want to get a good grasp on what the presence of Interstate 95 means for a city like Philadelphia, it’s helpful to figure out how it got there in the first place. On one level, the Interstate ...
Yesterday’s announcement makes the casino, once dubbed the "eighth greatest wonder in the world," the fifth to close in Atlantic City since 2014. Four casinos shuttered within that year, all but ...
Residential and mixed-use projects make up 54 percent of the immense amount of construction taking place throughout Center City. According to Center City District’s recent annual report, at the end of ...
In February, Philly was one of five U.S. cities awarded a Smart Cities Council Readiness Challenge Grant. Essentially, the honor meant that Philly showed some great promise as a potential smart city, ...
Rittenhouse Square ’s long-anticipated luxury tower, The Laurel is plugging along ahead of schedule, and just sold 25 percent of its condos. The 48-story building, which only broke ground last fall, ...
New York-based artist Jake Berman wants cities to start examining ways to bring their public transit systems into the future—by looking at the past. And for Philly, that means an oft-forgotten ...
Here's a map of ninety-nine Philadelphia hotels of yore, plotted throughout the city. A handful, like the Latham and the Morris House Hotel, operate as hotels today. Most of the hotels still standing ...
279 apartments on the way in 2018Generals added that the mixed-use project will also help activate what’s long been an underutilized corridor in the Logan Square neighborhood. Already today, the area ...
Today, Wednesday June 14, is Flag Day. And while the unofficial holiday is a nod to the the Stars and Stripes flag from 1777, created right here in Philadelphia, it’s fitting that the city has also ...
The restoration process has been on full display for passersby, with the building looking different day by day. Perhaps most impressive is the reveal of the front’s facade, which had long been covered ...