Tucked away in the quiet third-floor archives of the William Way LGBT Community Center, there’s a nearly 50-year-old leather-bound folder. The dozens of index cards inside are a window to a different ...
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 ...
The past few years have seen a development boom—albeit kind of quiet—along the banks of the Schuylkill River. From projects surrounding Bartram’s Garden, and the bike trails, to apartments going up in ...
After more than 10 years of research, the Philadelphia Archaeological Forum has launched an interactive map of the city’s unmarked cemeteries, burial grounds, and graveyards—which, apparently, number ...
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 ...
For all the fame that has followed Louis Kahn, what’s even more noteworthy is that many of the architect’s biggest hits were built within a span of just a few decades—and in some cases, four decades ...
The Eagles have called many stadiums home throughout Philly. Courtesy of Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images Before the Eagles made the Linc their main stage in 2003, the Super Bowl-bound team ...
It’s a bright and crisp Saturday morning in early December, one of those “couldn’t have asked for a better weather” kind of days. A group made up of a little more than a dozen folks ranging from ...
In Philly, real Christmas trees are only allowed in one- and two-family dwellings. Courtesy of Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock.com This time of year, there’s nothing more satisfying than seeing that ...
Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School just broke ground on a $40 million, seven-acre campus in Tioga. Renderings by Blackney Hayes Architects An abandoned warehouse and an adjacent vacant lot in North ...
Councilman Mark Squilla put it best when he tried to describe just how posh the new 500 Walnut tower really is: “What amazed me is that when you come into the building’s parking deck, it feels like ...
Folks have been settled into their new digs at the Roberts Center for Pediatric Research tower for months. But although the 21-story skyscraper was built to house the Children Hospital of Philadelphia ...