Posts tagged with “Center City District”

Sister Cities Plaza: Youthful Vision of Parkway Oasis

7 October 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Maybe all the little things add up,” says architect Mark Sanderson, standing on Logan Square in front of what will be the new Sister Cities Plaza, a cafe, pavilion, and garden designed by his firm, DIGSAU. This is surely the prayer of the decade: that in an age of shrunken budgets, a city such as Philadelphia can nevertheless reassert itself on the urban scene.

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Magical Beating Heart

4 April 2011

“What do you do when someone says you can’t do anything you’ve ever done before?” she wondered.  Her answer was not to look skyward, but backwards to take cues from the city’s past.

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Snake Uprising

5 December 2007 | Philly Skyline

At the highway scale, the Cobra light is symbolic of the way we value the driver over the pedestrian. The light bathes the carriageway, but often leaves the sidewalk itself simply dark. Now imagine turning a Cobra light 180 degrees around. Magic.

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