Posts tagged with “Ed Bacon”

The Future is Now

16 December 2009 | Philadelphia City Paper

On the first morning of December, milky light streaks the city and the day gets going. I’m on top of Drexel University’s new Millennium Hall, a 17-story residence designed by Erdy McHenry Architecture and structural engineer Cecil Balmond as a model integrating engineering and architecture.

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Of Weights and Visions

20 November 2008 | Philly Skyline

Sometime in the 1840s, and only in his twenties, and sporting a head of long hair and thick sideburns, and a velvet collar, the radical author George Lippard looked up at the silver sky and saw a Paris, glimmering and ghastly.

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