Durability and style for a rec center
24 February 2012 | Philadelphia Inquirer
To get to the activity building at Pleasant Playground in East Mount Airy, invisible from the street, you have to trust your instincts.
Posts tagged with “Architecture”
Navy Yard developing as the booming city by the sea
10 February 2012 | Philadelphia Inquirer
It’s like a scene from an experimental Czech novel: Pass through a secret door and there’s a ghost street grid, handsome buildings from a grand era just out of reach, empty warehouses as big as tankers, and ships as grand as castles.
Germantown’s Obvious, Yet Elusive, Potential
9 December 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
Germantown’s streetscape is as exuberant and variegated as any city district in America, its organic urban form the antithesis of Center City’s oppressively rational grid. And today, like Town Hall, it is stuck, seemingly too expensive to fix, its potential obvious and yet painfully elusive.
The Literal City
28 November 2011 | Hidden City Daily
A simplistic interpretation of history is dumbing down our architecture and making Philadelphia seem a whole lot less interesting than it really is.
Shaping a Revolutionary Space
25 November 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer
The new Museum of the American Revolution, to be built at Third and Chestnut, must be relevant to past, present, and future.