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This 75-story supertall would have risen 1,050 feet above City Hall in the space now occupied by the Residences at The Ritz-Carlton. Rumor has it that Comcast was considering this proposal for their ...
How I-95 broke Philly’s waterfront (and what the city is doing to fix it) Philly is dreaming big and small along the Delaware River after decades of damage caused by one highway ...
Last month for an open thread discussion we posed the question: What's the ugliest building in Philadelphia? Here are the 15 buildings that readers griped about the most.
What was once thought of a pipe dream is set to become reality: The state of Pennsylvania, City of Philadelphia, and the William Penn Foundation have committed to raising the last $10 million needed ...
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 ...
Inside the Restoration of a Frank Lloyd Wright Home A local architect just finished the largest restoration project on the J.A. Sweeton Residence in Cherry Hill to date. And it was no easy feat.
Yeah, we said it. The new, 1.25-acre Cira Green in University City is pretty awesome. The city's first elevated park opened to the public today and sits on top of the parking garage of Cira Centre ...
If you're just jumping on the Pokemon Go bandwagon, consider this map your starting point. Here, Curbed Philly has marked many of the best places in the city to catch a rare Pokemon.
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 ...
Fairmount Park is the Goliath of urban parks. The entire system, which includes 63 parks, clocks in at 9,200 acres, making it the largest urban park in the nation. Seriously: It's five times bigger ...
There’s so much to see and do in Philly, but we get it: Sometimes you just need to get away. Good thing there are plenty of charming small towns scattered within two hours of the city that make for ...
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 ...
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