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Architect Jeanne Gang on using design to strengthen community
Jeanne Gang is a rare bird among architects. Her 20-year old Chicago-based firm, Studio Gang, has cut a bold path, creating…
See your #PHLandmarks
In a city of 500,000 buildings, which ones sing to you? This fall we asked you to share with us the…
What should a 21st century Philly rowhouse be? Emerging designers answer
Last Thursday PlanPhilly and the Design Advocacy Group presented our take on this year’s DesignPhiladelphia theme – Home – with an…
What's your local landmark?
In a city of half a million buildings, what’s your local landmark? We all have places that matter to us. This…
History grafted into contemporary design at Penn’s new Perry World House
These days Penn’s campus is being remade in a new era of major construction projects, each with robust enough budgets to…
Building Stories: President's House
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: Guild House
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: Hopkinson House
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: United Way Building
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Bjarke Ingels on building at the Navy Yard, design dreams
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels is having a moment. His 11-year-old firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is winning work worldwide, and acclaim…
Building Stories: The Roundhouse
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: The Granary
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: the rowhouse
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: Robert N.C. Nix Federal Building and William Penn Annex Post Office
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Building Stories: Skirkanich Hall
For our spring series Building Stories, we're bringing you design postcards from around the city. We're asking Philadelphia architects to take us…
Venturi's Mother's House faces delicate transition
There are few buildings in Philadelphia that changed the landscape of American architecture. The Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill is…
Lord Norman Foster on urban infrastructure, technology, and design
Pritzker prize-winning architect Lord Norman Foster delivered his version of design theater-in-the-round at the rotunda auditorium in Penn’s Anthropology Museum on…
Frank Gehry's "quiet intervention" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Renowned architect Frank Gehry was hired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2006 to develop a master plan for the…
Where a brick is more than a brick
The old Independence Visitor Center will soon be demolished to clear the southeast corner of 3rd and Chestnut to make way…
Brought to Light: Celebrating Louis Kahn's residential designs
Each year the University of Pennsylvania’s Architectural Archives hosts Kahn Day to honor the former Penn professor and world-renowned architect, Louis…
