Other blogs have taken up on behalf of the functions of the libraries which are set to be closed in a couple days.  With this photographic treatment, DesignPhiladelphia wants to make sure that we think about what could be lost in the historical and design significance of the building themselves.  The Carnegie libraries, as Preservation [...]

I am absolutely loving the “Postcards from…” series that Plan Philly is doing lately.  The most recent is a “Post Card from Boston” that discusses at length the effects of that city’s $15 billion “Big Dig.”   The lessons for Philly are obvious.  We have two potential “Big Digs” of our own that, when you think [...]

Zoe Strauss is a little more widely known for her photography and is definitely a Philly person making good in the great wide art world.
Turns out she’s also a fan of postgreen and the work they’re doing with the 100K house.  Since it was on her blog that I found the video interview of postgreen’s [...]

Something about this city makes us love to put everything in rows.  We have row offices (maybe not for long), Boathouse Row, Fabric Row, Antique Row, Rittenhouse Row, the sport of rowing and, of course, the rowhome.
Plan Philly’s Ariel Ben-Amos has a great write-up of Philadelphia’s most iconic building style.  We’re a large city with [...]

Like Philebrity, I’ve become somewhat enamored with this project.  Developer postgreen is attempting to prove that green, affordable, stylish and desirable can all be found in the same house.  Their blog has done a great job of taking readers through the process from the earliest planning stages, to the land acquisition, to the trials and [...]

Highways are great… when they are empty. - Alan Tu, Managing Editor, WHYY’s It’s Our City
My colleague and cubicle neighbor said that quote as we discussed a story about John O. Norquist, president and CEO of the Congress for the New Urbanism and former mayor of Milwaukee, who, as we paraphrase, said “Mr. Rendell, [...]

Plan Philly has an extensive report about the winners of the Ed Bacon Foundation’s 3rd Annual Student Design Competition.  This year, the foundation asked contestants to consider the Ludlow neighborhood for a new plan to guide its redevelopment.
Considering its proximity to Center City, it is somewhat surprising just how much of an afterthought this neighborhood [...]

By October it seemed like the simple letter O would receive a near-unanimous response on any inkblot test: Obama. So how did the ubiquitous “O” design break through the clutter of what the logo designer Sol Sender calls “boring” presidential campaign graphics? You can hear Sender talk about that and the rest of the Obama design [...]

If you haven’t been following the continuing saga of the 100K House, the builders have been maintaining a fantastic blog that has been chronicling every major event in the development of this modern, green piece of new construction in East Kensington.  The developers’ goal is to build such a place for $100,000 and prove that [...]