Park? Let’s! Photos from Park(ing) Day 2017
Today is Park(ing) Day, an annual, nationwide event where on-street parking spots are turned into pop-up parklets. Started in San Francisco in 2005, Park(ing) Day is celebrating it’s 10th year in Philadelphia. Park(ing) Day encourages the public to reconsider how society uses public space and offers architects, designers, and community organizations a chance to show off their creative talents and pilot ideas for permanent streetscape improvements.
Below is a crowd-sourced collection of just some the hundreds of installations in and around Philadelphia today. Want to show off a great parklet? E-mail photos to PlanPhilly Interim Managing Editor Jim Saksa at JSaksa@whyy.org. Please include the photographer’s name, the parklet’s location, and the group or person who built it.
PlanPhilly will update this page throughout the day, so check back. You can also follow the fun on Twitter.
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Crane your neck and check out the origami at SMP Architect’s Park(ing) Day installation at 16th and Chestnut (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Park(ing) Day brought a different kind of crane to Center City, courtesy of SMP Architect’s installation at 16th and Chestnut (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Fishtown Neighbors, Greensgrow, and Johnny Brenda’s joined forces at Belgrade and Frankford Ave. to create a pop-up plaza. (Jon Geeting) -
Cloud Gehshan Placemaking’s Where are you from? at Market and 4th on Park(ing) Day 2017 (Rebecca Smith/WHYY) -
Matt Cavelier, Joe Thomas and Ian Goldberg setting up Cloud Gehshan Placemaking’s Where are you from? at Market and 4th on Park(ing) Day 2017 (Rebecca Smith/WHYY) -
Joe Thomas interacts with Cloud Gehshan Placemaking’s Where are you from? at Market and 4th on Park(ing) Day 2017 (Rebecca Smith/WHYY) -
The PPA gets in on Park(ing) Day 2017 action at 7th and Ranstead (Laura Benshoff/WHYY) -
Fishtown Neighbors, Greensgrow, and Johnny Brenda’s have it made in the shade at Belgrade and Frankford Ave. (Jon Geeting) -
Shot from above of pop-up plaza at Belgrade and Frankford Ave. courtesy of Fishtown Neighbors, Greensgrow and Johnny Brenda’s (Jon Geeting) -
Fishtown Neighbors, Greensgrow, and Johnny Brenda’s joined forces at Belgrade and Frankford Ave. to create a pop-up plaza. (Jon Geeting) -
Park(ing) Day was for the birds at SMP Architect’s installation at 16th and Chestnut (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
The crowds flocked to SMP Architect’s Park(ing) Day installation at 16th and Chestnut (Jim Saksa/WHYY)
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} The Center for Art in Wood made a reading and crafting parklet taking the bench done by artist Brad Smith that usually lives in the gallery to the street. Katie Sorensen said kids were also making dragonflies. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY) -
Dragonflies made by kids at the Center for Art in Wood Park(ing) Day pop-up (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY) -
Land Collective and Millesime teamed up for an end of the summer parklet or a surreal site of playful contemplation with pool float tree tops and astro turf (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY) -
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Land Collective and Millesime teamed up for an end of the summer parklet or a surreal site of playful contemplation with pool float tree tops and astro turf. Caryn Feuer sits in the background. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY) -
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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Christopher Carola (white shirt) and Steve Gabula from KS engineers playing checkers. Carola said they did not have a lot of budget for their parklet so they recycled things they had. The checkers are made with ends of large-scale plotter paper rolls, the pallets came from a contractor. They are at 35 S 3rd street, between Chestnut and Market. (Catalina Jaramillo/WHYY) -
The Bank at 38th and Lancaster, organized by People’s Emergency Center and LoLa 38. (Diana Lu/WHYY) -
The Bank at 38th and Lancaster, organized by People’s Emergency Center and LoLa 38. (Diana Lu/WHYY) -
The Bank at 38th and Lancaster, organized by People’s Emergency Center and LoLa 38. (Diana Lu/WHYY) -
The Bank at 38th and Lancaster, organized by People’s Emergency Center and LoLa 38. (Diana Lu/WHYY) -
House of the Rising Pun at 4235 Sansom Street, which may or may not have followed the official permitting instructions (Joseph Kavanagh )
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Community Design Collaborative promoted Little Libraries at 12th and Arch, giving away free books (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Community Design Collaborative promoted Little Libraries at 12th and Arch, giving away free books (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Bohlin Cynwinski Jackson reflected the best of Park(ing) Day with their mirrored poles at 11th and Chestnut (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Bohlin Cynwinski Jackson reflected the best of Park(ing) Day with their mirrored poles at 11th and Chestnut (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Milkcrate, MIO, and Langan Engineering built their Build Impact Park(ing) Day pop-up at 17th and Chestnut together (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
(Jim Saksa/WHYY)
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LRK offers lemon scented water and wooden bike racks on Chestnut near 6th (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
STOP, take a load off at LRK’s Park(ing) Day pop-up on Chestnut near 6th (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Students from Charter High school for Architecture and Design offer a participatory pop-up art gallery, asking pedestrians to offer their drawings (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
OLIN landscape architects had everyone feeling sanguine at their Park(ing) Day 2017 installation on Chestnut near 7th. (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Calibri} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Andrew Jeffrey Wright skates at a pop-up skate parklet at Park(ing) Day 2017 on Arch Street near 11th. Designed by James Booney of Space 1026. (Craig Santoro/WHYY) -
Unknown skater enjoys a pop-up skate parklet at Park(ing) Day 2017 on Arch Street near 11th. Designed by James Booney of Space 1026. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) -
Looking up through at least 99 red balloons arranged by OLIN (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
OLIN landscape architects played peek-a-balloon at their Park(ing) Day 2017 installation on Chestnut St. (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
(Jim Saksa/WHYY)
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Cicada Architecture Planning celebrates a Philly block party with recycled paper blocks (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
PSPCA won Park(ing) Day 2017 by showcasing puppies available for adoption. Pictured: Kojinu, a good boy who already has a human (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
PhillyCAM offered genealogy tests and a chance to get on air at their Park(ing) Day pop-up on 7th near Ranstead (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Cicada Architecture Planning celebrates a Philly block party with recycled paper blocks (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
Park(ing) Day? More like Bark(ing) Day at PSPCA’s pop-up. Pictured: Kojinu, a good boy who already has a human (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
SALT design studio, Recycle Bank, CityCoHo, and P.L.A.N. got together to recycle and give away plants (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
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Lammey and Giorgio has recycled materials from their previous Park(ing) Day pop-ups the last few years in a row now (Jim Saksa/WHYY) -
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(Jim Saksa/WHYY)
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