Architecture & Design

After several years of seeing Philadelphia fail to meaningfully diversify the city’s booming construction and building trades, Black workers want change.

The deadly structural failure is still closely studied by civil engineers and serves as a cautionary tale for similar designs.

The winning concepts focused on permanent pedestrian improvements for the infamously auto-centric parkway. A panel will eventually select a single plan.

West Philly’s 140-year-old Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament is set to be demolished, erasing local Black history and memory, writes resident Kyle Hiller.

The plan approved by Philadelphia’s Civic Design Review board would put a 13-story apartment tower in the site of the historic boxing ring.

A former Catholic church at 63rd and Callowhill could meet the wrecking ball as the Boys Latin charter school seeks to clear the way for a new recreation area.

A hidden network of rafters, a plaster “death mask,” and a warning about ice cream.

Philly Council President Darrell Clarke sponsored the bill, citing quality-of-life concerns from residents of the Yorktown and West Poplar neighborhoods.

Downtown bar owner Teddy Sourias has already started work on the beer garden to open on the underused pedestrian mall between Penn Center’s office towers.

The largest pipe organ in the world is 100% operational, with legions of fans.

Hundreds of figures, creatures, and symbols adorn the sides of the largest municipal building in the country.

For many of us, the items in our closet hold meaning, memory, and stories within their seams. On this show, we explore those stories and ask what our clothing means to us.

The new public space in Headhouse Sq. now has parking and lighting for evening events. It is meant to be “inviting to people,” not off-putting, said SSHD director Mike Harris.

The collapse sent bricks and other debris crashing down onto a parked car and caved in a nearby manhole.

Three firms chosen from more than a dozen responding to a March request for proposals will move forward with a public engagement process for the redesign.