Photo: Ben Leech
Say what you will about the Sidney Hillman Medical Center at 22nd and Chestnut, it was certainly one of a kind. Designed by Louis Magaziner and Herman Polss in 1950, the building featured rich stone facades and ribbon windows in a stepped, angled massing that evoked a Southwestern pueblo or a Mediterranean hillside. Some people saw it as a modernist gem, while others saw it as a good place for a new highrise. Demolition began this morning.
Photo: Ben Leech
Hidden City is launching its new roster of programs and the next festival with the help of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. All gifts and memberships will be matched one to one up to $100,000 through the 2011 Philadelphia Knight Arts Challenge, and will be acknowledged on the Hidden City Daily site and in literature for the 2013 Festival.
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As a photographer, I’m thrilled to have enjoyed shooting the smooth marble and angular lines of this 50′s classic. For me, it will live on in my digital files.si
I’d like to see your photos.
I would also love to see the photos. The Architect, Herman Polss, was my great uncle. I know very little of his work.