For The Fringe, A Building That Will Itself Perform
The architects of FringeArts' new performance venue have a imagined an active, flexible building alive to the waterfront setting. Nathaniel Popkin has a look at the transformation of the High Pressure Fire Service station on the Delaware waterfront > more
The Power Plant Previously At Paine’s Park
Harry K gives us the history of the Paine's Park site, once an industrial area along the Schuylkill River's eastern bank that was filled with manufacturing facilities, including the electrical generating plant of the Hestonville, Mantua & Fairmount Passenger Railway, later taken over by the Philadelphia Electric Company > more
Moving The Machine Forward In Old City
The trouble with Old City? After six years of struggles to redevelop the Samuel Machinery Company building, the project is finally moving forward. Apartments and a large retail space will be ready next year. Greg Meckstroth reports > more
Slaughterhouse 3000 (Market Street)
The Shadow digs through the rising glass and steel of University City to find....still standing proudly...a cow pasture in the sky > more
Manufacturing A Good Time
What to do with all these old factories? In recent years, developers have found a new approach: open them up for parties and events. Theresa Stigale pokes around Kensington and Fishtown and finds some of the best > more
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