Plan For City Branch Rail Park Emerges
The long awaited vision for turning the City Branch into a park connecting the Reading Viaduct and Fairmount Park will be released this week. It calls for a muscular new civic space at Broad Street and connections to the campus of Community College of Philadelphia > more
Viva Venice: How A Water Department Project Is Transforming Manayunk’s Social & Civic Hub
Thanks to an EPA mandate telling the Philadelphia Water Department to modernize its facilities and install an underground sanitary interceptor for major storms, the Venice Island rec center is starting over from scratch. Vivienne Tang and Brad Maule take a look at what the $45M project means for Manayunk > more
Insights On The Temple Of Tomorrow
With major projects in the ground and others in line,Temple's first ever campus architect, Margaret Carney, reflects on the University's design direction and its impact on campus and community life > more
At Penn’s New Park, Too Much Green Leaves Me Cold
As in Penn Park, there is real ambition behind the just-opened Shoemaker Green on 33rd Street, writes Nathaniel Popkin, but the new public space leaves its star--the Cathedral of Basketball, the Palestra--lost in the woods > more
Upping The Ante At Hawthorne Park
Lager Raabe Skafte Landscape Architects' brilliant design for the new Hawthorne Park sets a new standard for neighborhood public space--and proves we can build smart and beautiful > more
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