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Marked Potential: Film Exchange Building
Architecture

Marked Potential: Film Exchange Building

Shila Griffith is back with the latest and last edition of her column, Market Potential. In this final piece, Griffith reinvents a vacant, Mid-century Modern landmark near Chinatown as a cooperative cooking space for culinary entrepreneurs

Marked Potential: Graffiti Pier
Architecture

Marked Potential: Graffiti Pier

Shila Griffith is back with a new edition of Marked Potential. In this month’s proposal she envisions Graffiti Pier as the city’s next great public park

Marked Potential: Fidelity Trust Company
Architecture

Marked Potential: Fidelity Trust Company

For this month’s Marked Potential Shila Griffith is North Philly bound to convert an old bank on Lehigh Avenue into a market cafe and community co-working space

Marked Potential: Roosevelt Theater
Architecture

Marked Potential: Roosevelt Theater

In Frankford, the Roosevelt Theater faces the El like a careworn sentry guarding the legacy of the city’s last movie palaces. Shila Griffith invigorates the empty, ivory giant with a photography and filmmaking center for teens in this month’s Marked Potential

Marked Potential: Cunningham Piano Company
Architecture

Marked Potential: Cunningham Piano Company

The sleek, slender Cunningham Piano Company tower on Chestnut Street has sat empty for the better part of a decade while potential renovations and reuse have passed it by. Enough is enough, says Shila Griffith, who envisions an all-in-one textile design studio in the sky with this month’s Marked Potential

Marked Potential: St. Andrew’s Collegiate Chapel
Architecture

Marked Potential: St. Andrew’s Collegiate Chapel

With this month’s Marked Potential Shila Griffith gives us a rock climbing gym with a heavenly view inside the divine sanctuary of St. Andrew’s Collegiate Chapel

Marked Potential: Northern Savings Fund
Architecture

Marked Potential: Northern Savings Fund

Interior architect Shila Griffith brings SoHo art space sensibilities to the vacant, fortress-like Northern Savings Fund bank at 6th and Spring Garden with this month’s Marked Potential

Marked Potential: Warwick Apartment House
Architecture

Marked Potential: Warwick Apartment House

With this month’s Marked Potential we put our eyes on the Warwick Apartment House currently under threat of demolition. Interior architect Shila Griffith puts a stop to the wrecking ball with this boutique hotel conversion


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