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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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