DesignPhiladelphia 2013 kicks off this Wednesday. Vivienne Tang surveys this year’s docket and checks in with director Hilary Jay for this preview

Penn State University leads a federally funded initiative to create a model energy hub. Vivienne Tang has the story of its first two buildings—a new building and a retrofit—at the Navy Yard

Envisioning a richly calibrated tool for urban investment, the City’s Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy today unveiled a mapping tool for everyone. Vivienne Tang has the story

After a couple years without it, the pleasure cruise returns to the Schuylkill River this summer. Vivienne Tang and Theresa Stigale hop on board The Patriot to see what’s in store

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

The source of Barnes’ fortune? Vivienne Tang traces it to a pharmaceutical factory in an old hotel (which, incidentally, now houses a pharmacy), where Barnes hung his paintings and taught his employees his theories on art and learning