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Navy Yard: Contemporary Architecture, But Will It Add Up? (Part II)
Architecture

Navy Yard: Contemporary Architecture, But Will It Add Up? (Part II)

What’s been built, what’s in the works, and what’s on the boards. Contributor Jason Lempieri sizes up new corporate architecture at the Navy Yard

Erdy McHenry, Digsau Take Top Honors At 2013 AIA Design Excellence Celebration
Architecture

Erdy McHenry, Digsau Take Top Honors At 2013 AIA Design Excellence Celebration

The annual AIA Design Excellent Awards were handed out to this year’s winners last night, appropriately enough in the PSFS Building. Erdy McHenry and DIGSAU took top honors

Elegant Complexity At Cira South
Architecture

Elegant Complexity At Cira South

The 30 story Grove at Cira South, a residential tower under construction at 30th and Chestnut, ably negotiates its site, users, and the city itself. Brad Maule and Nathaniel Popkin talk to the developer and the architects about their ideas for the ambitious building

Begin The Begin
Architecture

Begin The Begin

Is this the year for inventive and elevating art and architecture? Nathaniel Popkin finds a sign in a Mummers Parade breakthrough

Furness Rising
Architecture

Furness Rising

A century after his death the expressive architecture of Frank Furness is broadening the Philadelphia narrative and expanding our sense of what contemporary architecture can be, says George Thomas, the driving force behind Frank Furness 2012

Hotel Marks Surge Of Navy Yard Investment
Architecture

Hotel Marks Surge Of Navy Yard Investment

A slew of commercial real estate development, infrastructure, transit, and a new master plan coming as the “highly customized”–and strikingly contemporary–Marriott breaks ground

Into The Frontier
Architecture

Into The Frontier

The possible is starting to feel real at the Navy Yard, where commercial development, infrastructure, and yes, transit, seem to be moving forward

Drexel’s New Face
Architecture

Drexel’s New Face

Brutalism made fertile, says Stephen Stofka about Drexel University’s new Papdakis Integrated Sciences Center, reviewed here


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