Art & Design From Prints To Trivets, Art Imitates Life Of Manhole Covers Contributor Jonathan Schmalzbach talks with a designer and a printmaker about their obsession with manhole covers and public utility as creative ...
History Pencoyd Bridge Reopens In Manayunk, As Redevelopment Of Foundry Site Begins The deserted industrial site of Pencoyd Iron Works is next on a growing list of riverside redevelopment along the Schuylkill. Contributor Mick Ricereto takes us deep inside the history of the family-owned foundry and farmland ...
History Finding Robert Wood: The Long Lost Foundry Of An Iconic Ironworker Robert Wood's renowned foundry at the corner of Ridge Avenue and 12th Street on Spring Garden Street once produced some of the nation's finest ornamental iron work. The neighborhood is slowly awakening with renewal, yet ...
Art & Design Live/Work: outcast studios In the first of an occasional series looking at some of the city's more unusual living spaces, we visit an old bronze foundry that's more work/live than ...
