Battered Brutalist School Awaits Neighborhood Plan
In Eastwick, powerful architecture battles trash and vandalism at vacant George Pepper Middle School. Michael Bixler takes a look with this photo essay. > more
Brewerytown Warehouse Conversion Keeps Graffiti In The Picture
Inspired by an era of abandonment, MM Partners uses street art for interior design. Tyler Horst has the story > more
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 > more
Photographer Captures The Evolution Of Ruins With 4 Years/40 Walls
At the abandoned Spring Garden School No.1, vacant classrooms shape shift into kinetic, visual organisms. Photographer and longtime urban explorer John Bendel records the process with his series 4 Years/40 Walls > more
Mural Arts, Crossing The Tracks In Living Color
With two weeks of work on Katharina Grosse's psychylustro set to begin today (weather permitting), the Mural Arts Program will brighten up five miles of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor with striking color. But what about the colors already there—the decades old graffiti? Brad Maule discusses conflicts and philosophies with the artist and Mural Arts' Jane Golden > more
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