Photography 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.
Art & Design 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
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
Photography 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
Uncategorized 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
Photography Colonial Ruins On The 12th Hole On the back side of the back nine at Sedgley Woods Golf Course, a ruin has become a canvas for graffiti writers. Brad Maule finds many a famous name in the story of The Cliffs in Fairmount Park
Photography Light Filters Down Below Photographer Jessie Fox found herself down below, in an abandoned subway station; here’s what she saw
Art & Design Unsanctioned And Inspired In The Wissahickon Steve Weinik reveals the builders–and their ideas–behind “The Spot”–the stunning handcrafted series of terraces, stairs, nooks, and hideouts along the Wissahickon