Preservation Cultural Institutions Mobilize as Trump’s Executive Order Deadline Approaches The National Park Service has been instructed to remove a display that interprets America’s history of slavery at Independence National Park on September 17. Philly organizations are preparing to fight back
History A History of Slavery: President’s House Monument Turns 10 Amy Cohen explores the back story of “The President’s House: Freedom and Slavery in the Making of a New Nation” on the 10-year anniversary of its unveiling
Urbanism With Pop-Up Beer Gardens Under Threat, Here’s Why They Matter With pop-up beer gardens seemingly everywhere (and now under threat), Nathaniel Popkin talks with the designer of most of them, David Fierabend of Groundswell Design Group, about the ideas behind the installations
Architecture Rohm And Haas: The Plexiglas Palace At 50 At its annual achievement awards ceremony next week, the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia will recognize the Rohm & Haas Building for its 50th anniversary. Brad Maule explores how a collaboration designing the project—the first new building on Independence Mall—resulted in one of the largest multidisciplinary firms in the country
