Philadelphia’s preservation crisis reached a critical high in 2018 with a record-breaking number of demolition permits approved by the City. Here we highlight some of the biggest loses to our built environment in our annual end-of-year list

That cheery, time-honored tradition: the year-end list. Here on the Daily, that means a roundup of the year’s demolitions in our World Heritage City. Brad Maule finds 2016’s list warrants more than just a top ten

As Philadelphia heads into a wide open year with a new administration at the helm of the city, Hidden City takes one last look at 2015. Our fifth annual Lost Buildings list is presented here by Daily co-editor Brad Maule

Our annual review of significant Philadelphia buildings lost to demolition includes significant sites of gay, Jewish, and retail history along with the usual churches and industrial buildings

Our Lost Buildings roundup concludes with five more entries, plus four that almost made the list

For the third year, we’re rounding up ten of the most remarkable, interesting or important buildings that got torn down this year. There’s a lot to digest here, so we’ve split the list into two parts: five buildings today, five tomorrow

A look back at ten remarkable historic structures torn down last year