Photography A Fond Farewell To Paley Library At Temple University Paley Library closed its doors to the public on Thursday after serving Temple University for 53 years. Michael Bixler says goodbye to the mid-century modern library with this photo essay ...
Architecture Op-ed: Lessons Learned & Magic Found At Neutra’s Hassrick House In East Falls In this personal essay Jefferson University architecture student Shannon McLain gives a passionate account of the student-led effort to preserve a mid-century modern home on Cherry ...
Architecture Exhuming A Pyramid Of Petrol Along The “Golden Mile” Greg Prichard takes us on a suburban expedition to find Vincent Kling's lost, modernist gas station on City ...
Preservation Jefferson Makes Room For Modernism With New Preservation Program Jefferson University brings Modernist architecture to the forefront with their new historic preservation program and center for studies. Michael Bixler has the ...
Architecture In “Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture,” The City Is A Muse Groundbreaking exhibit of the work of Louis Kahn brings his ideas to life, says Nathaniel ...
Architecture Marked Potential: Mercantile Library If buildings could make distress signals the Mercantile Library on Chestnut Street would fill the ears of all in Center City. The once sleek, mid-century modern structure, vacant for 26 years, now sits in a ...
Architecture Marked Potential: Robinson Building Next up in our Marked Potential series is the Robinson Building at 10th and Market. Interior architect and designer Shila Griffith envisions a multi-screen documentary film theater complex and filmmaker workspace behind the scrolling, Modernist ...
Architecture Modernist Monument To Mid-Century Expansion And The Rise Of The Northeast The Northeast Regional Library on Cottman Avenue was built with a Modernist eye and a civic mind. Part of the Free Library's 1956 Regional Plan to put a library within 15 minutes of every Philadelphian's ...
