Preservation Legendary Philly Soul Studio and Brutalist Icon Go Before Designation Committee Starr Herr-Cardillo has this roundup of local register nominations on the agenda for the August meeting of the Philadelphia Historical Commission’s Designation Committee
Preservation Advocates Mobilize to Save a Mid-Century Modern Icon In Chestnut Hill, the Dorothy Shipley White House gets a helping hand
Architecture Arata Isozaki, Installation Designer Of First Louis Kahn Retrospective, Receives Pritzker Prize Celebrated Japanese architect Arata Isozaki wins the world’s premier lifetime achievement award in the building arts. In Philadelphia, he is known for his creative installation design of the first retrospective devoted to Louis Kahn. Lance Knickerbocker has the story
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 Lane.
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 Avenue
Architecture Inside An Atomic Age Time Capsule In Fitler Square Michael Bixler gives us a last look inside the former studio of mid-century architect Norman Rice
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.
Architecture Eero Saarinen’s Hill College House Fortified With $80M In Renovations Ann de Forest takes us inside Hill College House, a Mid-Century take on Medieval fortification designed by Modernist master architect Eero Saarinen. The dormitory at Penn recently reopened after $80M in engineering upgrades and interior renovations
