Philadelphia’s finest example of Brutalist architecture faces an uncertain future. It deserves a second life

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

In Chestnut Hill, the Dorothy Shipley White House gets a helping hand

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

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.

Greg Prichard takes us on a suburban expedition to find Vincent Kling’s lost, modernist gas station on City Avenue

Michael Bixler gives us a last look inside the former studio of mid-century architect Norman Rice

In Eastwick, powerful architecture battles trash and vandalism at vacant George Pepper Middle School. Michael Bixler takes a look with this photo essay.