To celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary, the Philadelphia Flower Show—its 188th—brings the country’s greatest natural treasures together under one roof. Park enthusiast Brad Maule laces up his boots and hits the Flower Show trail

The history of the Niessen Building is a classic Philadelphia story. Its halcyon days were spent as the headquarters for a cut flower wholesaler, but the building fell on hard times as the neighborhood unraveled in the 1980s. The stately reinforced concrete building was saved from continued humiliation when it was remodeled for a hotel in 2007. The Shadow checks in at 12th and Race

After a walk around its perimeter made him realize the Convention Center stinks, Brad Maule couldn’t have enjoyed the smell of the 2014 Flower Show any better. His photo essay from Articulture this way

After a visit to the Flower Show, Brad Maule reflects on the frustratingly poor urban design of the $780M Pennsylvania Convention Center expansion, including the many missteps and missed opportunities

Everyone knows the city’s new hotel, a Home2 Suites at 12th and Arch, is an architectural mess. Do other factors make up for it? Nathaniel Popkin explores the corporate mindset (and gets kicked out of the hotel doing it)

On the anniversary of its dedication, Harry K laments the loss of the extraordinary Odd Fellows Temple, lost in 2008 to the expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center

The 1929 Liberty Title & Trust tower–the only building on the block not to succumb to the wrecking ball–seems like a certain future hotel. But a year and a half after the opening of the expanded Pennsylvania Convention Center, it remains empty

Ryan Briggs reveals what’s at stake in the showdown between unions and Post Brothers, the developer who says all-union projects can’t be built without public subsidy. The rub: Philadelphia has “Manhattan building costs with Baltimore rents”