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Reporter to Icon: the Rise of Philadelphia and the Critic Who Covered It
Architecture

Reporter to Icon: the Rise of Philadelphia and the Critic Who Covered It

“Becoming Philadelphia,” Inga Saffron’s new book chronicling Philadelphia’s rising fortunes over the past 20 years, hits the shelves during a week of tumultuous change

A Golden Glow For The Inquirer’s Saffron
Architecture

A Golden Glow For The Inquirer’s Saffron

Yesterday, the Pulitzer Prize board announced its 2014 winners. After 15 years with a watchful eye on Philadelphia’s built environment, the Inquirer’s Inga Saffron won journalism’s highest award for criticism

Philly.completely Vacuous (Updated)
Art & Design

Philly.completely Vacuous (Updated)

A redesign gave us hope for the region’s most important news website, but that was until news was shunted for gossip, faux news, and shopping

Inquirer Calls Toll Brothers ‘Hip’ And Other Mistruths This Morning
Architecture

Inquirer Calls Toll Brothers ‘Hip’ And Other Mistruths This Morning

Fundamentally backwards architecture gets reclassified this morning by the city’s paper of record. Can we end this fantasy Federalist nonsense, asks Nathaniel Popkin, and open up a real conversation about contemporary architecture?

Before Sunnylands, There Was Sunny-Lands
History

Before Sunnylands, There Was Sunny-Lands

The Annenberg estate, near Palm Springs, to open to the public March 1 as the “western Camp David,” was named for Walter’s father Moe’s estate in the Poconos, near Milford, Pa.


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