Art & Design Thunderbird Lodge Museum Connects Arts & Crafts Movement With Utopian Community Joe Brin takes use out to Rose Valley, Pennsylvania where a new house museum puts the Arts and Crafts movement front and ...
Photography Art Deco Enclave In Upper Darby A Display For The Ages Starr Herr-Cardillo takes us on an Art Deco-drenched day trip to Upper Darby with photos and the backstory on the exquisite architecture of 69th ...
Preservation LIGHTS! MUSIC! ACTION! Historic Lansdowne Theater Poised For A Comeback After 30 years' slumber, Lansdowne's sumptuous Art Deco movie palace is ready to wake up, and rouse Main Street too, with music and community spirit. Ben Leech has the ...
Architecture Reaching For The Heavens At Cret’s Tower Of Chimes Turn a corner in Philadelphia and you will eventually run into a building or bridge designed by Paul Phillipe Cret. Celebrated for his broad, arched infrastructure and Neoclassical landmarks, not much is discussed of his ...
Urbanism The Gallery: Finally The Destination Ed Bacon Hoped For? PREIT's transformation of The Gallery into an upscale shopping outlet promises to be the suburban-minded downtown destination that the first mall failed to deliver. Contributor Chris Giuliano takes a look at the redevelopment of East ...
Urbanism In Search Of The Source As gorgeous a landscape as the Wissahickon Creek carves through Philadelphia, it couldn't possibly begin its journey to the Schuylkill as an inlet from a shopping mall parking lot. Could it? Brad Maule heads ...
