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Athenæum Steps Into The 21st Century With “Looking Forward”
Architecture

Athenæum Steps Into The 21st Century With “Looking Forward”

The Athenæum of Philadelphia celebrates its 200 year anniversary with an awards ceremony and exhibition opening of their visionary design competition, “Looking Forward”

Furness Rising
Architecture

Furness Rising

A century after his death the expressive architecture of Frank Furness is broadening the Philadelphia narrative and expanding our sense of what contemporary architecture can be, says George Thomas, the driving force behind Frank Furness 2012

At Penn’s New Park, Too Much Green Leaves Me Cold
Art & Design

At Penn’s New Park, Too Much Green Leaves Me Cold

As in Penn Park, there is real ambition behind the just-opened Shoemaker Green on 33rd Street, writes Nathaniel Popkin, but the new public space leaves its star–the Cathedral of Basketball, the Palestra–lost in the woods

The Art Beneath Your Feet
Art & Design

The Art Beneath Your Feet

How a Philadelphia firm salvaged Coney Island boardwalk for the floor of the new Barnes Foundation museum on the Parkway


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