‘The Whole Space is a Billboard’: The IVB Building, Part II
An Interview with Richard Saul Wurman About a Supergraphics-Heavy Bank Lobby
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Chasing Modernity at 1700 Market: The IVB Building, Part I
A Paving Empire, A Failed Fox Theatre, and a Critically-Divisive Precast Concrete Tower
Attaboy, Atterbury: Rosemont College's Cornelia Connelly Hall
A Hamptons Architect Designs a Catholic Women’s College Dormitory
Of Purdon, Pendergrass, and Propriety: 234 South 22nd Street
How a Coastal Maine Wedding Led Me to a Georgian Revival Gem in Rittenhouse
A Saucerful of Secrets: The Philadelphia Welcome Center
Heat-Induced Alien Fantasies, Penn Center Debates, and the Importance of the Mid-century Modern Curve
Watched Over By a Dome of Loving Grace: The First Bank of the United States
What Took Place at the Bank During the Long 1970s?
Cascading Cash and Commemorations: The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
The Transformation of Arch Street, the Maturation of Ewing and Cole, and the Calder Mania of the Bicentennial
Speakeasies, Sinatrama, and Western/Leather: The Black Sheep Pub, Part II
The Bar Odyssey of 247 South 17th Street
All in a Day’s Work: The Black Sheep Pub, Part I
An Inspired Architect Crafts a Double House for Indefatigable Political Strivers
600 North Broad Street: La Vie En Car
How the Preservation Achievement Awards Compelled Me to Research Philly’s Early Automotive History
The Doylestown Donut: Or, The Bucks County Courthouse
Circling the Victorian and the Modern in a Charming Philadelphia Outpost
Squaring the Strawberry, Part II: Mitchell/Giurgola's Mission
Architects Alan Greenberger and Hal Guida and Harrisburger Sandie King Explore Strawberry's Significance
Squaring the Strawberry, Part I: Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and the Road to a City-Changing Structure
A trip to Harrisburg, a Grand Opera House, a Bellevue-Style Hotel, and the Need for Something New
May Day at the Market Street National Bank Building
The Messy Work of City Life in the Pre-History of an Art Deco Gem
The Tiles and Tribulations of 2601 Parkway
How a Lobby Mural Told the Whole History of Human Habitation and Defined a Philadelphia Landmark
The IBM Building and the Head-Spinning Days of Early Computing
Or: How Vincent Kling and a Tech Giant Brought Architectural Life into Penn Center
A Tree-Lined Street Atop Academy House
Exploring the Road to an Unbuilt Rooftop Flight of Fancy
“Sudden Contrasts and Changes”: Venturi and Scott Brown’s Austin Art Attempt
Or: A Trip to Texas and the Ubiquity of Philadelphia Architectural Influence
I Am Media: Discovering Architect Albert Dilks
How a Suburban Hike Led Me to the First National Bank Building
The Atlantic Building and the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon
A Broad Street Landmark Enters My Philly World and Refuses to Leave