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Icon of Chinatown overlooked no more
If you’ve walked down 10th Street in Chinatown you’ve seen Philadelphia’s version of a Mandarin palace, the Chinese Cultural and Community…
Time to set explicit, minimum site safety requirements
As the dust settled after the fatal building collapse at 22nd and Market on June 5, we were left with a…
22nd and Market building collapse [news roundup]
We’re still following the news of Wednesday’s fatal building collapse at 22nd and Market Street. It's still very early in terms…
Fatal building collapse at 22nd and Market, rescue ongoing
UPDATED: 7:30am, 6/6/13 A four-story building at 2136-38 Market Street was being demolished this morning when it collapsed at about 10:40am,…
Summer screenings under the stars
Want to watch Rocky within sight of the Art Museum steps? How about pretending that the Schuylkill is the Seine while…
Italian Fountain restored, getting ready to splash again this summer
The seahorses behind the art museum have endured various indignities in recent decades: cement patching, pool paint, a non-functional fountain setting,…
Rain Check: PWD sharing cost with residents to install stormwater management tools
We hear a lot about stormwater management infrastructure being incorporated into plans for new developments, streetscape improvements, and park projects, but…
Happy Memorial Day
Happy Memorial Day, Streeters. We're taking a long weekend and will be back first thing tomorrow morning with The Buzz. Enjoy…
Turning Bainbridge Green from a place to park into a public space
Bainbridge Green is the oddly wide tree-lined strip running down the center of Bainbridge Street between 3rd and 5th streets. Technically,…
Paine's Park opens, already overflowing with skaters [video]
Skaters of every stripe flooded Paine's Park for its opening day festivities on Wednesday afternoon. "While I always trusted that we…
PHS looks to seven sites as next generation civic landscapes
Imagine seeing a landform sculpture or a sea of patterned plantings from the sky as you come in to land at…
May 23-June 30: Hidden City Festival to illuminate overlooked sites citywide
Starting Thursday, and running for the next six weeks, the 2013 Hidden City Festival offers unique opportunities to explore places in…
Four Philly projects awarded ArtPlace America grants
Of the 54 creative placemaking projects awarded 2013-2014 ArtPlace America grants today, four went to Philly organizations planning to use art…
From Above: Refining along the Lower Schuylkill, 1926
In honor of the Lower Schuylkill Master Plan’s [pdf] release earlier this month, we head back into the past to…
KieranTimberlake's renovation of Ortlieb Bottling House underway
We know the Philadelphia firm KieranTimberlake for its high-minded contemporary design projects - from universities across the country to the future…
Meet Chinatown's new parklet
This weekend Chinatown celebrated the opening of its very own parklet, which adds a new pedestrian amenity along the busy 10th…
Return of 'El Gran Teatro de la Luna' tops Fairhill Square improvements
Rafael Ferrer’s exuberant sculpture El Gran Teatro de la Luna (“The Huge Theater of the Moon”) has been missing from Fairhill…
Penn aims to spur innovation in Lower Schuylkill at South Bank campus
On Thursday the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation and Commerce Department released the Lower Schuylkill Master Plan, a blueprint that aims to…
