By now you've heard about or experienced the inconvenient road closures around the Benjamin Franklin Parkway thanks to the NFL Draft.…
Every year the parking lot in the middle of Eakins Oval is painted with a mural, setting the theme for the…
If The Oval started three years ago as an experiment to see if an underused part of the Parkway could become…
“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.” - Jane…
With pluck and paint a parking lot can become a magic carpet, and an underused bit of parkland can become an…
Renowned architect Frank Gehry was hired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2006 to develop a master plan for the…
Two silvery trees appeared in Iroquois Park-that wedge of green between Eakins Oval and the Philadelphian-last week. They are Symbiosis, the…
As the Philadelphia Museum of Art edges toward its 90th birthday, starchitect Frank Gehry has designed an expansion of our most…
Fairmount Park is like Philadelphia itself: A legacy asset with unrealized potential. We are the lucky beneficiaries of the prescient 19th…
We hear a lot about the value of “activating” public spaces through “lighter, quicker, cheaper” moves that enhance the public life…
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) upstream, the Schuylkill River’s eastern bank has four gazebos dating back to the 1800s,…
In late May we checked in on the restoration of the Italian Fountain between the Art Museum and Boathouse Row. Conservators painstakingly…
On Wednesday, Eakins Oval debuted its new summer identity - “The Oval” - wearing a fresh paint pattern and…
If the Parkway’s new mantra is “More park, less way” then the rallying cry for improving Eakins Oval might be “More…
New bike lanes are in on Fairmount Ave, and they're already getting plenty of traffic. The lanes showed up last week…
The seahorses behind the art museum have endured various indignities in recent decades: cement patching, pool paint, a non-functional fountain setting,…
Nearly two hundred years after Philadelphia became the first American city to build a municipal water system, a long abandoned portion…
Attention foodies and neighborhood explorers: The Food Trust’s Night Market will return for the season on Thursday, May 16, taking over…
The Fairmount Arts Crawl is back and, thanks in part to the Barnes Foundation, this year’s event is even bigger. …
To address the growing business needs of Francisville, Spring Garden, Brewerytown and Fairmount while preserving the four neighborhoods’ unique identities, the…