Tucked away in the quiet third-floor archives of the William Way LGBT Community Center, there’s a nearly 50-year-old leather-bound folder. The dozens of index cards inside are a window to a different ...

Liberty on the River, a six-building development that would transform a section of the waterfront off Columbus Boulevard with housing, retail, and public space, took a big step forward this month. The ...

New York-based artist Jake Berman wants cities to start examining ways to bring their public transit systems into the future—by looking at the past. And for Philly, that means an oft-forgotten ...

From the outside, The Parker-Spruce Hotel on 13th Street looks like most other buildings in Center City—a towering brick facade with a worn limestone, metal overhang above the entrance. It blends in ...

Louis Kahn was a man of many talents: a gifted artist. A playful pianist. And in the words of Philip Johnson, one of the most influential and “beloved architects of all time.” Frank Gehry, speaking ...

For all the fame that has followed Louis Kahn, what’s even more noteworthy is that many of the architect’s biggest hits were built within a span of just a few decades—and in some cases, four decades ...

It’s a bright and crisp Saturday morning in early December, one of those “couldn’t have asked for a better weather” kind of days. A group made up of a little more than a dozen folks ranging from ...

B Street Bridge in Kensington now boasts a bright, new mural. Photos by Melissa Romero The B Street Bridge in Kensington has always been one of the first things one sees as the eastbound ...

The Lillian Marrero Library is one of the five Philly libraries that underwent a major transformation as part of the 21st Century Library initiative. Photos by ...

PAFA’s Historic Landmark Building is considered one of Frank Furness’s most iconic works. Courtesy of Library of Congress By all accounts, the modern movement in architecture in the U.S. is typically ...

Councilman Mark Squilla put it best when he tried to describe just how posh the new 500 Walnut tower really is: “What amazed me is that when you come into the building’s parking deck, it feels like ...

This stone house in Newtown Square dates back to circa 1810. Photo by John Badalamenti for Lynn Seeburger, BHHS Fox & Roach-Wayne As Curbed has noted many times before, old stone homes are beloved ...