I love Philadelphia, but I’d never taken a City Hall tour. Don’t make the same mistake
As I walked through Philadelphia City Hall this month, a woman was singing with gusto in the exterior north corridor about ...
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Drexel in Philly: The Founder’s Old City
Only one of the three Drexel & Co. banks that Drexel’s founder worked in still exists — and the navy-and-yellow building now ...
What the Wanamaker Organ’s ‘last recital’ proved, and why it matters to the social fabric of the city
You walk into the store to buy boots and walk out lifted up by Handel, Sibelius, or Sir Arthur Sullivan. That’s art serving ...
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Philadelphia Ballet nears completion of its North Broad building
The five-story building, expected to be completed in February 2026, will almost quadruple the ballet’s current space to 58,000 square feet. It currently occupies a 15,000-square-foot building on Wood ...
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Why Is Hollywood Obsessed With Architects? ‘The Brutalist’ Gives Us a Hint.
Weaver Federal Building in D.C., by Marcel Breuer, or Boston’s City Hall.) In a world where building seems difficult at best and oppressive at worst, what’s the point of being an architect at all?
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1940 NFL Draft: Oral history – Frank Korch, behind-the-scenes architect of 'Monsters of the Midway'
When the Bears overran Washington, 73-0, in the NFL championship at the end of the 1940 season, Kavanaugh scored a touchdown ...
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Edgar Allan Poe museum plans $10M expansion in West Baltimore
The city's Urban Design and Architecture Advisory Panel ... He is buried downtown in the cemetery surrounding Westminster Hall on Fayette Street, in an iconic resting place that attracts hundreds ...
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Independence Hall
The building has undergone many restorations, notably by architect John Haviland in the 1830s ... and commercial development in the vicinity. Independence Hall is owned by the City of Philadelphia and ...
Scene Calendar: Alex Cuba, The Guy Mintus Trio, and Dance Alive National Ballet in Alachua
Guy Mintus brings the expertise of a trained concert pianist, the energy of a showman, and a jazz musician’s sense of adventure. Coming from a heritage of Iraqi, Moroccan and Polish Jews, he is ...