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Noel Mayo, groundbreaking Black industrial designer and college professor, has died at 88
6+ hour, 23+ min ago (699+ words) Former colleagues said he "leaves behind a transformative legacy whose impact shaped generations of students." "Dr. Mayo leaves behind a transformative legacy," former colleagues at Ohio State said in a tribute, "whose impact shaped generations of students, elevated the field…...
They looked for the ideal Center City house, then hired the architect to remake their own
2+ day, 12+ hour ago (627+ words) In the spring of 2020, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and related business shutdowns, the streets of Center City were practically deserted. Two of the few people out and about were lawyers Amy Slater and Mark Silow, who…...
Philadelphia built a tool to track vacant properties, but L&I no longer uses it. Neighbors say they live in fear.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (1734+ words) Emily Phillips and her family never slam doors or walk too heavily inside their North Philadelphia rowhouse. They're afraid of what too much movement could do to the vacant house next door. In early August, a back window and part…...
In Philadelphia, Frank Gehry’s legacy lives on at the Art Museum
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (740+ words) The famed architect died Friday in Santa Monica, but his $233 million renovation of Philadelphia's Art Museum remains. Famed architect Frank Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica at 96 after a brief respiratory illness. And while he is gone,…...
A Philadelphia architect’s plan to build a Poconos home became an epic
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (641+ words) When his wife died almost six years ago, architect Tony Weber never suspected that his quest for a vacation home would set him off on an exhausting architectural venture that would last years. Weber, whose practice is based in Center…...
A new and massive Princeton University Art Museum opens its doors
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (1079+ words) Designed by David Adjaye, who stepped back from the project after allegations of sexual misconduct, the 146,000 sq. ft. museum now has four times its previous gallery space. After years of planning, Princeton University, the nation's fourth oldest college, is making…...
A once-crumbling Point Breeze church is being preserved as a brewery and community space
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (758+ words) A city incentive to protect historically significant churches paves an easier path to redeveloping Second Nazareth Missionary Church. Dane Jensen isn't a developer by training or profession, but he loves old buildings and he's got big plans for the church…...
The Philly legacy of the three Alexander Calders
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (1748+ words) For more than quarter century, Greta Greenberger ended her tours of Philadelphia City Hall at the tower, just below the bronze buckled shoes of William Penn (1892), the shady colossus that Alexander Milne Calder sculpted. From there, she'd point up the…...
Calder Gardens architect on why it is a uniquely Philadelphia institution
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (839+ words) Jason Frantzen is a senior partner in the Herzog & de Meuron architecture firm who studied architecture at Cornell University and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has been the director of his firm's Calder Gardens project since it…...
5 of our favorite sculptures at Calder Gardens and the stories behind them
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (199+ words) A solar system diorama that actually depicts a sick rabbit, a spider-like wiry structure that comes with a gong, and more. Mobiles hanging from the vaulted ceilings in Calder Gardens" sleek underground gallery sway like silent wind chimes. Grounded stabiles,…...