Magazine

Ulf Meyer | 07.09.2022

Headlines

The board of trustees of the nonprofit Calder Gardens has unveiled the design for a new building and landscape in Philadelphia for displaying the work of artist Alexander Calder.


John Hill | 01.04.2021

Headlines

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has announced that Frank Gehry's renovation, reorganization, and expansion of the museum's 93-year-old landmark building will open to the public on May 7, 2021.


ISA | 17.02.2020

Building of the Week

At only eleven feet wide, the narrow lot for XS House was surface parking for a long time, seen as unbuildable. Strategically using bays and other other features, ISA managed to pack seven residential units on the site, setting a precedent for other leftover spaces in and beyond Philadelphia....


Snøhetta | 25.09.2019

Works

The new Charles Library at Temple University in Philadelphia has opened its doors for the start of the fall 2019 semester. Snøhetta’s design, developed in collaboration with Stantec, reinterprets the traditional typology of the research library as a repository for books.


Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects Inc. | 16.05.2017

Works

Drexel University’s Hillel House is sheathed in local red brick as textured fabric draped in an abstract menorah that terraces down to the street. Arranged on four interconnected levels, the square building has thickened side walls which contain services, and four central columns which...