Remembering Ed Bacon, Philadelphia’s Robert Moses
Over the more than 300-year course of Philadelphia’s history, only two urban planners have really mattered: William Penn and Edmund Bacon. Yet by the time Bacon died in October, at 95, some...
View ArticleA Stitch in Time
When I first heard that Philadelphia’s Urban Outfitters (UO) was relocating its headquarters from its cozy Rittenhouse Square offices to the city’s decommissioned navy yard, it sounded like bad news...
View ArticleA Stitch in Time
The Philadelphia Navy Yard is the new home for the corporate headquarters of Urban Outfitters. As America’s Navy Yards and other military posts get adapted to civilian and commercial uses, issues of...
View ArticleSprawl Brawl: Is L.A. Really Denser Than New York?
In case you’ve been lying awake nights worrying that runaway urban sprawl will make Americans supplicants to repulsive oil-rich regimes, turn our coastal settlements into a string of underwater...
View ArticlePied Piper Park: Inga Saffron Reviews Lenfest Plaza
From its beginnings, Philadelphia has been good at using parks to relieve the monotony of its street grid. William Penn encouraged his surveyor to break up the run of straight streets with five city...
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How Architects KieranTimberlake Turned Their Office Into an “Incubator”
James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran stand in the second-floor studio space of their 63,000-square-foot office. Photography by Christopher Leaman It’s a late November day in Philadelphia, with...
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The Flight 93 National Memorial Lets the Landscape Speak
The Flight 93 National Memorial has been a decade in the making. All images courtesy Eric Staudenmaier Photography Of the four planes hijacked on September 11, 2001, United Airlines Flight 93 is the...
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