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Incoming

Amber Wiley named director of the Weitzman School of Design’s Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites

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Native Plants, Native Son

Herzog & de Meuron and Piet Oudolf team for Philadelphia’s forthcoming Calder Gardens

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Raising The Barre

Philadelphia Ballet embarks on $34 million revamp and expansion of its home on North Broad Street

On the Move

Daily digest: Flood-ravaged Seoul wants to eliminate its subterranean housing stock, pickleball comes to the Seagram Building, and more

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Extra, Extra

KieranTimberlake restores monumentality to Philadelphia’s Bulletin Building with a new facade

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All Aboard

Daily digest: New renderings drop for D.C.’s reimagined Union Station, Philadelphia’s Shofuso House ransacked by vandals, and more

Home Edition

Daily digest: Top Gun House is now a pie shop, remembering the late Death Star animator Colin Cantwell, and more

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If The Shoe Fits

Penn’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design is getting a namesake academic building

Deborah Berke Partners shakes up Penn’s campus with terra-cotta baguettes

Brick By Brick

The Clay Studio reflects skilled craftwork inside and out in Philadelphia’s South Kensington neighborhood

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Back To The City Of Brotherly Love

Facades+ is returning to Philadelphia this month

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A New Paradigm

Foster + Partners’ massive “hospital of the future” for Penn Medicine opens in West Philadelphia

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Putting the Park Back in Parkway

Design Workshop tapped to lead redesign of Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway

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Monuments Are Dead; Long Live Monuments

Monument Lab and the Mellon Foundation’s National Monument Audit reveals the plasticity of our history

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South Philly Playtime

A new welcome center and play space are slated for revamped FDR Park in South Philadelphia

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Bob Away

Höweler + Yoon’s FloatLab will offer a new perspective of Philadelphia’s Schuylkill River

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Digging Down

DIGSAU brings handcrafted touches to every project

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Design Scribe

Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval talks urban planning and architecture criticism

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