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Bigger than Basketball

Philadelphia community organizers, tenant activists, and faith leaders hold protest against 76 Place by Gensler and 76 DevCo.

Pen(n)cil’s Down

Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia’s new waterfront park by Hargreaves Jones and KieranTimberlake, broke ground

Pocket-sized Paris

Philadelphia announces National/Frontier as the development team reimagining two sites along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Allow Me to Retort

Gensler responds to Design Advocacy Group’s open letter about new Philadelphia 76ers stadium and development

Heating Up

Philadelphia architects and building industry professionals come out against 76ers’ stadium plan by Gensler

Technical Foul

Gensler and the Philadelphia 76ers update proposal for mixed-use stadium complex to include a residential tower

The Grays

John Lobell’s new book The Philadelphia School and the Future of Architecture offers a thorough recounting of an oft-overlooked period

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Wastin’ Away

Daily digest: Times Square Margaritaville in jeopardy, Philadelphia bathroom bonanza, architect serial killer, and more!

Grade Change

Philadelphia’s Thomas Paine Plaza will be overhauled with accessibility upgrades and green space

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Terra-cotta Trapezoids

Penn moves forward with performing arts center designed by Steven Holl Architects

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Infrastructure Week(s)

A collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia will take months to rebuild following a fire

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Traveling

New drawings for Philadelphia 76ers arena revealed amid continuing resident concerns

Check Mate

It’s game over for Philadelphia’s Your Move

“Until real heroes bloom, / this dusty plinth will wait”

Theaster Gates participates in The Monument We Make symposium at Drexel in Philadelphia

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Minerva Parker Nichols

University of Pennsylvania to stage exhibition on first woman architect in U.S. to practice solo

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Controversies, Commissions, and Competitions

Daily digest: World Cup migrant worker fatalities, introducing the Huckabee College of Architecture at Texas Tech, and more news

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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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