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The University of Pennsylvania’s Hill College House, the only Philadelphia-based project of noted Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, is ready for its close-up—again. Hill College House was ...
Fairmount Park is the Goliath of urban parks. The entire system, which includes 63 parks, clocks in at 9,200 acres, making it the largest urban park in the nation. Seriously: It's five times bigger ...
With the news that Trump Taj Mahal is closing after Labor Day, here's a look back at the five casinos that have shuttered in Atlantic City since 2014. Plus: What's in store for the extravagant ...
It’s been nearly four months since we last checked in on progress at the Divine Lorraine, the iconic building on North Broad that has been undergoing $44 million worth of renovations since 2015. In ...
New York-based artist Jake Berman wants cities to start examining ways to bring their public transit systems into the future—by looking at the past. And for Philly, that means an oft-forgotten ...
If Rocky is the movie that defines Philadelphia as a city, it's Silver Linings Playbook that captures the spirit of its Western Suburbs. Filmed in Ridley Park, Lansdowne and, of course, Upper ...
North Broad is booming, with developments big and small being announced on what seems like a weekly basis. Here, we've compiled all of the projects that are both under construction or still in the ...
This 75-story supertall would have risen 1,050 feet above City Hall in the space now occupied by the Residences at The Ritz-Carlton. Rumor has it that Comcast was considering this proposal for their ...
How I-95 broke Philly’s waterfront (and what the city is doing to fix it) Philly is dreaming big and small along the Delaware River after decades of damage caused by one highway ...
Petty’s Island’s return to the wild A 500-acre island once slated for a hotel and golf course has been preserved into perpetuity as a park instead. How did that happen?
Here's a map of ninety-nine Philadelphia hotels of yore, plotted throughout the city. A handful, like the Latham and the Morris House Hotel, operate as hotels today. Most of the hotels still standing ...
Last month for an open thread discussion we posed the question: What's the ugliest building in Philadelphia? Here are the 15 buildings that readers griped about the most.