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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 ...
Residential and mixed-use projects make up 54 percent of the immense amount of construction taking place throughout Center City. According to Center City District’s recent annual report, at the end of ...
Philly’s skyline has come a long way since 1987. That’s the year that One Liberty Place became the tallest building in the city, breaking the gentleman’s agreement that no building should ever surpass ...
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 ...
Curbed Philly readers weighed in on the most beautiful streets in Philadelphia. Not surprisingly, these five iconic streets came out on top.
In light of the 150 protest marches scheduled to take place around the country after the Inauguration, it’s worth remembering where and how the original march took place two decades ago.
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 ...
A beginner’s guide to Philly modernism The architects and structures that shaped Philadelphia—and the fate of their legacy ...
There’s so much to see and do in Philly, but we get it: Sometimes you just need to get away. Good thing there are plenty of charming small towns scattered within two hours of the city that make for ...
The Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the dramatic diagonal boulevard that cuts through Philly, is celebrating its centennial this year. Yet it seems so ingrained in the urban fabric of Philadelphia that ...
9 prime places in Philly for Amazon’s HQ2, mapped Readers shared where in Philly they think the Amazon’s second headquarters could set up shop ...
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 ...