Inga Saffron

The latest overhaul of Centre Square’s lobby and atrium offers useful lessons for others trying to adapt Brutalist buildings to modern tastes.

The convention-industrial complex is desperately looking for ways to reopen big meeting venues.

Philadelphia trusted the planning process, and it finally got the plan that Penn’s Landing deserves.

The handsome, late 19th-century home where the jazz great composed his most groundbreaking works could be left standing all by itself.

In these dark and difficult times, Philadelphia needs a mayor who will be a visible advocate for Kensington, for transit and for the whole city.

So far, the message to motorists seems to be: C’mon back. But Philadelphia needs to retain the public space clawed back from the automobile during the pandemic.

Spring Garden Street can’t be transformed into a walkable, urbane boulevard without keeping its landmark buildings intact.

A preservation plan would make Christian Street the first space in Philadelphia to receive that honor specifically for its Black history.

This time the city is serious about taming the Parkway’s roads and making it more parklike. But will that be enough to bring more activity?

The new space offers no restrooms, no respite from the rumbling traffic, no water feature, no public art, nothing to delight our eyes.

US Squash has created a country club setting for Philadelphia school kids, while finding a lively use for a dowdy historic building.

There are few places in America where the symbols of freedom and the restrictions borne of our desire for safety clash so sharply as they do on Independence Mall, one of America’s national parks.

Building a proper bus terminal could take Philadelphia years to realize. But there are simple measures city officials could be taking now to dignify this important form of intercity transportation.

The Cedar Park saga demonstrates how hard it is to get Philadelphia residents to accept affordable housing developments, even in places where residents are worried about being priced out.

How a Delaware waterfront townhouse project managed to fail in Philadelphia’s sizzling housing market remains a mystery to the city’s development community and Fishtown residents alike.

Coming up with the rules for an entirely new building type, especially one that can be as big as a tractor trailer, is no simple task.

Because Philadelphia’s premier hospital district has prioritized easy car access, it has been slow to create public spaces where essential workers can go to decompress.

The proposal is a startling throwback to an older, discredited way of thinking about cities.

The Bellwether District will start construction on two warehouses this fall, paving the way for a logistics hub that could employ 19,000 people. No one knows yet how everyone will get there.

It took half a century to repurpose Philadelphia’s vast inventory of obsolete factory buildings. Now we can apply what we learned to office towers.