Philly Bricks

In a recent Philadelphia Real Estate blog , Toll Brothers has come to their own defense. Toll Brothers, long loathed by Philadelphia urbanit...

A common concern brought about by the possible demolition of the Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden is that it's highly unlikely ...

Back in 2004, when funky little firms like CREI were using up and coming urban neighborhoods as their architectural playground for experime...

In what now seems to be the age of Yore and Yesteryear, in 2008 Philadelphia's architectural development was booming. So much so I actua...

Philadelphia - historic as it may be - has always functioned as a working city and as a result, has no inherently true "historic distri...

Many planners and architects consider Society Hill one of the most successful urban renewal projects in the country. Decades after its trans...

As if politicians don't have bigger things on their plate, PETA has urged Mayor Michael Nutter to ban the horse drawn carriages that car...

Philadelphia lost three city blocks for the creation of the Independence Mall, and subsequently several adjacent neighborhoods filled with a...

It's still there, not yet encased in Robert Venturi's latest architectural abortion. The quasi historic Colonial reproduction built ...