Philly Bricks

With the new Mormon Temple taking shape on Vine Street and the LDS Church's apartment building proposed for the lot next door, Vine Stre...

What does a government do when presented with more than $400M in Federal and State money? Head for the trough, of course. And that is exactl...

The Disney Hole at 8th and Market, a surface parking lot once home to Gimbels and the proposed site of a DisneyQuest indoor amusement park, ...

Raelen GroJLart's choice words are always welcome in Philadelphia's bizarre and frustrating world of architectural progress. I...

Parks are wonderful urban assets. William Penn's city was built around them. They clean the air and provide recreation and leisure space...

Our skyline might get a new addition, and not where most would expect. Pedestrians and commuters might be looking up in Chinatown, both vert...

At the north end of Chinatown, perhaps the more visible end as it's seen from those exiting 95 onto Vine Street, a poorly utilized concr...

The former Furnished Room District - roughly defined between Broad and Chinatown, and Market and Vine - was once the site of a very unique n...

As ugly as the north facade of the Pennsylvania Convention Center may be, I don't think that the block of Race Street between 11th and B...

For decades Philadelphia hosted two of the nation’s most notorious red light districts. Bound by North Broad Street, Market East, Chinatown,...

One of our largest lesions of surface parking lots sits in a forgotten corner of Center City. Parking Lot Town is boxed in by the Convention...