Long-awaited plans to convert Festival Pier (501 N. Columbus Blvd) into two mixed-use buildings with residences and retail, and a pedestrian thoroughfare extending Spring Garden to the Delaware River go before Civic Design Review (CDR) on August 17th.
Tomorrow, Tuesday August 11th at 1pm is the next meeting of the Civic Design Review (CDR). Check out the agenda here.
The Philadelphia Historical Commission meets this Friday at 9:00am and will review many properties, including a reconsideration of the proposed demolition of St. Laurentius Church in Fishtown. Learn more here about DAG's position and read more from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia here.
Investment group Lubert-Adler purchased the building of the former Charter High School for Architecture and Design at 7th and Sansom Street. Lubert-Adler didn’t give any suggestions as to what will become of the site.
Faye Anderson, director of All That Jazz Philly, a place-based history project (and previous DAG speaker), asks why majority white commissions are in charge of reckoning with the legacy of systemic racism in public art and historic preservation.
Olson Kundig proposes a 20,000 square foot single-family residence at 4th and Locust, including the rehabilitation and reuse of two historic homes, to the Philadelphia Historical Commission.
An examination of why some buildings are saved and why others are demolished, and how to build for future reuse and sustainability.
Harvard’s Graduate School of Design focuses on planning “just cities” through the Just Cities Lab which investigates how design and planning affect justice and injustice in cities.
The Inquirer’s Editorial Board notes the importance of the Washington Avenue repaving project, and calls on the city to act boldly to incorporate Vision Zero goals and improve safety and invest in the public environment.
