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Photo: Michael Palamountain / En Route

It was never my intention to build a theatre. In fact, it was never my intention to run a theatre. My goal was to create art that made a difference, t… More...

Daddy, Vineyard Theater, 2019. Set design: Matt Saunders. Photo: Matt Saunders

A theatre can be an impressive work of architecture, or it can be a bowl-shaped lawn, or just a box on the street. More...

Exterior of The Wilma Theater Company located on the Avenue of the Arts. Photo: Matt Wargo

The Regional Theatre Movement has grown over the past sixty years with the belief that every city of sufficient size across America should have its ow… More...

The 1913 façade of the Little Theatre of Philadelphia (now Plays and Players). Photo:Jeffery Totaro

Most of what Americans understand today about the worth and place of theatre in the national cultural landscape came into focus during the Little Thea… More...

A street fair on Germantown Ave. was part of the groundbreaking celebrations.

Cecil Baker + Partners continues to expand it's portoflio of affordable housing projects in Philadelphia More...

Rendering: The New Park at Penn's Landing, 2021

Big things are in the works at Penn's Landing, a part of Philadelphia that bridges a multitude of scales, multiple and layered histories, and countles… More...

Design Workshop's proposal for the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, July 2021

Even if you know nothing about the City Beautiful movement and its emphasis on monumental grandeur, you can't avoid sensing that the Parkway was desig… More...

Market Street, looking east from 38th Street in 2022.

Philadelphia is now re-centering itself to the west. Building on Penn's and Drexel's spectacular turn-of-the-Millennium commercial developments along … More...

As Philadelphia heads into the second quarter of the millennium, we asked three of the city's most thoughtful people to make a pitch for what they tho… More...

Athenaeum Assistant Librarian Candace Hesselbart teaches us about the collections regarding the building of Girard College More...

Suzanne Treister, GRAPHITE/MI6/SIS HQ, Vauxhall Cross, London

Join us for a virtual talk by one of our Athenaeum staff members. More...

Alden Park, East Falls

Athenaeum hosts a two week course on the architecture of East Falls More...

Image Courtesy of DIGSAU

Members of the Project Team at Digsau and Becker & Frondorf will provide tours of the building in small groups, sharing details about the project. Sta… More...

Courtesy of Penn Medicine

Join SMPS Philadelphia as key members of Penn Medicine's and LF Driscoll's team describe the integrated project delivery process and lessons learned. More...

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