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From the iconic PSFS Building to the Society Hill Towers, the city has an impressive stock of modern buildings designed by equally impressive architects between the 1930s and mid-1900s. By the ...
Last week Conrad Benner, who runs the terrific graffiti/public art website Streets Dept., proposed that the historic, much-beloved PSFS building be festooned with an enormous mural. The logic?
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — For more than 85 years, the iconic PSFS lights have shined a unique ... which now owns the building. Smith said the old neon system was replaced in 2016.
Could a smaller model of the PSFS building rise from the corner of 13th and Florist? That’s what Inga Saffron seems to think after reviewing the planned addition for the former Big Brothers ...
On Friday the Philadelphia Historical Commission approved the conversion of the two PSFS signs that help define the city’s skyline to a Light Emitting Diodes (LED) system. Rather than restore the ...
According to a hotel spokesperson, the PSFS sign will not be removed ... In fact, the project’s first phase is taking place in the building’s interior, where “over a half a million ...
The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS) building has always carried a sense of significance since its opening in 1932. It can claim the title of America's first Modernist (or International ...
We know the PSFS building for its place in the skyline, but PhillyHistory takes a look back at how Howe & Lescaze’s design for the PSFS building at 12th and Market is also significant for the ...
When someone comes to visit me, the first place I take them is to the 33rd floor of the PSFS building. The last couple of weeks in April is the best time to visit my city because there are so many ...
You mean you don’t know who Dave – yeah, that’s what I call him – is? You haven’t read What goes unnoticed: On the canonical qualities of the PSFS building? Seriously? You know, the one where Dave ...