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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?
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Built in 1955, and designed by George Howe—known best for the city’s iconic PSFS Building—the structure was originally the headquarters of The Evening Bulletin. The building was converted ...
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 ...
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