Inga Saffron

Inga Saffron is the Architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Read Inga's blog Changing Skyline
Latest post: I-95: Where's the Data? - 02/24/2012
Email Inga at isaffron@phillynews.com

I-95: Where's the Data?

Career in flight
Midcentury goes mainstream
Performance fabrics come inside
Changing Skyline: I-95: Where's the Data?

Architects' zeal for detail - 05/03/2012: By Inga Saffron, INQUIRER ARCHITECTURE CRITIC

When the letter arrived in 2007 inviting Tod Williams and Billie Tsien to enter a select competition to design a new Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the husband-and-wife architectural team were momentarily stumped.
Ravishing building cut off from city - 05/04/2012: Inga Saffron, INQUIRER ARCHITECTURE CRITIC

Inga Saffron: While there are many moments of breathtaking refinement, the result is sadly a long way from being a successful addition to the city.
Dirt is making a comeback - 04/03/2012: Inga Saffron

Would you live in a house made of dirt? The answer, I'm guessing, is no. As a building material, dirt has an image problem. Now, thanks to the effort of several committed architects, dirt is making a comeback.
For Barnes, some parallels at Boston museum - 03/16/2012: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: Seeing the modernized campus of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is good preparation for assessing the shock to come at the Barnes' new home on the Parkway.
Odd silence on I-95 - 02/17/2012: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: Given the growing interest in capturing the Delaware waterfront's economic potential, the future of I-95 should be a hot topic for the Nutter administration. Instead, it's virtually taboo.
Zoning threatens character of Powelton Village - 01/20/2012: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: Philadelphia's Zoning Board of Adjustment recently approved the construction of a new, 18-bed student rental for Drexel University, in the middle of Powelton Village's most historic block.
An energy-saving milestone planned for Kelly Drive - 01/13/2012: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: Hold onto your electric bills, because the first net-zero apartment house in the United States is coming to a most unlikely spot: a forlorn lot on Kelly Drive in East Falls.
Suburbia's outer ring said to be losing shine - 01/06/2012: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: With the trend back to city life, has the region's suburban sprawl reached its limit?
Zoning by fiat may be on the way out - 12/30/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: In Philadelphia, City Council members get to rule their districts with an iron hand. This tradition may soon end.
Design of Lenfest Hall lacks spark - 08/19/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic

Changing Skyline: Lenfest Hall, the new dorm and rehearsal hall for the Curtis Institute, is certainly not your average developer building - far from it. It aspires to be a work of art, and is admirable in many ways.

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Biology central at Drexel - 08/12/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Planned skyscraper has pedestrian design - 07/29/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Warehouse-size billboard eyed for waterfront site - 07/22/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Sharing a vision for a friendlier City Avenue - 07/15/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Another blingy Broad St. building - 07/08/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Mercer Museum is concrete space done right - 06/24/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
A park on high - 06/17/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
A vision of Philly's future - 06/10/2011: By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic