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Inga Saffron is the Architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

 
Read Inga's blog Changing Skyline
Latest post: Philadelphia modernizes zoning code - and itself - 12/22/2011
  Email Inga at isaffron@phillynews.com
David Girasole stands in front of his home in the 3400 block of Hamilton Street, where an 18-bed student rental building has been approved.
Zoning threatens character of Powelton Village
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Posted 01/20/2012
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.
 
Marketing a house now means a lot more work
 
Philadelphia modernizes zoning code - and itself
The planned Ridge Flats project on Kelly Drive in East Falls is shown in a rendering. Designed by the Philadelphia firm Onion Flats as the nation´s first net-zero-energy apartment building, the complex will include 130 living units, a cafe, shops, and a covered garage - but no heating furnace.
An energy-saving milestone planned for Kelly Drive
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Posted 01/13/2012
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.
 
Modern Gable-Style Homes
 
Old School Green Design: Add Texture With Grass
 
Materials: The Advantages of a Metal Roof
 
Philadelphia modernizes zoning code - and itself
Anne Tyng, 91, groundbreaking architect - 01/06/2012
By Inga Saffron, INQUIRER ARCHITECTURE CRITIC
Anne Tyng, a pioneering woman architect whose ideas about geometry influenced Louis Kahn's buildings and who later had a child with him, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, in Greenbrae, Calif. She was 91, said her daughter, Alexandra, who lives outside Philadelphia.
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?
More stealth in Family Court project? - 01/05/2012
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
A vote on adding an extra story to Family Court was tabled. Nearby property owners hadn't been alerted.
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.
Biology central at Drexel - 08/12/2011
Drexel's fine new limestone-faced lab building is a paean to a burgeoning interest in biological sciences.
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Changing Skyline: Driven by the revved-up agenda of the late Constantine Papadakis, Drexel has cleaned up nicely in the last few years. The latest evidence of that may be the very fine Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building about to open at 33d and Chestnut Streets.
Planned skyscraper has pedestrian design - 07/29/2011
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Changing Skyline: Now that the Buck tower project on Chestnut Street is finally a go, it's hard not to feel deflated. Lean times may produce lean design, but the plan fails to meet even the most modest expectations.
Warehouse-size billboard eyed for waterfront site - 07/22/2011
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Changing Skyline: Developer Bart Blatstein wants to wrap the four-story concrete skeleton in advertisements.
Sharing a vision for a friendlier City Avenue - 07/15/2011
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Changing Skyline: The goal is nothing less than the reengineering of City Ave. from an auto-dependent commercial strip into a walkable, urbane street.
Another blingy Broad St. building - 07/08/2011
Dranoff's winning bid for apartments at South St. again falls short on design.
By Inga Saffron, Inquirer Architecture Critic
Changing Skyline: Despite Carl Dranoff's serious jones for cheap-looking architectural bling, he just managed to score yet another high-profile apartment site on South Street.
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Pier park sparks hope - 05/06/2011
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