PHILADELPHIA | Lowrise/General Developments Thread

[1487]

For those who haven't been by Broad and arch lately the progress on 101 North Broad is picking up. Construction elevators are in place on the west side of the building and windows are being removed. Good to see this long dormant building coming back to life.

[domodeez]

Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 36xSansom, from April 16

Looking northwest from 3500 block Walnut


Looking north from 3500 block Walnut

[summersm343]

Castle Blatstein - 1900 block of S. Rittenhouse Sq



Van Pelt Mews - Van Pelt St. & Walnut St.





Walnut Estates - 22nd & Walnut St.





200 Block of S. 24 St. - demolition making way for multi-million dollar townhomes



24th & Manning St.

[summersm343]

26th & Panama St.



2400 South St.











Bloc23 - Grays Ferry Ave. & Bainbridge St.

[Urbanthusiat]

Thanks again Summers! The big projects are great, but it's the small infill that's making the biggest difference in street life and overall vibrancy.

[summersm343]

22nd & Lombard



20th & Waverly



19th & Lombard





17th & South



1600 Block of South



1400 Block of South



Residences at Twelve40 - 13th and South St.



1100 Block of South





6th & Addison St.



410 Society Hill - 410 S. Front St.





Adagio - Front & Sansom St.



The Estates - 111-117 Walnut St.

[Tlphila]

Ahhh don't know how I feel about The Estates - 111-117 Walnut St... Although the renders did look amazing. How'd they look in person Summers?

[Busy Bee]

Please don't requote big photo posts—it gums up the page loading and is easily avoided with this symbol: ^

[Tlphila]

Thanks for the tip: ^

[1487]

Nice updates.

[tsarstruck]

Originally Posted by Tlphila

Thanks for the tip: ^

Thanks. Could you edit the post and remove then, pretty please?

[Jawnadelphia]

Terrific updates. Thank you.

[Tlphila]

This stunning church at 20th & Spring Garden has been going extensive renovation over the last few weeks. I was told by a construction worker it is to be condos.

[summersm343]

Originally Posted by Urbanthusiat

Thanks again Summers! The big projects are great, but it's the small infill that's making the biggest difference in street life and overall vibrancy.

I agree. The smaller projects filing in the gaps of small surface parking lots and empty lots really go a long way to improving the street.

Originally Posted by Tlphila

Ahhh don't know how I feel about The Estates - 111-117 Walnut St... Although the renders did look amazing. How'd they look in person Summers?

They're okay. They're nice, but I don't like the cement screen wall or whatever it's intended to be. It looks like it belongs on a High School designed and built in the 60s or 70s. I like the corner home with the big windows though.

[Philly-Drew]

Posted by summersm343


Eew. Fake shutters are the worst! Especially in Philadelphia! :babyeat:

[Cro Burnham]

Originally Posted by Philly-Drew

Posted by summersm343


Eew. Fake shutters are the worst! Especially in Philadelphia! :babyeat:

It's as though Toll tries its hardest to come up with the most obnoxiously banal suburban McMansion designs for Philadelphia, even it actually costs them more to do so. It's really bizarre and unfortunate.

Toll is one of those developers I feel actually really hates Philadelphia but will hold its nose and build here as long as it thinks it can make a few bucks.

But this design in particular seems almost calculated to spite us.

[Justin7]

Originally Posted by Philly-Drew

Eew. Fake shutters are the worst! Especially in Philadelphia! :babyeat:

Hey, at they threw in some fake Juliet balconies to compensate.

[japmes]

Originally Posted by Tlphila

This stunning church at 20th & Spring Garden has been going extensive renovation over the last few weeks. I was told by a construction worker it is to be condos.

Interesting. I thought this was still an active church.

[Scottydont]

Originally Posted by Philly-Drew

Posted by summersm343
Eew. Fake shutters are the worst! Especially in Philadelphia! :babyeat:

Funny, fake shutters are more preferred to me then just a flat brick wall.

[Busy Bee]

Yeah those Toll Bros houses are A-1 terrible. There is something very very wrong when, as a preliminary design, this doesn't result in a crumpled ball of paper at the architecture firm and never reaches the light of day. Where in the entire history of western architecture have you seen the facade above the top floor windows look like that? How can anyone be proud of this? The design is retarded—in the actual sense of the word.