From parking lot to pop-up garden
Tucked beneath the trestle at 10th and Hamilton Streets, the PHS pop-up garden is an amuse-bouche of sorts — to bring attention and buzz to what will become the Reading Viaduct Rail Park.
"We are a destination spot — the epitome of the hidden garden, because you have to seek us out," said Sally Anderson, the pop-up's project manager.
Rethinking Philly's memorials
Monument Lab, a public art and history projects, asks: What is an appropriate monument for the current city of Philadelphia? In 2017, More than 20 artists created temporary monuments around the city for the people to ponder this question.
For 10 years Will Starr, a teacher at Plymouth Meeting Friends Schools, has been using the circus to teach his fourth grade students math. We go behind the scenes of the circus to see how the class prepares for the big show.
Every December, volunteers toil away to build a giant wooden bird only to then light it on fire. In 2014, vandals beat the borough to the blaze the night before the festival. Word of the burning quickly spread and by morning hundreds of residents helped to build a new bird.
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan shines a new light on the dangers of lead poisoning. But people have been mining lead, making everyday objects from the metal, and have been aware of it’s dangers for thousands of years.
In this video, we take a step back to look at the history of lead — how it was used, how it was banned in certain items, and how it is still used today.
Islands on Pennsylvania’s waterways are often overlooked or seen as liabilities, but some people are trying to change that. Keystone Crossroads' takes you to three islands to see how cities and agencies are reinventing these unique places.
The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program has brought in Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse to create "psychylustro," seven abstract murals along a 5-mile railway corridor between North Philadelphia and Center City.
Spruce Street Harbor Park is a seasonal park run by the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation. It's an example of low-cost, temporary installations to create long-term change in a neglected space. In 2014, the DRWC hoped to attract 100,000 visitors to the park, and it got half a million.