Inga Saffron
@ingasaffron.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize-winning Arch. Critic phillyinquirer & author “Becoming Philadelphia”, 20 years of columns, from rutgersupress Lotsa buildings on IG.
Can we install updated versions of this on all of Philly’s surface parking lots?
September 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Can we install updated versions of this on all of Philly’s surface parking lots?
“Stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions,” writes @BCAppelbaum . www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
June 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
“Stadiums are monuments to the poverty of our civic ambitions,” writes @BCAppelbaum . www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...
The Whales have returned to the Schuylkill riverfront. www.instagram.com/p/DJ1-q6rpNg...
May 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Whales have returned to the Schuylkill riverfront. www.instagram.com/p/DJ1-q6rpNg...
I thought Howard Lutnick promised Americans they’d get to turn the little screws in the iPhone? They literally have no plan.
April 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I thought Howard Lutnick promised Americans they’d get to turn the little screws in the iPhone? They literally have no plan.
Apropos to see this book in the discard pile right now
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Apropos to see this book in the discard pile right now
See IG for my status report on Herzog and de Meuron’s Calder Gardens, which is supposed to open in September on Philly’s BF Parkway. ((Not loving that black cedar on the side and rear facades).
March 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
See IG for my status report on Herzog and de Meuron’s Calder Gardens, which is supposed to open in September on Philly’s BF Parkway. ((Not loving that black cedar on the side and rear facades).
The Pope blesses his Eagles flock
February 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The Pope blesses his Eagles flock
Remembering the hungry underdogs of 2018
February 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Remembering the hungry underdogs of 2018
Montgomery County is building one big hunk of courthouse in Norristown next to its historic Napoleon LeBron building. The new justice center by SOM opens in 2026.
January 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Montgomery County is building one big hunk of courthouse in Norristown next to its historic Napoleon LeBron building. The new justice center by SOM opens in 2026.
This email was written by a rail systems engineer who works in Philly. Think what the city government and Septa were willing to sacrifice so the Sixers owners could put their arena in Center City. Bullet dodged.
January 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This email was written by a rail systems engineer who works in Philly. Think what the city government and Septa were willing to sacrifice so the Sixers owners could put their arena in Center City. Bullet dodged.
The boardwalk extension to the Schuylkill Banks trail is going to change how we see Philadelphia. Opens later this year. (Please don’t ask how I got these photos.)
January 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The boardwalk extension to the Schuylkill Banks trail is going to change how we see Philadelphia. Opens later this year. (Please don’t ask how I got these photos.)
Philly’s Sprucemont, an elegant 1915 Beaux Arts tower at 26th/Spruce, two years after its inept developers went bankrupt.
January 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Philly’s Sprucemont, an elegant 1915 Beaux Arts tower at 26th/Spruce, two years after its inept developers went bankrupt.
Life on Twitter/X
November 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Life on Twitter/X
Philly noir, with Harbisons’ milk bottle and Market-Frankford El
November 19, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Philly noir, with Harbisons’ milk bottle and Market-Frankford El