Written by:host
3/24/2009 10:43 AM 

March 20, Philadelphia We don't refer to cities as concrete jungles for nothing. Cities are tough places, made up of hard surfaces. In Philadelphia, the default material has always been brick, but as the city grew, builders experimented with limestone, brownstone, a dash of marble, and eventually concrete. We expect a Philadelphia building to emerge from the earth like a natural outcrop. With the arrival of modernism, however, cities everywhere began to lighten up with glass buildings...more

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