Month: January 2014

Support CNA: Become a Dues Paying Member is 2014!

Bob Bruhin

Dear Friend of Callowhill Neighborhood Association,

Greetings and Happy New Year!
As a regular recipient of information and announcements from Callowhill Neighborhood Assoc., we consider your interest in our organization vital to our ongoing efforts at making Callowhill an exciting and desirable place to live and work. As you are probably aware, our neighborhood has undergone tremendous changes within just the last few years and more are on the way.
Which is our reason for contacting you now. For 2014, would you consider becoming a full, dues-paying member of CNA by officially joining our organization? Several levels of membership are available, all quite reasonable:
  • For those who live within our boundaries, a 1-yr. Individual Membership is $25
  • For those outside our boundaries, a 1-yr. Associate Membership is $15
  • For businesses, a 1-yr. Corporate Membership is $50
Increasing the number of members gives CNA more credibility in our contacts with other neighborhood groups, city officials and real estate developers, as well as additional revenue to pursue community initiatives. And for now, dues paying members remain the main source of revenue for CNA.
For your convenience, we now offer the option of paying via PayPal through the CNA website (www.callowhill.org). This will make paying your 2014 membership dues fast, easy and give us all the information we need to keep your membership data and contact information up-to-date.
If you feel more comfortable paying by check, you can do that too. Please mail your payment to:
Callowhill Neighborhood Association
1115 Hamilton St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
Be sure to indicate in the memo line the type of membership you’d like and reference “2014 dues.”
We hope you’ll consider taking this next step in committing yourself, at least in spirit, to this incredible, up-and-coming neighborhood. And our best wishes for a happy and healthy new year!
Sincerely,
Sarah McEneaney – President
Dennis Pilsits – Treasurer

Callowhill Neighborhood Association
[email protected]
www.callowhill.org

The Other Kahn | Hidden City Philadelphia

Bob Bruhin

 

The Other Kahn | Hidden City Philadelphia 317 North Broad St.
Philadelphia, PA
Friday, 14 January, 2011
Copyright © 2011, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.

 

In an ever-upward trajectory, Kahn left his post as chief designer of Mason & Rice to strike out on his own, founding first Kahn & Mason until 1902, and later Kahn & Wilby until 1918. Many treatments of Albert Kahn inevitably deflect toward his kinship with Ford and his impressive portfolio of industrial architecture. Structures like the Packard Motor Car Company Building No. 10 (1905), Philadelphia’s Ford factory on Broad Street, Ford’s half-mile-long River Rouge complex, the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant and Willow Run Bomber Plant stand as emblems of the modern aesthetic: sparse in ornament, direct in their materials and flexible and open in their plans. Later designs like the the Tank and Bomber plants further stoked Europe’s infatuation with slim, clean lines of glass and steel and provided a template–for good or ill–of a bold new post-World War II Modernist aesthetic.

The Other Kahn | Hidden City Philadelphia.

Things YOU can do – VIADUCTgreene

Bob Bruhin

 

Things YOU can do – VIADUCTgreene

Check out our Prospectus 2014.

Get to know the site.

Learn about our directed goals and ambitions as being the best possible stewards of the site. If something stands out for you, please contact us so we may connect you with others.

Express your interest to Tower Investments, owner of the landmark Inquirer Building, that the City Branch corridor be embraced as the great connective civic asset it is. We’ll all be learning about gaming permits in early 2014.

Express your interest to the Community College of Philadelphia that the City Branch Corridor become part of the College’s Master Plan.

Express your interest to the Department of Planning that the continuous integrity of the City Branch Corridor be maintained, including all air rights.

Express your interest to City of Philadelphia office of the Mayor,  City Planning Commission, Dept of Commerce,  Dept of Parks and Recreation that they be supportive of  VIADUCTgreene’s directed goals.

Express your interest to SEPTA that Walking and Bicycles are transit too! All like underutilized corridors deserve special consideration and attention.

Express your interest to the Center City District for holistic over incremental planning and make it’s promised future attempts to create “improvement districts” transparent and inclusive.

Express your interest to the Callowhill Neighborhood Association to look to VIADUCTgreene’s “green the street” initiative ahead of a questionably buildable and fundable “Phase 1″ Rail Park-in-the-sky.

Express your interest to the Parkway Council Foundation, the Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Philadelphia Art Commission that they be supportive of  VIADUCTgreene’s directed goals.

Express your interest to corporate interests to partner in the ‘Dream VIADUCTgreene Ideas Competition’ and other directed goals.

Express your interest to all the above that any “Cultural Corridor” transit be located along Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and Kelly Drive addressing Philadelphia Museum of Art’s restored and renewed major public entryway hall facing Kelly Drive and the Perelman Building.

Know the Place!  Come on a walk!  Past. Present. Possible!

Things YOU can do – VIADUCTgreene.

Urban Landscapes

Bob Bruhin

Here’s a brief look back at 2013 as it to presented itself to PlanPhilly and Eyes on the Street. You’ll see work by professional photographers such as Neal Santos and Ed Hille, our own writing staff, an amazing group of shutterbugs who contribute all year long to the Eyes on the Street Flickr Group, including our regulars: Steve Ives, Gary Reed, Bob Bruhin, Theresa Stigale, and Michael Klusek. We also included some Philly Photo Day submissions!

(via PlanPhilly | Real to Reel, 2013)


Source:

planphilly.com

Urban Landscapes.

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Bob Bruhin

Via Flickr:
Panorama 1916
Esslinger Brewing Company
10th and Callowhill Streets
Philadelphia, PA
Copyright © 2012, Bob Bruhin. All rights reserved.
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