Catalogue of Works · No. 54–No. 59
Civic & Landscape Design
Unbuilt visions for streets, greenways and public spaces in Philadelphia and in his hometown of Louisville, and a meditation garden.
No. 54Proposal for the Broad Street Greenway
Enhancements to all seven miles of North Broad Street, from City Hall to Cheltenham Avenue, lighting a notable building on each block and joining Temple University’s two campuses with landscaping.
No. 55Proposal for the Broadway Greenway
For his hometown, streetscaping along Broadway inspired by Louisville’s Olmsted parkways, linking Cave Hill Cemetery to Shawnee Park on the Ohio River to draw people back downtown.
No. 56Proposal for the Allegheny Avenue Greenway
With Cairone and Kaupp, a greenway joining three churches, two parks and a playground along Allegheny Avenue to the Delaware waterfront, returning “Port Richmond to the Port.”
No. 57Vision for Sansom Street
After Gordon Cullen’s Townscape: an archway under an existing bridge frames a small building beyond and leads walkers on toward Jewelers’ Row and Independence Square. Exhibited in the Roxy Theater lobby in 2006.
No. 58Piazza DiBruno: A Vision for the Italian Market
A focal point for the linear Italian Market: a paved piazza and raised café terrace on a derelict corner lot, framing the mural of Mayor Frank Rizzo and a diagonal view to St. Paul’s Church, with a fountain on the corner.
No. 59Meditation Garden: A Place of Well-Being
A rear garden that gathers existing features into a meditative composition. Fifty years after Kahn set his Master Class the problem of a “Place of Well-Being,” he took on the same assignment as a real commission.