BUILDINGS - CLOSE UP Video Interviews

Argentine bases Philly visit from Chamonix Mansion

Alejandro Martinez, an Argentine who works in the agricultural field, was staying in the American Youth Hostel Chamonix Mansion in Fairmount Park while taking in the historical sites of Philadelphia.…

May 14, 2012

BUILDINGS CURRENT AFFAIRS LIFE + DEATH

Quiet fallen firefighter played “Prince Charming”

Bishop McDevitt High School Admissions Director Christopher Seifert smiles recalling the memory of former schoolmate Daniel Sweeney. The young Philadelphia firefighter died from injuries suffered battling a blaze in a…

April 12, 2012

ART BUILDINGS NATURE

Skyspace for new Friends Meeting in Chestnut Hill

This is a sky space in Pomona in California and I think these are houses maybe in Connecticut. I’m not quite sure. But his work is all over the…

January 9, 2012

BUILDINGS ENVIRONMENT MONEY

Tear it Down, Philly

DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT BUSINESS IT WAS? It was a chicken store. A CHICKEN STORE? Yes. HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN SITTING LIKE THIS? I got to be about 50…

November 23, 2011

BUILDINGS BUSINESS HOUSING

Olsens turn shells into homes

Learn how the Olsens find dilapidated homes, gut them and turn them into beautiful, rehabbed homes. Watch video here.

October 12, 2011

ANIMALS BUILDINGS FOOD + DRINK

Bees make hive in home: Highland Avenue honey

It’s really great. They took the fascia off and the amazing thing to me is as they’re crow barring, and this and that , the bees completely ignored them. So…

July 7, 2011

BUILDINGS HOUSING VOLUNTEERING

Building homes – love in action

On a recent Saturday, Linley Kirkwood, community outreach coordinator for Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County and a Chestnut Hill resident, led a “Love in Action Tour” for prospective volunteers…

April 23, 2011

BUILDINGS FOOD + DRINK

Big Rob serves up Maryland style barbecue

Rob Lambert takes his food truck around to a couple locations in Germantown and Mount Airy and specializes in barbecue, Maryland style. Rich Sanders is a satisfied customer seen here…

February 17, 2011

BUILDINGS CHESTNUT HILL HOUSING

House hunting on the Hill

Prudential, Fox and Roach realtor Pam Thistle shows houses to prospective buyers Dabravka and Moritz Ritter who are attracted to the Hill's Avenue, shops, trains and not "too suburban" feel.…

December 15, 2010

BUILDINGS NATURE

Andorra’s tree house tree stump down

SO THE TREE HOUSE TREE IS DOWN? “Yeah, it’s been a stump for thirty years. It wasn’t going to last forever. AND BEFORE IT WAS A STUMP? “It was the…

September 17, 2010