The Tower That Ruined Philadelphia?

Philadelphia is a huge city with a relatively understated skyline, so any new incursion into the downtown airspace is likely to be quite noticeable. Recently, a new building was added to the skyline just down the street from the city’s architecturally stunning City Hall, and Philadelphians are aghast. “The 32-story mixed-use tower flounces onto venerable South Broad Street like a sequined and over-rouged strumpet. Sheathed in a sickly shade of pink concrete, the building resembles, as one blogger wittily observed, a giant Pepto-Bismol bottle.”