• Loews Philadelphia Hotel, previously known as the PSFS Building, is a skyscraper in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • As to the beauty of the new PSFS Building, half the public felt it was an abomination, while the other half admired it for its modernity and boldness.
  • The PSFS building was completed in 1932 and received immediate recognition as a breakthrough architectural achievement.
  • Construction on the PSFS building began in 1931 under architects George Howe and William Lescaze with the design slogan, "Nothing More Modern."
  • Always self-conscious as a place of rich historic tradition and buildings, the PSFS building allowed the city to evolve toward a new type of future...
  • The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building, completed in 1932, was the first American skyscraper to employ the language of the International Style of...
  • ABSTRACT: While the PSFS Building in Philadelphia represents one of the most significant modern buildings of its time, established scholarship has...
  • The PSFS Building, designed by the esteemed architects William Lescaze and George Howe, is a true symbol of modernist architectural innovation.
  • PSFS Building is a frame, office building and steel structure that was built from 1929 until 1932.
  • …conjunction with George Howe, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building, or PSFS (1931–32), which effectively introduced the International style of...
  • The distinctive International-style PSFS Building at Twelfth and Market Streets, built in 1932, served as the bank’s headquarters during a tumultuous period in its...
  • But when it first opened its doors in the early 1930s, the PSFS building was the country's first International-style skyscraper and touted for its early modernist form...
  • The PSFS Building, with its 36 stories, is 491 feet high, and is the tallest office building in the Philadelphia area.