This is a shot of the old city granary on 20th St. and the new Granary apartments on Callowhill Street. Credit: Inga Saffron 

Granary and apartments share medieval flair.

Considering that the old granary on 20th Street, north of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, was originally a concrete storage bin for wheat and corn, it puts on some grand airs. Topped by an array of towers, it commands the site like a great medieval fortress or a 1920s Gothic skyscraper, proof that powerful architecture exists even in the humblest buildings.

The granary's crenellated roofline is so distinctive that DAS Architects picked up the castle theme and worked it into its Granary Apartments next door. The apartment house (developed by Pearl Properties) is a fairly humble structure itself, sheathed in corrugated metal panels. Like so many mid-rises, it is a long, rectangular building. A flat roof would have been terribly dull....Continue Reading

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