tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post2075079848957872802..comments2024-03-26T09:42:38.709-05:00Comments on ArchitectureChicago PLUS: J Seward in the Subway?Lynn Beckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03759748613223711212noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10923291.post-17538746021461228722010-07-13T07:30:04.678-05:002010-07-13T07:30:04.678-05:00Interesting to see Chicago choose the same artist ...Interesting to see Chicago choose the same artist widely hired for public art commissions in Carmel, Indiana (the Naperville of Indianapolis). I don't hate Johnson, but his Rockwellian style is all Main St. nostalgia and has nothing to do with a thriving urban city like Chicago.<br /><br />I recall you once bashing the insipid designs and enforced, sanitized homogeneity of Chicago's new bus shelter/news stand system. This is more in the same vein.<br /><br />Chicago is a great city cursed with epically banal designs for its public space, rare exceptions like Millennium Park notwithstanding. Chicago has chosen to adopt an explicitly conservative, suburban, even retro-small town Main St. design signature, not something worthy of a 21st century metropolis.The Urbanophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18094204641794131438noreply@blogger.com