Architect's lazy and inane America's Favorite Architecture to the Illinois Bureau of Tourism's beauty contest quest for the Seven Wonders of Illinois, AIA Illinois has finally gotten it right.With 150 Great Places in Illinois, they've finally come up with a compilation that comes off neither as a joke nor as something a PR intern tossed off between assignments. It's a great combination of usual suspects and unexpected discoveries, and it's all available on an addictive, informative and superbly designed website. Read all about it and see some of the photos here.
Well, I know what I'm doing this summer... :)
ReplyDeleteWhat about Hancock?
ReplyDeleteMax Abramovitz' Assembly Hall is on the campus of UIUC (not UIC).
ReplyDeleteRobert I. Selby, FAIA
Louis Sullivan is represented by Carson's at the slide "State and Madison," and the Charnley House at the "Astor Street Historic District" location.
ReplyDeleteRobert I. Selby, FAIA
Our thanks to Professor Selby for catching the UIC for UIUC error. (par for the course for a guy who still sometimes catches himself referring to the Chicago campus as "Circle")
ReplyDeleteIn terms of Louis Sullivan, while a group hug as part of a historic district is nice, it's still startling to find Sullivan, Root and Burnham missing from the list of architects on the AIA Illinois 150 website scroll bar.