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Friday, June 27, 2025

Rediscovering Fritz Reiner

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I've j ust finished Kenneth Morgan’s excellent biography of Fritz Reiner, the conductor’s conductor, and a great teacher whose pupils ...

Monday, June 23, 2025

A Walk on the Weird Side: A New Barely Used Roadway in the Midst of Nothing but a Long History of Failed Dreams of a Future

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It wasn’t the brightest thing to do on a sweltering 90º+ day, but after the Dragon Boat races, there was a half hour wait for the water taxi...

Monday, June 02, 2025

What Lies Behind: the secret river lookout hidden in the back of an empty $100 million+ development

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This weekend, Trib architecture critic Ed Keegan wrote a piece advocating that the city acquire the moribund Lincoln Yards site and turn it ...

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The remarkable story of the University of Chicago's Accelerator Building

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I always loved the clean concrete elegance of Hausner & Macsai’s High Energy Physics Building at the University of Chicago, but I neve...

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Best Photos of 2024

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Best photos of 2024? Who knows? After you take almost 50,000 pictures in a year, they all sort of blur together, and not just because most...

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Lynn Becker: . . . writings on architecture have appeared in the Chicago Reader, Metropolis Magazine, the Harvard Design Magazine, and the backs of discarded gum wrappers. We reserve the right to delete posts that we judge spamatory, defamatory or unnecessarily obscene. If you prefer to berate me personally, email me here.

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