Showing posts with label Helmut Jahn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helmut Jahn. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

A Striking New Sculpture is Coming to the Thompson Center: So Why Can't I Be Happy?

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  If the Thompson Center were a new building, we'd all be praising it to the skies.  The boldness of that great sweeping curve of glass ...
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Sunday, October 06, 2013

Designing Chicago's Library of the Future - Part One: Two Very Different Ideas for a Central Library, in Chicago and Seattle

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click images for larger view   In our digital age, where more and more knowledge is “in the cloud” and local governments veer towards ...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

And the Oscar Goes to . . . Divergent - Production Design: Walter Netsch and Helmut Jahn

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Get More: 2013 VMA , Artists.MTV , Music If you were watching the VMA awards this weekend, you probably saw this early trailer for...
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Saturday, February 02, 2013

Saturday Retro: The Architects Speak!

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For today, links to a selection of our interviews and encounters with architects down through the years.  Most of them are from a while back...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

A Casino at the Thompson Center? Casting Dice for the Civic Realm

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click images for larger view It was proclaimed "the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop" at its 1985 openi...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Jahn Simplifies; Goettsch Zheng-ed; smdp Studio covers up - Architects: in the News!

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click images for larger view I just came back from taking pictures of the James R. Thompson Center (and getting a flu shot at Walgreen...
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