Friday, March 31, 2006

Nickerson Mansion Cleans Up

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Chicago's 1883 Nickerson Mansion continues its path to rehab. Designed by the firm of Burling and Whitehouse for liquor baron Samuel M...
Thursday, March 30, 2006

Sidewalk Superintendants Delight - Curtain Wall Goes Up at MBC

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Is there anything more lazily satisfied than watching others do interesting work? River North architecture buffs had a grand show put befor...
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Winning newStand competition winners now on view at AFHChicago website

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Architecture for Humanity Chicago has unveiled on its website the winners of its recent newSTAND competition to design a new urban news sta...
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Thursday, March 23, 2006

A Restaurant Goes Dark. A Street Goes Dead

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For over a century, the Berghoff, Chicago's oldest restaurant anchored Adams street in the heart of the Loop. It's post-fire, 1870...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Chicago Streetscene - March 19th - Pigeon warming shelter on Loop "L"

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

$75.00 to see newSTAND competition winners?

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Architecture for Humanity Chicago has announced the finalists for its newStand competition, intended, according to the competition brief, t...
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Monday, March 20, 2006

America doesn't mount the world's tallest buildings much anymore - is it a sign of the sapping of our precious bodily fluids?

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As American's weath flows to China, India and the Middle East via enormous trade deficits that leave ever increasing amounts of U.S. inv...
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Friday, March 17, 2006

An Emerald Carpet for Mies and Wrigley

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Every year since 1962, dyeing the Chicago River green has been a local St. Patrick's day ritual. Nowadays, both the dyeing and a big p...
Thursday, March 16, 2006

Block 37 - The Curse Lives!

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Block 37 is a prime parcel of land in downtown Chicago between Marshall Field's (soon to be Macy's) and Daley Plaza with its Picasso...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Chicago Streetscene - Pioneer Court, March 11th

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

The future of WTTW in just one word: Exfoliation

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Just when you think Chicago PBS outlet WTTW 's shameless corruption can't get any worse, they manage to sink even lower. As it has ...
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Beethoven's Seventh - the Greatest Symphony?

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Trying to pick one "greatest" of all symphonies reminds me of the chronically argumentative parents in Woody Allen's film Radi...
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Monday, March 13, 2006

Goose Droppings in Grant Park and a Calendar Correction: LPCI Historic Columbia College lecture this Thursday

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The idea of massive piles of droppings from the expanding populations of non-migratory geese that are making Grant Park their home sounds pr...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

A Different Take on Density in Tijuana and San Diego - Ouroussoff on Teddy Cruz

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This Sunday's New York Times includes an excellent piece by architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, that discusses the distinctive work...
Thursday, March 09, 2006

Historic Chicago Vista Trumped Out

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Click here for a larger view. Things change. The mostly unlamented modernistic Sun-Times Building is now long gone, along with its seclud...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Koolhaas from Bangkok to Louisville - Never Throw Anything Away

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Thumbing through Rem Koolhaas' s 2004 compilation Content , I came across a section I had forgotten: "The Hyperbuilding - OMA'...

Searching for Embarrassing Architecture and Lagos: World City of the Future?

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I've just been looking over the Prairie Avenue Bookshop' s February email of new arrivals, and what caught my eye was not a book, bu...
Monday, March 06, 2006

IIT's Robertson and Thirst/3ST's Valicenti honored

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Donna Robertson , the Dean of the College of Architecture at IIT who has seen enrollment at her school explode and the campus's first n...
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Friday, March 03, 2006

God vs. Mammon on East Wacker

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Harry Weese's 1968 Seventeenth Church of Christ , Scientist at 55 E. Wacker Drive is a perfect example of how it's often not the old...
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

What Becomes a Parking Garage Most?

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There are two basic schools of thought regarding the design of parking garages. The first could be said to be the "honesty first"...
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