Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Signs of Summer - Palms Return to Marina City

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Palms Trees are usually not the first thing you associate with Chicago. Bertrand Goldberg 's iconic Marina City complex somehow got alo...
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Skyspace, Marimekko, Alta Vista Terrace, and the Calatrava Spire among over 30 events on June architectural calendar

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The summer slowdown may be underway, but you can barely tell it by the wide range of choices on the June calendar of Chicago architectural e...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Chicago Streetscene - Eternal Flame, Daley Center, May 27, 2006

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Chicago Streetscene, Clark and Lake - April 30, 2006

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Rapson's Guthrie Theater - trashworthy?

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Docomomo Midwest is passing the word on a last-minute petition drive to save Ralph Rapson 's modernist Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, w...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Architectural critic Lee Bey puts up new website

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Former Chicago Sun-Time's architectural critic Lee Bey has a new website, Lee Bey: the urban observer , that both lets you keep track of...
Monday, May 22, 2006

Mayor Daley cosponsors Resolution 50 to make new public buildings fossil fuel free by 2030

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Chicago's Richard M. Daley is among three mayors cosponsoring Resolution 50, Adopting the "2030 Challenge" for City Buildings...
Friday, May 19, 2006

"Almost Nothing" mates "Insanely Great" - gives birth to Cellophane Cube

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Apple Computer's new 59th street store in Manhattan, across the street from the historic Plaza Hotel, opens Friday, and judging just fro...

June 1st new deadline for tours offering rare chance to explore Louis Sullivan masterworks in Chicago, Iowa and Wisconsin

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The Society of Architectural Historians has sent out a notice that the registration period has been extended to June 1st for two ambitious ...
Thursday, May 18, 2006

Dualing photographers, Great Chicago Places and Spaces, and Bruce Mau from the lawn this weekend

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Some late additions to the calendar. Todd Eberle: Architectural Abstractions , is one of two new architectural photography exhibitions that...
Saturday, May 13, 2006

The architect formerly known as Ramus splits from Rem Koolhaas

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It was not through his tutelage as a partner to Rem Koolhaas, but by marriage that architect Joshua Ramus became a Prince. (He added his wi...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Tag Day for an Endangered Kenilworth?

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What do Doo Wop Motels and the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth have in common? They've both just been named by the National Trust for Hi...
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Sunday, May 07, 2006

IIT Student exhibition, Catherine Opie photography among late additions to May calendar

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Repeat's May calendar of Chicago architectural events has been updated to include additional events such as this Friday's exhibitio...
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Saturday, May 06, 2006

Clueless in Baghdad

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Via ArchNewsNow, I came across this article in the London Times about the new American embassy compound now under construction in Baghdad:...

Two Bits - Calatrava in Chicago and now RMJM in Moscow?

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Hot on the heels of the drill-bit design of Santiago Calatrava's proposed Fordham Spire in Chicago, we receive word via ArchNewsNow an...
Friday, May 05, 2006

Adrian Smith gives "The Rest of the Story" on the development of Millennium Park

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I came across a post to Architecture Chicago PLUS this week that carried the name of Adrian Smith, consulting design partner with Skidmore,...
Monday, May 01, 2006

Great Chicago Places, Bernard Tschumi among events on May Chicago architecture calendar

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Things may be winding down a bit as we move towards summer, but there's still a full calendar of architecture related events in Chicago ...
Friday, April 28, 2006

Just like the Matrix - but for Cars!

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Courtesy of Design Evanston's David Galloway and all the fine folks at skyscraperpage , here's a few photos on the striking Hochrega...
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Thursday, April 27, 2006

The Chicago Symphony - The Dream of Gerontologist

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra needs a new music director - Daniel Barenboim conducts his last CSO concerts later this spring, and he's ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2006

An Irishman Asks, "Can a Building be Jewish?", plus Lois Weisberg to be Honored at Archeworks Commencement

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Two late listings of Chicago architectural events: The first four Tuesdays in May, the Spertus Institute will be sponsoring a mini-course, ...