Thursday, August 31, 2006

Relief(s) in Summer- Eugene and Gwen Lux's McGraw Hill panels

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The facades of showcase Chicago buildings of the 20's and 30's are often ripe with restrained ornament . How often do we really see...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

5. P.M. Deadline today for voting on entries to Sustainable Design Competition for New Orleans

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We received a reminder yesterday from the folks from Global Green that 5:00 P.M today, Wednesday, August 30th is the deadline for casting yo...

Germany's new tallest escalators are orange - three guesses whose building they're in.

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We recently came across the announcement from ThyssenKrupp Fahrtreppen that they've has just completed installation of the "two ta...
Monday, August 28, 2006

End of The Road

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Last Friday saw the sudden announcement by its current owners that the century-old Carson Pirie Scott department store on State Street, one ...
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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Precision Bombers as Architectural Punctuation

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Late each August, the Chicago Air and Water Show draws millions of people to the city's lakefront, and each year the big finale every...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

The de Tocqueville effect - San Francisco's John King takes on Chicago

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John King, the perceptive architecture critic from my second favorite city, San Francisco, recently spent some time in Chicago and the resul...
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Monday, August 21, 2006

110 in the Shade - Where would we be without ASHRAE Illinois, marking its 100th year?

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Joan Pomeranc of AIA Chicago passes on the news that the Illinois chapter of ASHRAE , the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and A...
Friday, August 18, 2006

Two Chicago in August Streetscenes

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Sliding down the Picasso Blue Diamonds - no almonds required. Do you know it?
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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Biographer Twombly to speak at Sullivan Symposium in Grinnell, Iowa

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Via Pauline Saliga of SAH and Joan Pomerance of AIA Chicago comes word that the sesquicentennial of architect Louis Sullivan's birth is ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

The Graham announces 2006 Carter Manny awards, new director Sarah Herda talks to Edward Lifson

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Chicago's Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts has announced the winner and finalists for its 2006 Carter Manny Awar...
Monday, August 14, 2006

Hope at Block 37? - Ownership changes hands still again

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This past Friday, news outlets including the Chicago Tribune and Crain's Chicago Business reported the Mills Corporation is about to t...
Friday, August 11, 2006

Changing Skyline Vistas - Time-Life Pinched

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For decades after it's 1968 completion, architect Harry Weese's Time-Life building (now known by its address, 541 N. Fairbanks) dom...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Walter Ahlschlager's work profiled in free download

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Joanne Asala of Compass Rose Cultural Crossroads , emailed us to let us know of another great free download that follows on the heels of the...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Skyscrapers of the Sea

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In their own time, sailing vessels like those in Tall Ships Chicago 2006 were among the tallest man-made structures, scraping the heavens on...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Form Based Codes - Reform or Legislated Mediocrity?

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The City of Evanston's Plan Commission is sponsoring a talk tonight , Tuesday, August 8th, by Paul Crawford, chairman of the Form Based ...
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Monday, August 07, 2006

Reprieve in works for Louis Kahn's Trenton Bath House and Chicago's Cook County Hospital?

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Sometimes there's actually good, 0r at least encouraging, news to report on the preservation front. An email on Sunday from architectura...
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Louis Sullivan at 150 - a new Chicago History Museum website lists over 50 events in a six-week celebration of the great architect's birth

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Architect Louis Sullivan, had he lived, would have turned 150 on his upcoming September 3rd birthday. Working with other arts and architect...
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Monday, July 31, 2006

Shangri-La, Uncle Dan Burnham, and Chicago Green City among the events on August Architectural Calendar

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Architect Thomas Hoepf talks about his new Waterview Tower, Northwestern University hosts a three-day seminar on green architecture, and Jud...
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Chicago Streetscene - Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park

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July 22nd, 2006 (It stopped raining for the second half of the concert, by the way.)
Monday, July 24, 2006

Blair Kamin's Boogers - and other great weekend reading

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"My Boogers Itch" may be the least likely phrase that you'd ever expect Chicago Tribune Pulitzer prize-winning architecture cr...
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