Friday, December 29, 2006

Louis Sullivan from Glass to Gingerbread.

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With three of his Chicago buildings destroyed by fire, the 150th birthday year of architect Louis Sullivan has not not been an altogether ha...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Crawling into the Bunker

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Via the Reed Construction EWire we came across a story by Tom Ramstack of the Washington Times on the new, 438,000-square-foot, $139,000,00...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

The 2006 top ten in Chicago architecture (illuminated)

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What's with this sick compulsion to create year-end top ten lists? Can I resist? Obviously not. Read about the buildings, people and ev...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

Chicago Architecture at Christmas

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Universally, Christmas is a celebration of the triumph of light over darkness. Chicago just may have access to more bulbs than average. See...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Calatrava Spire regains taper in "Version D"

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No renderings appear to be had yet (and if you have them, please forward so I can post them), but Kevin Nance , architecture critic of the ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Pacific Overtures

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Frank's Home , a new play at Chicago's Goodman Theatre by Richard Nelson starring Peter Weller and Harris Yulin captures Frank Lloyd...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

More room to keep all our stuff

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The new statistical abstract is out from the census folks, and its statistics on construction and housing confirms George Carlin's obs...
Monday, December 18, 2006

It's Not Bombed-Out Berlin - It's Our Legacy!

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A photoessay on Chicago's latest and most spectacular facadectomy. Read it here .
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Picture of the Year? - The Coronation at Comer

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If you haven't already, pick up a copy of this Sunday's Chicago Tribune and go to page 2 of the Perspective section to see one of th...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

Massive Sideshow?

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The brilliant graphics designer Bruce Mau says his exhibition Massive Change is "not about the world of design; it's about the des...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Studio Blue does SAIC

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The School of the Art Institute has just put brought on-line a new website , designed by Studio Blue , the firm currently featured in the Ar...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Dragonflies at the Art Institute draw light to the career of Tiffany's Clara Driscoll

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Chai Lee of the Art Institute has sent us this picture of one of the museum's most recent acquistions, created in the New York studios ...

Lucky 13 for Archeworks

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Archeworks is again in the midst of their annual Archcircle fundraising campaign. The alternative design school, founded by Eva Maddox and...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Truth in Advertising from the Chicago Architectural Club

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Tuesday, January 9th is the deadline for entries to the Chicago Architectural Club 's 2007 Chicago Prize competition, Bridging the Dr...
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Andrés the Devil

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Doug McCash, art critic of the Times-Picayune of New Orleans (whose Saints, as I write this, are demolishing the Dallas Cowboys), has writte...
Thursday, December 07, 2006

Calatrava's Latest Twist from Spire to Licorice Stick

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Architect Santiago Calatrava's towering lady is packing on some pounds. Both Crain's Chicago Business and Chicago Tribune architec...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City to be proposed for Landmark Designation

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Tomorrow, Thursday December 7th, architect Lynette Stuhlmacher and Debbie Dodge of Docomomo Midwest and Lisa DiChiera from Landmarks Illino...
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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Antonio Gaudi - architecture's It's a Wonderful Life?

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Okay, two years in a row don't a holiday traditional make, but again this December, the Gene Siskel Film Center is bringing back An...
Sunday, December 03, 2006

The Little Yellow Copter that sells Chicago

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The Real Estate section of this week's Crain's Chicago Business has a great series of profiles of offbeat but essential jobs in buil...
Saturday, December 02, 2006

Last Things

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Der Spiegel, which, if the pickups on the Archnewsnow website are any indication, offers some of the best reporting on architecture in Euro...
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