Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Chicago Streetscenes - Sunrise, and Lincoln Park Bouncer

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Future City is nigh - volunteers and participants needed

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Imagine a tropical paradise filled with fun and adventure. You’re climbing up the side of a waterfall with the mist spraying in your face. N...
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Monday, August 27, 2007

Modern and Monument, sliding past each other on King Drive

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Chicago's historic Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, as the former Grand Boulevard was renamed in 1980, is still dominated by elegant mansi...
Sunday, August 26, 2007

An Honest Critic's Credo - from a shocking source

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Who would perpetrate such a thing? We unmask the mystery culprit - and reveal his picture - here .
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Friday, August 24, 2007

Uptown Still A'Mouldering

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A note from David Balaban alerted us to a couple of new videos on the Balaban & Katz Foundation website , dedicated to the legendary fa...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Psssst, hey - buddy! Wanna buy the Larkin Building?

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You may have heard Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple referred to as a jewel box of a church, but now you actually have the opportunity ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Dudamel and Abbado, morning and sunset

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Can Claudio Abbado really be 74? The fondly remembered former principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony paces himself carefully the...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

A New Dana every Century

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A rendering was released last week of still another new Chicago hotel, this one in River North at State and Erie. The dana hotel and spa (...
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Monday, August 20, 2007

Grant Park Advisory Reviews new DuSable Harbor Building Monday Night

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The Grant Park Advisory Council will present plans for a new building for DuSable Harbor tonight, Monday, August 20th, beginning at 6:30 P.M...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Outriggers and Masterpieces

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Two essential reads: Supertalling It : Architecture critic Blair Kamin offers up a crackerjack story in this Sunday's Trib on the curre...
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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Let There Be (Less) Light

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The current New Yorker magazine has a must-read article by David Owen on how our obsession with abolishing night through an evermore blazin...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Burnham, Root and the man "responsible for the modern office building"

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While all but a handful of his large commercial projects have been wantonly destroyed, a number of houses and smaller commissions designed b...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

This Sunday's CAF tours benefit family of docent Steve O'Rourke

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The Chicago Architecture Foundation will donate all money from its walking tours leaving from the ArchiCenter Shop, 224 South Michigan, thi...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Sixteen Short Pieces on a City Neighborhood

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A walk through the pleasures and pains that form the texture of Chicago's Logan Square. Read all about it, and see all the photos, here...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Grease Fire = Street Theater

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A fire in one of Chicago's tallest residential towers made scarcely a blip in the city's newspapers and broadcasts Saturday (despite...
Friday, August 10, 2007

Chicago Streetscene - Funeral Home Directional

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An Urban Legend Revisited - earlier this week, the Chicago Inter Ocean ran a disturbing story about a young Chicagoan who picked up an attr...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

On The Edge

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Ah, for the old days, when not even a Rockefeller could bend the will of an obstinate small property owner who just didn't want to sell....
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Openings still available for Archeworks fall term

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Archeworks , the alternative design school founded by Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox, still has a few spaces available for its fall certif...

Wit on the Rise?

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A year after its originally announced groundbreaking date, and after a year before that as an open, gaping pit, there's finally signs of...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007

CTBUH: Third stairwells in skyscrapers won't prevent another WTC

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The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has come out against a proposed change to the 2009 International Building Cod...
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