Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Public Hearing tonight - Future of Fort Dearborn P.O. Site: Park or Megadevelopment?

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According to a report in Crain's Chicago Business, the Postal Service, in the words of a quoted spokesman, is "beginning the proc...
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Reliance in Photos

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This past fall, ArcSpace editor Kirsten Kiser made a pilgrimage to Chicago to check out the city's progress, and posted this excellent a...
Monday, January 28, 2008

The 25 Simple Rules You Must Follow Before Publishing a Photo of Marina City

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You may have seen our previous posts on the proclamations by the Marina Towers Condo Association that they have the right to forbid anyo...
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Coming Soon

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The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

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Some of the cast of characters on a construction site, in this case the Wit hotel , now rising at State and Lake. You loved her on Three...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Marina City In Its Cups

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Via the indispensible Marina City Online website comes this ad for the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau in which the twin towers of a...
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Friday, January 25, 2008

Preservation Chicago Unveils Chicago 7 '08 Monday, plus Tuesday Hearing on SOM Gunner's Mate Future

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Chicago Seven, 2008 edition . Monday, January 28th, from 12:15 to 12:45 P.M., President Jonathan Fine and VP Mike Moran will unveil grass ro...
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Hyde Park Gangs Up on Solstice

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Nineteenth century, meet the 21st. Just across from the Museum of Science and Industry, the last surviving structure from the 1893 World...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The El You Say

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What is it with the editors of Chicago-based publications that makes them so insistent on mislabeling Chicago's elevated rail system as ...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Newsbits: Driehaus Profiled, White House Redesigned, Internet Censored

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Driehaus Profiled. The New York Times' Robert Sharoff has a great profile of Chicago's congenial anti-modernist, investment guru R...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Three on Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Drive

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In 1885, when architect William Wilson Clay built the mansion for real estate developer D. Henry Hammer at 3656 south, it was called Grand B...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Plan Commission Shows Backbone - Will it Stick or Will it Farwell?

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In something of a surprise, the Chicago Plan Commission had a rare show of independence last Thursday when it rejected a Chicago Department...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Chicago Architectural Club Members Show January 22; Roszak at Crown Hall, January 30th

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Two new additions to the January calendar of architectural events: Chicago Architectural Club Member's Show 2008 - Tuesday, January 22nd...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Calatrava's Chicago Spire : you loved the tower - now buy the soundtrack

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What do the Song of the Dwarves and Santiago Calatrava's 2,000-foot-high tower have in common? Read all about it, and how you can now...
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Blinders Off - World's Largest (?) Tiffany Dome Going Natural

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For over half a century, the great Tiffany glass dome over Preston Bradley Hall has been living a lie. All with the best of intentions, of...
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Lecture Tonight: Chicago History through History Maps by noted Cartographer Dennis McClendon

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A very late addition to the January calendar, noted cartographer Dennis McClendon will lecture tonight, Tuesday, January 15th, on Chicago H...
Monday, January 14, 2008

Hubbard Street Dance at Crown Hall, among four new January events

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An appearance by the Hubbard Street Dance Company at Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall on the IIT campus is among four new additions to t...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008

A Simple Question about Baby Huey

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Shameless demagogue , administrator by press conference, strategist of holding his breath until you turn blue, too lazy to work in the seat...
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Friday, January 11, 2008

Endgame for One of Chicago's Great Public Places?

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The Chicago Daily News Building, Holabird and Root's elegant Art Deco skyscraper from 1929, was the first building constructed over rail...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008

Hedrich Blessing Interiors at ArchiTech

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This Friday marks the opening of Hedrich Blessing Interiors: Architectural Photography of the 1930's: Art Deco interiors photographed b...