Thursday, April 09, 2009

When Relationships Between Sculptures Turn Ugly

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The Spearman thought his macho posturing had put the woman in her place. He never even saw the giant leaf-fist as it came towards him.
Tuesday, April 07, 2009

An innie and an outtie - Zaha and van Berkel in Millennium Park

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That's Joe Rosa' s description for the two pavilions to be erected on the Chase Promenade in Millennium Park as part of the centen...
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Monday, April 06, 2009

Buckingham Fountain Re-opens: Gravel Banished

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Is it possible to have too much sparkly brick paving?
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Sunday, April 05, 2009

Big Red is Back

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Since it's 1972 completion, the 601 foot-high CNA Plaza has had a dominant role in Chicago's skyline, not so much from the quality o...
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Me on Monday, plus Zaha, van Berkel revealed, and Inside Out at NPHM: additions to April Calendar

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I'm sure it will be a relief to all, but Monday at 12:15 P.M. at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan, will be your l...
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Friday, April 03, 2009

Burnham Bizarro

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The story of the AIA/Chicago-run competition to design a memorial to Daniel Burnham on the museum campus just keeps getting curiouser and c...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Ancient Mystery at AMA: Pyramids Appear, Disappear

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Those passing by the plaza of Kenzo Tange's AMA Building Thursday morning were confronted by what appeared to be a rogue art installati...
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Ada Louise Huxtable on Charlie Rose tonight

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" . . . a conversation with architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, author of 'On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Centu...

Revised Central Area Action Plan Seeks to raid Chicago's massive TIF piggy bank

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Chicago's Central Area Action Plan is back, and it's taking no prisoners. An amended update of the original 2003 plan is now nearin...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

iTunes offers free John Cage: 4'33

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Ok, you still have to come up with $1.98 to download the entire piece, but iTunes is letting you download the first movement of American com...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

This is Learning from Vancouver?

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Separated at birth? One Museum Park (left), Edgar the cat (right) cat photograph: Yukari OK, not everybody has to be Kate Moss, and not eve...
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Chicago Streetscene: Getting the Account

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Tigerman, Wright, Gropius, van Berkel, Maas, Endres, Garofalo, ∑liasson, de Leon, Bucky and Becker - 70 events on April calendar

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I must be sick. I'm actually publishing the April calendar of Chicago events before the month begins. But then, you'll probably...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

It's Spring in Chicago!

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Last Thursday: Today: Tomorrow - frogs and boil s
Friday, March 27, 2009

Symbol vs Substance: Chicago's memorial to Daniel Burnham

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Does a proposed memorial to architect and planner Daniel Burnham represent an overdue tribute or a colossal failure of nerve? Should 2009 be...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Own Your Own Calatrava, Krueck, Gang, Summers

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Ok, so you're not in an economic percentile that allows you to commission a building from one of Chicago's top architects. Courtesy...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

New Transsolar/Behnisch exhibition opens Saturday, Stefan Bennisch lectures

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Ecology. Design. Synergy. is the name of a new exhibition opening Saturday, March 28th, that features the work of Behnisch Architekten an...

Chicago Streetscene: Sea of Glass

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Monday, March 23, 2009

Chicago Architecture News 3/24/2009 edition

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The National Public Housing Museum receives $40,000 gran t from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will support planning...
Sunday, March 22, 2009

Yikes! Venice Biennale, 2016 and Northerly Island - Still another four events added to March calendar

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Yeah, as if what we had for the balance of the month wasn't already enough. There's the New Yorker's Paul Goldberger talking abo...
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