Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Thursday, One Night Only: Eine Kleine Nachtlichtmusik at Crown Hall

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In the early days of Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall, the jewel of the IIT campus, architect John Vinci, then a senior, convinced the s...
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Rabble Overtakes Trib Tower Aerie - with the right kind of cash, you're invited, too.

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In case you've ever wondered about the accommodations the Chicago Tribune aristocrats carved out for themselves below the soaring buttr...
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Dubai's Giant Swiss Cheese Grater becomes Reality

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Usually when you see some architectural firm's really pushing-the-envelope design, your first - and correct - reactions are: a. it's...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

No Room for the Inn: Mondrian Stateless; Waterview "Worthless"

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Two stories this week in Crain's Chicago Business underscored how the current slump in hotel fortunes is affecting the city's archit...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

A Great Show and a Great Storyteller: Tim Samuelson on the art of John T. McCutcheon today at 12:15

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Here's a show you shouldn't miss: The Cartoons of John T. McCutcheon: Chronicles of A Changing World , at the Chicago Cultural Cent...

Balconies and Eaves, Laurel and Hardy in Chicago and Madrid

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Our roving correspondent, architect Iker Gil of MAS Studio , brings to our attention this striking building in Madrid . . . which, of course...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Children's Rises, Time Falls

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Birth and death portrayed in two photographs from CAF docent Kathleen Carpenter. First, this spectacular shot of the new, billion dollar C...
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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Pecha Kucha 9, Woodhouse, Preservation Chicago, Model City, Jens Jensen, Bucky, Uncle Dan, Aunt Bertha, Pilgrim Baptist, - 60 events on June calendar

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By the end of the month, people will be heading out to the beach and events get scarce, but until then, we've got 60 - 60! - architectur...
Friday, May 29, 2009

Reap What you Sow. Supreme Court declines to review hack judge's decimation of landmarks law

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Crain's is reporting that the Illinois Supreme Court has declined without comment the Daley administration's appeal of the ruling of...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Opening Reception Tonight: The Cartoons of John T. McCutcheon

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Today, the Chicago Tribune has been without a primary editorial cartoonist for years, another sign of the decline of print journalism. But ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Chicago Spire: Still Dead

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. . . but the site is so clean! (Photograph courtesy Bob Johnson.)
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The New Old Colony: How Good Dare We Hope It Can it Get?

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High hopes are meant to be dashed, but what's going on at Holabird and Roche's landmark 1894 Old Colony building is close to a revel...
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Never Too Late for More Burnham: Two events added for this week, plus a great new Exhibition

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We'll be starting on the June calendar in another few weeks, but we've just added still another two Burnham-related events to the M...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Memorial Day

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Concrete, Heal Thyself!

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A press story from the University of Michigan is currently circulating on a bendable new engineered cement composite (EEC) with the capacit...
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Little Murders on Mies' modernism alley

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The condemned on the way to gallows (photograph: Edward Lifson) My friend Edward Lifson has been fighting a lonely one-man crusade opposing ...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: When Renzo met Louis

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