Sunday, July 12, 2009

Daniel Burnham/Jane Adams/St. Vincent DePaul Grudge Match, Archeworks Open House this week

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Okay, so it's not actually tag-team wrestling, as entertaining as that might be, but what promises to be a fascinating panel discussion ...
Friday, July 10, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: Constructed Sky

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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: Voyagers

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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

David Woodhouse wins Burnham Memorial Competition

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David Woodhouse Architects has been announced as the winner of the Burnham Memorial Design Competition. More images here . Graphics of all ...

Edward Lifson's wedding party, Piano included

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As someone who carries their outcast status around with them like a carapace, who has never been married and is unlikely ever to be married,...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Chicago Streetscenes: The Bad and the Beautiful

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Monday, July 06, 2009

It's the 6th of the month: Time for the July Calendar!

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The pace may be slowing as people are remanded to the countryside for summer, but there are still over three dozen great events on the July ...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

The Last Great Oak Falls - a response from Andrew Patner

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Chicago Sun-Times and WFMT critic and commentator Andrew Patner sent me a very thoughtful and thorough response to my post on the passing ...
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The Last Great Oak Falls - Norm Pellegrini is dead

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I feared something was up when I started to see a number of hits to my website that came off of Google searches for Norm Pellegrini , and la...
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Friday, July 03, 2009

Last Two Days for great Edge of Intent - don't miss it.

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In the time-honored Lynn Becker tradition of reminding you of something special just seconds before it's gone, one of best Burnham relat...
Thursday, July 02, 2009

Uncle Dan Wants YOU! A Burnham 4th - new edition of 1909 Plan, celebration at History Museum

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July 4th, the day the Adams died (Jefferson, too), is not only the 233rd anniversary of our nation's birth, it's the day that Daniel...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: The Phantom of the Opera Tower

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The 45-story Steuben Club Building, 188 West Randolph, 1929, Vitzhum & Burns, whose work also includes One North LaSalle, St. Peters on ...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Not Pritzker perfect, but a new South Loop park a welcome addition to State Street

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This is what it looked like in 2006, a flat, usually deserted expanse of fenced-in lawn: This is what it looked like just this past February...
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

Trash Buckingham Fountain: Just Eight Bits a Day!

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Chicago just spent a lot of money completely upgrading the surface paving all around Buckingham Fountain. A lot more will be spent after th...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009

Manny Renzo Leg and Wing

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for non-Chicagoans: the item annotated and explicated .
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Friday, June 26, 2009

On the Uptown Theater's Past - and Future, plus Under the Buckingham

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"The best theater in Chicago that you can't see" is how one speaker describes the Uptown Theater in the documentary Portrait o...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

David Woodhouse makes a building disappear at DuSable Harbor

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It's Where's Waldo , the architecture edition. Can you spot where the building is here? David Woodhouse Architects tames congestio...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Rare Showing: Lola Montès : Gene Siskel Film Center, Wednesday and Thursday

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When we wrote about a rare showing of Max Orphuls' Lola Montes last year, we didn't think this intimate and epic - and painstakingl...

Great Advances in Elevator Design: Hell to Heaven in just 20 floors

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Imagine leaving your swanky hotel room, entering the elevator and descending into hell. No, we're not talking about the trip down to th...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

A Park for People? No way. A Park for an Office Building? Here's $7 million

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The irony is irresistible. Although a 2007 presentation by John Buck development head Greg Merdinger claimed they had offered the parcel o...
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