Thursday, July 30, 2009

The Little Blue IHOP on the (Medical District) Campus

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In a Illinois Medical District campus overwhelmingly populated by four-square structures of deep sobriety: The headquarters for the Medical...

Zaha's Burnham Pavilion starting to look finished. Pay no attention to those folks behind the curtain!

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Now . . . . open wide! Photos courtesy of our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson.
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Aching at the Temples - Malls R Us at Facets starting Friday

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"A sacred place is one that orients one to the values that people hold in common . . . most people don't think of malls as sacred p...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

When a giant mantis gets a raging sunburn - and really drunk

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and, yes, we're slumming for still another day, but, hey, it's summer!
Monday, July 27, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: The Golden Warehouse

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Sunday, July 26, 2009

I told you we should have gotten Kelleher's check up front

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A few commentators slammed me for being ungracious when I suggested in 2007 that we impose on the developer of Santiago Calatrava's prop...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Thomas Adès The Tempest now on record

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Almost five years after its premiere, Thomas Adès opera, The Tempest , is now available in a recording from EMI of a 2007 performance that ...

Are you awake NOW? Not so stupid elevator tricks in art and advertising

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Via weburbanist , 15 often amazing transformations of elevators from the almost unseen workaday machines of numbing repetition to shock-to-...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

ArcchicagoPlus Summer Day: Rattus Zamphir

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via Opera Chic and the Daily Telegraph , a member of the all- Remy orchestra conducted by photographer Ellen van Deelen . View the enti...

Rapp & Rapp's 203 N. Wabash needs a friend - with about $12 million

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Chicago's Crain Business reported this week that 203 N. Wabash has failed to find a developer, is behind on its taxes, and faces forec...
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First Look at Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

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The great thing about movie trailers is that they're often much better than the movie. The horrible thing about movie trailers is that ...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Zaha's crab excreting its soft shell

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photo courtesy of our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson.

Tonight: Mayor Richard M. Daley's Scorched Earth Obsession About to Obliterate Michael Reese?

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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley wants to destroy this: and this: and this: and this: We've written before about how the rich legacy of B...
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Monday, July 20, 2009

Wow, if only the city always moved this fast - newsstand now in place

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As can be seen in this photo provided courtesy Edward Lifson, the city, amazingly, has already put the replacement newsstand in place at Chi...

Get high at the Chicago Temple this Thursday- Sacred Spaces summer tours

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Since we're a bit of a sluggard, we've already missed the chance to alert you to a tour of Chicago Sinai Congregation last Thursday...
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Sunday, July 19, 2009

Michael Reese Demolition Plans to be Unveiled Tuesday

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We received word from Grahm Balkany of the Gropius in Chicago Coalition that this Tuesday evening, July 21st at 7:00, 4th ward Alderman Ton...

WTF? Overnight, local landmark newsstand disappears from face of the earth

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So, I'm walking east on Chicago yesterday to pick up Crain's and the Sunday NYT (in a disconnect of how the digital world should wor...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009

In Praise of Little (comparitively speaking) Plans: Burnham Bros. at DePaul

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Sometimes the most enjoyable shows can be the ones at the periphery. Building the Business of Architecture: The Burnham Brothers and Chicag...
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on Saturday: how to make really big buildings out of concrete and break things for educational purposes

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We've written before about the Museum of Science and Industry's Science Chicago program that, through partners as varied as UIC, the...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: 353 North Clark

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