Friday, December 04, 2009

late calendar event: John Ronan discusses Brice Marden at AIC tomorrow

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We just came across what should be an interesting event. Chicago architect John Ronan , whose work includes the Gary Comer Youth Center and...

After the Bulldozers roll, IHPA votes to preserve Michael Reese

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As reported by Preservation Chicago , the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency voted unanimously today to support putting the Bauhaus-inspi...

Vote on Facebook, help the Off the Street Club get $25k to $1 mil of Jamie Dimon's money

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We've written before about the Off the Street Club, the century-old Chicago institution that has taken thousands of kids off the mean s...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

This weekend: Edgar Miller and Virtual 1893

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Great additions to this weekend's calendar: Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home : Chicago's Forgotten Man - this new book by Richa...
Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Study: Incised Rectangles, with Pigeons

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Monday, November 30, 2009

The Unlovely Bones: Big Jim Deslabbed

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Minimalism meets deconstructionism: Our original post on the $1,000,000+ project to remove the granite panels on the arcade and its disappe...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Burnham tag teams Gaudi, Pecha 12, the 2 Louies, Gang's SOS, Cuno, Nicholson and party, party - 40 events on December calendar

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It's the holidays, and what says Christmas better than the Gene Siskel Film Center's annual showing of Hiroshi Teshigahara's doc...

December 1 deadline to submit photos for CMAP photo contest

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In the great ArchitectureChicago Plus tradition of getting to things only when they're just about over, we wanted to remind you that you...
Friday, November 27, 2009

Three Arts Club Won't See Dead People

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As reported by 42nd ward alderman Brendan Reilly , in a November 28th letter addressed to "Residents of the Gold Coast Neighborhood...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Amazing archival photos of Marina City's construction

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I've written about this before, but one of the high points of my childhood was when my grandmother would take me with her when she came ...
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Happy Thanksgiving!

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"I can't believe you cut the turkey !" - Gabriel Krichinsky, as played by the great, now late (alas) Lou Jacobi. May your fa...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Michigan Avenue's forgotten secret: What's lies behind this innocuous facade?

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Read the fascinating story behind the mystery here .
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Rally today at noon to save Bauhaus-inspired buildings on Michael Reese Campus

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The Gropius in Chicago Coalition will be holding a rally today, Tuesday, November 24 at noon in Daley Plaza to protest the destruction of t...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Old Colony comes clean on Dearborn

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I actually read a comment on the Skyscraper City website that slammed the cleaning of Holabird and Roche's 1894 Old Colony building , sa...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Saturday movie: near perfect six minutes, with donut

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Great storytelling - not a second wasted - coupled to beautifully detailed animation, Pigeon Impossible , from Lucas Martell:
Friday, November 20, 2009

Julius Shulman's Visual Acoustics, Gang on Chicago's future, Sean Keller at iSpace for CAC - more November events

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Julius Shulman: Visual Acoustics. Today, Friday, November 20 through November 26 , Facets Cinémathèque opens a one-week run of Visual Aco...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Shanghai, Prosaic and Delirious: Reversed Images at the MOCP. 600 foot panda included.

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A six hundred foot panda dangling high above a fantastic city. A grandmother and her friends playing Mahjong in the sunlit room of a Shangh...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Chicago Streetscene: Traditional wedding, white horse on the side

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Architecture matters, architecture matters, architectu . . .

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Monday, November 16, 2009

Amazing Hulk to Vanish? MBC in line to get $6 million

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Marina City Online is reporting that a bill awaiting Gov. Patrick Quinn's signature will give the beleaguered Museum of Broadcast Commu...
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