Monday, January 31, 2011

Ontario Street - fast food gulch?

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 We recently wrote about the owners of the old Museum of Contemporary Art hoping to chop it up into several different fast food facilities. ...
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Chicago Streetscene: Hogwarts on Rush

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Street Furniture Competition 2011 launched by Architecture for Humanity/Chicago

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Last year, it was MAS Studio that came up with the winning design (pictured above) for innovative street furniture that was actually fabri...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Quiet winter night at Trump Tower

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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Do Housekeepers Make the Best Architecture Critics? koolhaas houselife at the Siskel on Sunday, Wednesday

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Finished in 1998, the Maison à Bordeaux was one of the early commissions that made Rem Koolhaas a worldwide force:  a bravura piece of arc...

Chicago Streetscene: Rahm Emanuel Declared Provisional Residence Revealed

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

A final roll of Kodachrome captures a lost Chicago landmark

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click images for larger view (strongly recommended) On December 30th, Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas, processed its final roll of Ko...
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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Calling all Flâneurs : MAS Studio, CAC competition Network Reset seeks to reinvigorate Chicago's boulevards for the 21st century

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I remember when I was a very small child (pre-embryonic, actually),  my dad driving us to visit my grandparents in the near western suburbs....
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Sunday Reading: Chicago, Still Corrupt to the Core

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If you need any reminders that Chicago remains a feudalist state, here they are: The Chicago Sun-Times' Mark Brown documents the shad...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

From Venice to You: Mobile Food Collective at Merchandise Mart through the 28th

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Archeworks Mobile Food Collective is taking up residence at the Merchandise Mart through next Friday, January 28th.  Described by Blair Kam...

Bummed by Chicago's Sub-Zero Cold? We Give You the Cure. (you can thank us later)

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click images for larger view     So as the winds howl, your teeth chatter, and frozen extremities begin to grow brittle and drop off, just k...
Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Chicago Streetscene: Compacted Kinzie

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Monday, January 17, 2011

A Pillow for Amanda

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Plastic chiffon seems to the fashion of the moment along a block or so stretch on and around Rush Street. click images for larger view Soft...
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Modern Struggles, Modern Design - Dr. King and the story of Chicago's Liberty Baptist Church

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On the day we celebrate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we recount how some of Chicago's most important civil rights battles c...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

What's the Only Building in North America on the list of 2010's 20 Tallest Skyscrapers?

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  click images for larger view That's right - it's the Legacy at Millennium Park , designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz .  At 72 stori...
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Cap Streeter's Revenge: United States Post Office becomes The Postal Store, once chic Ontario lusts for more fast food.

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click images for larger view When it opened - I'm guessing sometime in the 1940's - the clean-lined, brick building at 227 East was ...
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