Monday, April 11, 2011

Chicago Tribune to Prentice: Drop Dead

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Update : see the postscript at the end of this post.   click image for larger view The Chicago Tribune took time off from its second favor...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Last Two Weeks for Young Architects of Spain exhibition at Instituto Cervantes

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Update: the exhibition has now been extended through April 25th, and it includes two lecture/panel events that we will be discussing tomorr...

Chicago Streetscene: I Like Where This is Headed Edition

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Thursday, April 07, 2011

Boyington's Kenwood United Church goes landmark, plus on State Street: Hello Columbus?

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click images for larger view At today's meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks , landmark designation begins for the Kenwood Uni...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Wind Bracing and Chicago skyscrapers, Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago today, Children's Memorial and Robert Krawczyk tomorrow - more for April

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As the April calendar continues to gestate, we bring you the following: Today, Tuesday, April 5th, the Ron Klemencic lecture we told you ab...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

Wong and Gates Monday, Ron Klemencic Tuesday - fragments of the April Calendar

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Rumors of the appearance of the April Calendar of Chicago Cultural Events persist, even as we wish to apologize to those of you who may have...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

Reilly wins 60 day delay on move to demolish Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital

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click images for larger view In a letter to his constituents Saturday morning, 42nd ward alderman Brendan Reilly announced that he had pers...
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Friday, April 01, 2011

Gang disputes Roeder Ford Calumet Environmental Center numbers

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click image for larger view In an email, Studio/Gang architect Jeanne Gang disputed the numbers quoted in a recent article by Chicago Sun-T...

Now up for this month: The Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events

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April Fool! (you don't think we'd ever get one of these things up on time, do you?) To quote Don Corleone, one day, and that day m...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Chicago Streetscene: Texture Strips

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Richard M. Daley, the killer of Chicago Architecture, leaves us one last parting gift

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Can you name a single building the two-decade administration of Richard M. Daley put up that's in the great tradition of Chicago archite...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Dino and skater friends Depart, Tree of Life grows in Millennium Park

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It was just last November that we were saying goodbye to Chinese sculptor Sui Jianguo's Windy City Dinosaur as it was unceremoniously ...
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Cacodemon: The End of Cabrini Green

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click images for larger view Walk east of Halsted, a block or two north of Division, and you encounter crisp new upscale housing development...
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