Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tabula Rasa: Daley Bi - Ready for its Makeover into Maggie Daley Park

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click image for larger view (recommended) Our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson provided the above photo of what was, for decades,...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Parade!

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click images for larger view (recommended) See all the photos after the break . . .

Happy Thanksgiving!

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photograph: Dr. K . Wikipedia Commons - click image for larger view
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Holiday Tradition: Bad Video of Lighting Chicago's Christmas Tree

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click images for larger view Amazingly, it took about 75 years after the city's incorporation for Chicago to have its first official...
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Noel, Noel: Walgreen's Revival

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click image for larger view (recommended)  We intend to write about it more extensively soon, but for today, here's a preview phot...
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Chicago Nightscenes Gothic, Goldbergian and Roswellian

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click images for larger view   Quigley  Goldberg ADA Family
Monday, November 19, 2012

Architect as Goth: Odile Decq to lecture at SAIC/AIADO

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Yes, I know it's the 19th, but it's never too late to be adding stuff to the November Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events . ...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

Chicago Streetscene: Fifty Shades of Fall at the Lurie Garden

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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Waiting for Mickey

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click images for larger view Just after we write about the abject dullness of Pioneer Court as a civic amenity, we come to the one time...
Friday, November 16, 2012

Even it its Death Throes, Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital inspires Brilliance as Future Prentice Competition winners are announced

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First Prize Winner, Future Prentice competition (click images for larger view At a sold-out event at the Chicago Architecture Foundati...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Goldberg's Prentice gets reprieve as National Trust, Landmarks Illinois file suit to reinstate Landmark Designation

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Update:   Cook County Judge Neil Cohen ruled that preliminary landmark status is effect for Prentice until another hearing is held Decemb...

Mother of Mercy, is this really the Gateway to the Mag Mile? The dull void of Pioneer Court.

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click images for larger view How much should we expect from our great public spaces, especially when those spaces are actually private? ...