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Friday, December 09, 2022

A Letter to the GSA Opposing the Proposed Demolition of the Century and Consumers Buildings

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I am writing to strongly oppose the proposal to demolish two classic skyscrapers in downtown Chicago. This proposal is unacceptable on se...

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Friday, January 28, 2022

It's Delicious! It's Colorful! It's Fun! It's Plastic! Only through Sunday, The Plastic Bag Store comes to the Wrigley Building.

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You have only through Sunday to see weird, wacky, very fun, but far from frivolous The Plastic Bag Store at the Wrigley Building. The ...

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Thursday, June 17, 2021

The Nine Lives of St. Boniface - Historic Church Architecture at the Crossroads

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(Note: to just flip through the pictures in large view, simply click on any one of them.) S aturday, June 12th , developer Zev Salomon ga...

Sunday, September 23, 2018

Bobbing for Mies - Robert Venturi at IIT

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I n the fall of 2005, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi came to modernist shrine Crown Hall to out Mies van der Rohe as a clo...

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Monday, July 09, 2018

Six Bad Arguments for the Exploding Costs of CTA Stations

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CTA Damen Green Line Station, Perkins and Will The blowback – largely on Twitter – to my post about the $60 million cost of the new Dam...

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