Thursday, October 04, 2007

Teddy Cruz lectures November 1, Grant Park South Wall tonight, Rolf Achilles on Chicago-Budapest Connection October 18

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Remarkable Guatemalan-born architect Teddy Cruz will be in Chicago on November 1 to deliver the The American Planning Association and the N...
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Influential critic Herbert Muschamp dies at 59

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Word came today that former New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp has died, from lung cancer, at age 59. He was a master at v...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Where Am 1? x5 - The Answers Revealed

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Places your bets. Answers tomorrow. A: Garfield Park fieldhouse B: Midwest Athletic Club , 3800 W. Madison C: Chicago Cultural Center cor...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

A Forest Departs - Tree by Tree

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At a deconstructing park, Big John scoops 'em up and sends them on their way. See the photo-essay and read all about it here .
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Monday, October 01, 2007

Lagrange, Rubio, Tsien, Zago, Kipnis, Celebrating George Danforth, TIF's, Olympics,Remnants of the "L" - over 50 events on October Calendar

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If you're bored this month, you've got a real problem. There are over 50 events on the October Architectural calendar . Lucien Lagr...
Saturday, September 29, 2007

Chicago Streetscene - Hanson Lives!

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Being woefully ignorant about pop culture, when I hear the name Hanson , I remember a band of three teen brothers that became a phenomenon u...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

Chicago's Children Museum "fundamentally misconceived" - Blair Kamin

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Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin this morning condemns the proposed move of the Chicago Children's Museum to Grant Park,...
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Clean Shaven Palmer House Debuts

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Our roving correspondent and photographer, engineer Bob Johnson, gives us these new photos of Holabird and Roche's 1925 Palmer House, no...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

A Landmark Event - Art Institute of Chicago Puts Marion Mahony Griffin's Magic of America on-line

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Nearing the end of her long life, living in a house at 1946 West Estes in Chicago, Marion Mahony (1871-1961) finished her magnum opus The M...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Engineers on Block 37; the Credit Crisis and Commercial Real Estate

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Since we never seem to get around to doing the next month's calender of architectural events until about 11:00 P.M. the previous night, ...

Calatrava's Chicago Spire Seeks Persons of Interest

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Look, but you can't buy - at least not yet, but you can see the ad on a finer bus shelter near you. Santiago Calatrava's design for...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Really bad photos of the renderings the Chicago Children's Museum doesn't want you to see.

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At a September 10th meeting at Daley Bicentennial Plaza, Chicago Children's Museum architect Mark Sexton presented a full set of renderi...
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Monday, September 24, 2007

A Portrait of Mayor Daley's "Nowhere"

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Here's a photo of "Nowhere": That's what Mayor Richard M. Daley derisively calls Grant Park at Daley Bicentennial Plaza, a...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Chicago Architecture Club Fall Kickoff, Alfred Caldwell's Crown Hall Landscaping added to this week's calendar

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Two late additions to this week's calendar of architectural events: Chicago Architecture Club: 2007/8 Season "Architectural (Pro) a...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

From Luciano - to Fabio?

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With the passing of Luciano Pavarotti, Opera Chic considers the supposed current dearth of true Italian tenors, and places a bet on " ...

The World Class Chicago's Children's Museum: We're Number 31!

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Among the frenzied charges of child-hating and racism that Richard M. Daley and supporters of the Chicago Children's Museum have been hu...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Gigi Pritzker crawls into Richard M. Daley's gutter

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The Pritzker family has been the bedrock of Chicago philanthropy. To mention just two of their countless contributions, they established t...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Grace, Found in a Peat Bog, Turns her Back on Dirty Sexy Money

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Last month, in Heritage Green Park, at Adams and Des Plaines just east of Old St. Pat's Church, there was a dedication of a new sculptu...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Why is the Chicago Children's Museum Withholding Renderings of its New Building?

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On WTTW tonight, there was another discussion on the proposed move of CCM to Grant Park, and once again the only visuals were bird's eye...
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Daley the Demagogue

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From Merriam-Webster - Demagogue : a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power. In hi...
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