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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-23 04:03:00
I actually read a comment on the Skyscraper City website that slammed the cleaning of Holabird and Roche's 1894 Old Colony building, saying how much they preferred the grime encrusted facade that we'd come to assume simply mirrored what was underneath. And one point the poster made - that the cleaning …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-21 06:59:00
Great storytelling - not a second wasted - coupled to beautifully detailed animation, Pigeon Impossible, from Lucas Martell:


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-20 06:26:00
Julius Shulman: Visual Acoustics. Today, Friday, November 20 through November 26, Facets Cinémathèque opens a one-week run of Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman, a documentary by Eric Bricker on the life and work of the legendary photographer who died this past July at 98. Info and showtimes here.The film, …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-19 06:01:00
A six hundred foot panda dangling high above a fantastic city. A grandmother and her friends playing Mahjong in the sunlit room of a Shanghai Shikumen. An aerial view of the same city splayed out like an exploded photopie.This is the range of Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and its Contemporary …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-18 04:49:00


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-17 04:19:00
Marina City Online is reporting that a bill awaiting Gov. Patrick Quinn's signature will give the beleaguered Museum of Broadcast Communications that $6 million former Illinois governor and Mad Magazine mascot Rod Blagojevich promised years before, and never delivered.It remains unclear how far that $6 million will go towards completing the …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-17 04:01:00
And why do such earnest protestations that architecture matters leave me less persuaded than anxious they might be a sign that it doesn't?


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-16 02:32:00
A couple of Saturday's ago, they dedicated what's called the Printers Row' Park, a generous strip between Dearborn and Federal, between Polk and Harrison, just south of the Transportation Building. There was music, poetry and dancing, as you can see in pictures in the Chicago Journal's report here.The most distinctive element …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-14 06:01:00
This Thursday, November 19th at high noon, at 1338 West Lake, Leslie Hindman will be auctioning off over 50 lots of rare architectural books from the famed, late, lamented Prairie Avenue Bookshop. You can review the entire catalogue, which also includes such literary items as first editions of This Side of …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-14 02:35:00
. . . and the migrant workers who built it far too little?The spectacular Burj Dubai Lake Fountain:and a half mile up atop the spire of the Burj Dubai, now scheduled to open in January:(thanks to Scott Rench)


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-13 03:36:00
Every time I turn around, I stumble on still more great events to add to the November calendar.(lecture Saturday, November 14) -Edgar Miller and the Handmade Home - Chicago?s Forgotten Renaissance Man - This is the title of the new book by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams, with photographs by Alexander …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-12 06:44:00
photographs: Bob JohnsonIn her second childhood, on the road to oblivion, looking very much like she did at the beginning, in the promise of Spring . . .


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-12 06:01:00
via my colleague Will Payovich and core77, here's word of a competition Architecture for Humanity, Chicago Chapter is holding for the design of a logo to brand the groups new role as a government-funded national chapter. Deadline is 5:00 p.m., Monday, November 16th. more info and rules here.


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-11 12:51:00
Here's what may be the most intriguing view of Dan Peterman's bench bench on Millennium Park's Chase Promenade, from our indefatigable correspondent Bob. Johnson.


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-11 06:01:00


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-10 04:01:00
The longest bench in the world? In the resort of Littlehampton in West Sussex, by Studio Weave.Just £68 buys your own dedication on one of the multi-colored slats.The most endless bench in Chicago? We give you this bit of loveliness, running alongside Da Bean in Millennium Park.What genius thought this up? …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-10 03:19:00


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-09 03:07:00
This whole historic preservation thing is more complicated than we thought.Take the case of the Fine Arts Building, acquired by real estate magnate Robert Berger in 2005, which sits on Michigan Avenue just north of Adler & Sullivan's Auditorium. In the latest stage of Berger's exterior renovation of the historic structure, …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-08 06:56:00
That's right, we're still adding stuff to the November calender, and if the past is any indication, there'll be even more by the time last turkey emerges from hiding on the 30th.Global Architecture Brigades: Student-:Led Design Build - Monday at noon in the lower core of Crown Hall at IIT, director …


ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2009-11-08 02:40:00
. Microsoft Cafe opens at 47 Boulevard Sebastopol. Apple Store opens at Carousel du Louvre, beneath the famous museum and in clear sight of I.M. Pei's iconic glass pyramid. The acolytes gather, en masse.


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