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435: Way Cool, Even in Daylight

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-21 15:00:00
click images for larger viewRemember when I wrote about this being the ?Coolest Construction Site in the City??Well, it still is, even as it's come out of the ground, and even in the daylight.The site has so much surplus ground space that stuff that would have to been kept somewhere else with more constricted job sites is piling up like Citizen …

Chicago Nightscene: Triple Crown

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-20 15:24:00
click image for larger viewTo tide you over while I work on my latest TLDR . . .

Travesty or Head Trip? Eifman's Rodin at the Auditorium just through Sunday - and the Chicago connection to Camille Claudel

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-18 14:56:00
photo Nikolay Krusser, courtesy Eifman balletWhat Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann is to film, Boris Eifman is to ballet. Which is to say, over-the-top, and then some. To state many critics despise Eifman's work would be an understatement. ?Mr. Eifman flaunts all the worst clich�s of psycho-sexo-bio-dance-drama with casual pride while he rushes headlong to commit a whole new set of …

Opening Saturday: Modernism's Messengers: The Art of Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-16 04:12:00
click images for larger viewIt's like the the folks over at the Chicago Cultural Center were trying to keep it a secret, but this Saturday, May 18 at 10:00 a.m. marks the opening of a highly anticipated show on the work of Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli. Best remembered today for Alfonso's collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on Midway Gardens, the Iannelli's …

At Raw Point of Spring, a Journey through Chicago and its Architecture, Northern Excursion

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-15 05:42:00
click images for larger view (recommended)Last week, we offered a photographic excursion through the near South Side. Today, we turn our attention north, to an exploration of the city as a flow of gestures - of construction, of art, of cultivated nature - creating a montage of visual incident in a continuity of ever shifting juxtaposition.Even when you close your eyes …

Hyde Park under Construction: Harper Court, Hyatt Place

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-13 19:33:00
click images for larger viewHarper Court, Hyde Park, Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture. 150,000 square feet office; 150,000 square feet retail. Hyatt Place, Hyde Park, Legat Architects. Porcelain tile and zinc shingle facade.Across 53rd, the clunky brick of a former Borders purchased by the U of C was stripped away and given a new facade for a Hyde Park flagship of the Akira chain. …

Chicago Streetscene: Evolution

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-13 14:52:00
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Two must-sees, Gatsby (if only for the architecture); Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight tomorrow at the Music Box

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-11 14:44:00
One production had no money; the other had it coming out of its ears. Critics are generally roughing up Baz Luhrman's new version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, but from an architectural standpoint, if nothing else, Production Designer Catherine Martin's creations are well worth a view. Watching the film is like gazing at the world through a pair of …

Southern Excursion - a Journey through Chicago Architecture

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-10 14:34:00
click images for larger viewMadeleine: ...And what do you do, John?Scottie: Oh, just wander about.Madeleine: That's a good occupation.A beautiful spring day in Chicago is pointless to resist, and so I found myself on my way to Ping Tom Park, my only deliberate destination. Beyond that, I wandered, letting the streets with the great names - Emerald, Normal, Lumber - angling …

Buddhist Burnham and Root

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-09 04:30:00
click images for larger view (and apologies for the sun catching a spec of dust on the lens) It's one of the few surviving works by architect John Wellborn Root, and one of his last. He designed it just before he died prematurely in January of 1891, just days after holding a dinner at his Astor Street home for the architects who …

Preview: the changing CMD and the potential of McKinley Park

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-08 15:28:00
click images for larger view Two photos from the story we're working on now.More: Outtakes from the Central Manufacturing DistrictAftermath: Some Say the World Will End in Ice . . .

Last Week to Submit for CAC's Next Stop: BRT Stations Competition

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-07 12:47:00
Noon Monday, May 13th, is the deadline for entering submissions to the Chicago Architectural Club for its 2013 Burnham Prize Competition, Next Stop: Designing Chicago BRT Stations. First prize $3,000, second $1,500, third $750. This is a single-stage international design ideas competition intended to catalyze iconic, sustainable, and functional design for representative corridors in Chicago?s planned Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system. …

Chicago Drawbridges and 10 Buildings that Changed America - two new Documentaries this week

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-06 18:29:00
click images for larger viewTonight at 9:00 p.m. on WYCC - Channel 20, there will be another showing of a fine new documentary, Chicago Drawbridges created by Stephen Hatch and Patrick McBriarity. A companion piece to the book, Chicago River Bridges, scheduled to be published by the University of Illinois Press this October, Chicago Drawbridges chronicles ?the importance of the bridges …

Lipstick Glowing on the Off Ramp: Congress Parkway's New Lighting

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-06 05:44:00
click images for larger viewCan you really redeem something created in the urban equivalent of original sin, when even the two parts of its name - ?Congress? and ?Parkway? - form an oxymoron?In 1909, for his Plan of Chicago, Daniel Burnham envisioned Congress Parkway as the city's great civic promenade, a tree-lined boulevard lined with uniform-height Beaux Arts Buildings leading to …

Retro Saturday: The Dark at the End of the Supply Chain Tunnel

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-04 20:29:00
image courtesy Skyscraper City As we continue to write, we are not in the Industrial Age or Post-Industrial Age. We are in the Age of the Supply Chain, dating back to the start of the Industrial Revolution. It is all about maximizing the profitable production of goods and services by minimizing human labor, and, in its current, mature phase, relentlessly driving down …

Is White Modesty the new Overreaching Ambition? 200 West Randolph

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-03 15:40:00
click images for larger viewI was going to write a post about the relatively modest, 23-story skyscraper J. Paul Beitler is planning to build on the site of this old parking garage at 200 West Randolph, but the Sun-Times Chicago Grid's David Roeder beat me to it (registration required), and basically said most of what I wanted to write. (Although he …

Mars realigns Wright, Achilles on the Glessner bowl, Caughman, Greene, Spirit of Design - still more for May!

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-02 12:43:00
A whole bunch of editions to the May 2013 Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.99% Invisible's Roman Mars, whose April appearance at Frank Lloyd Wrights Unity Temple was rained out, has designs 4 dignity has its' big Spirit of Design fundraiser at Ignite Glass Studio.rescheduled for May 9th, the same day On Tuesday, May 14th, Rolf Achilles lectures on The Glessners'Kutani ware …

Ren� Magritte: Wrigley Rehab Designer?

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-01 22:06:00
Where's Waldo? Above is a rendering released this morning of the huge windswept plaza to be created across from Wrigley Field as part of a $200 million rehab. Can you find the single, tiny tree?Truly weird. Is it a subversive commentary on the death of nature? An amenity for neighborhood dogs?What's your explanation? (And thanks to Gregory Jenkins for pointing this …

Foul Ball Hotel: the In-Your-Face Mediocrity of the Wrigleyville Sheraton

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-01 16:18:00
image: Chicago Cubs Tom Ricketts officially revealed renderings for the Wrigley Field and environs rehab at a City Club breakfast Wednesday morning. Inside Wrigley, the most prominent change is the addition of a 6,000 square foot Jumbotron screen. The terra cotta along Wrigley Field's roofline is also scheduled to be restored, and there's a large number of adjustments designed to improve …

Chicago Nightscene: Under the Fronds

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ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-05-01 06:30:00
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