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It's almost here: National Engineers Week, February 17-23, the annual event that bring engineers into the spotlight often hogged by their architect partners, reminding us that no matter how beautiful a building might be, it's a whole better when an engineer is on board to make sure it doesn't fall down.This Sunday, February 17, the Chicago Architecture Foundation kicks it all …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-14 23:38:00
click images for larger view Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Landmarks Illinois moved for a voluntary dismissal of their complaint in Cook County Circuit Court, signaling the end of their legal challenge against the City of Chicago and the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. At the end, even the members of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks were coming to the realize …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-14 15:57:00
click images for larger view?Nowhere?, is what former Mayor Daley claimed you'd find once you crossed over the sinuous Frank Gehry-designed BP Bridge in Millennium Park into Daley Bi-centennial Plaza. At the time it was a lie, designed as part of a campaign to jam a Children's Museum into Grant Park. Now, the Gehry has actually become a bridge to nowhere. It's …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-13 16:27:00
This picks up from my first Finishing the Riverwalk post last week to continue westward with City of Chicago's new plan to complete the Chicago Riverwalk along the north bank of the river from State Street to Lake Street, which has remained unfinished since the reconstruction of West Wacker Drive over a decade ago.CDOT Chicago Riverwalk proposal - The Cove (click …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-12 10:52:00
click images for larger view If there's such a thing as original sin, there's also original charm. That's the feel-good karma that Wrigley Field and the Chicago Cubs have made a long life of, even down to today. As battle lines are drawn over major renovations to the landmark stadium, how they're to be paid for, and how they'll affect the surrounding …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-11 20:19:00
Wolf Point, West Tower - click images for larger view OK, let me be honest. This blog, as you may have noticed, may not always be the most impeccably researched document on the web, or the most hard-hitting journalism.Still, I was a bit taken aback by the Chicago Architecture Blog's The Backstory on bKL. The first thing I noticed was that it …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-11 16:00:00
This week, on the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events . . . click images for larger viewTomorrow, Tuesday the 12th, begins with the Chicago ACE Mentor Program Lunch, and ends at the Block Museum in Evanston with Dirk Lohan talking about his grandfather's Mies van der Rohe's Legacy and the Chicago Skyline. Wednesday, the 13th, lunchtime at CAF, Joe Burns …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-10 17:57:00
News: ripped from the headlines! (of items in my inbox). . . Graham Foundation - Grants to Organizations Application Deadline is February 25th. Last year, the Graham ladled out $400,000 to over 40 projects by organizations, and they're at it again. The first step is submitting an Inquiry Form. Details here. Society of Architectural Historians Mellon Author Awards - The Andrew …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-09 15:06:00
click images for larger view We knew it when it was just a ring.Almost as soon as it was unveiled in 2004, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, a/k/a Da Bean, not only became the centerpiece of the new Millennium Park, but it quickly took its place along with the Water Tower and Marina City as one of the most universally recognizable symbols of …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-08 20:01:00
Hear me out. In November, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks was presented with a report calling on them to rescind the preliminary landmark designation they had givenChristopher ReedBertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital earlier in the same meeting. Then, the Commission had voted unanimously to designate Prentice. Only minutes later, all of those same commissioners completely reversed course and voted to de-designate. All …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-08 00:31:00
from left: Rafael Leon, Ernest Wong, Andrew Mooney, James HoulianThursday's monthly meeting of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, dominated by the battle to save Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital, was an shared exercise in the theater of the absurd. Across nearly four hours of testimony from dozens of speakers on both sides, Commissioners pretended to be considering the testimony of the preservationists, …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-07 17:31:00
click image for larger view.Just a quick reminder that the Commission on Chicago Landmarks will again be considering the issue of landmarking Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital at their regular monthly meeting today. To put it honestly, if cynically, the Commission will vote a second time to rescind the preliminary landmark designation it granted in December in the expectation it will provide enough …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-07 17:18:00
construction of Wabash-State segment of Chicago River Walk More details emerged Wednesday on the plans for Phase II of the Chicago River Walk. At a public meeting at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Chicago Department of Transportation Project Manager Michelle Woods offered a presentation - which she promised would soon be on line - and she was joined by architect Carol Ross …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-06 18:07:00
The Cove, south bank, Dearborn to Clark (click images for larger view)Tonight, Wednesday February 6th, the Chicago Department of Transportation is holding a public meeting to formally present plans for the completion of the Chicago Riverwalk. The session will be at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. A funny thing happened when they rebuilt the …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-05 17:05:00
Buffalo lost: Erie Savings Bank (click images for larger view)There are a number of parallels between Buffalo and Chicago. Buffalo was in incorporated in 1832, Chicago 1837. Chicago's fortune was made by the railroads and Lake Michigan; Buffalo by the railroads and the Erie Canal. Both were boom towns in the closing decades of the 19th century. Both reached their maximum …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-04 14:07:00
It's only the first Monday in the month and already have half a dozen new items on the February Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events. click images for larger viewFor Tuesday, the 26th, we've added an intriguing new event, Democracy and the Built Environment, with Peter Onuf and Marshall Brown, at the Koolhaas McCormick Campus Center at IIT , while on Wednesday …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-02 16:03:00
For today, links to a selection of our interviews and encounters with architects down through the years. Most of them are from a while back. In some cases, they're from a time before a young architect's most famous buildings came into being. In others, they show a seasoned architect at the time of the opening of a major project. Whatever the …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-02-01 18:23:00
click images for larger view - photograph courtesy MVRDVSo, a Dutchman walks into a Lego store and says to the clerk, ?I'd like a million and a half Legos, please. Just white ones, no offense intended. And can you help me to the car??This is probably not how it all came down when MVRDV and The Why Factory collaborated with the …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-31 15:01:00
Oh, yeah, grab your Valentine (hey! - not there) - it's the February Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events.click images for larger viewFebruary starts off with Wiel Arets talking about his book Autobiographical References at the Graham on Friday the 1st, while Saturday the 2nd, Clare Lyster leads the second Archi-Salon - System Synergy at the Art Institute in conjunction with the …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-30 01:00:00
There is really nothing like this site in the world, certainly not in Chicago. It's pivotal. It's central It's waiting for its moment in history - architect Fred W. Clarke click images for larger view As the light of dawn seeped through the shutters of his small, lonely cabin, John Kinzie, Chicago's first permanent settler, arose one morning with a sense of …
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