|
||
| Contents/RSS | ||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
|
ArchitectureWeek Blog Center
live stories around the architectural blogosphere...
View by Most Recent Favorites (most likes) Most Viewed
ArchWeek Blog Center Home
Featured Blogs
Show All Blogs
Suggest a Blog
Featured Blogs
adaptiveresue.net
AECbytes Blog
African Architecture and Design
AIA Archiblog
anArchitecture
Architecture.MNP
ArchitectureChicago PLUS
ArchitectureWeek DesignCommunity
ArchitectureWeek People and Places
Architect\'s Desktop
ArchWeek Tweets
Art City
B2B @ FolioMag
BIM Thinkspace
BLDG BLOG
blog nauseam
Brand Avenue
Building Product Marketing
Christopher Hume
Cityscapes
Climate Feedback
Climate Progress
Contemporist
Critique This
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture
Curbed New York - Architecture
Curbed New York - The Corner
Curbed San Francisco - Architecture
Daily Dose of Architecture
Deputy Dog
designboston
Developments - WSJ
Eye Candy
Fine Homebuilding
Green Inc.
Green Options
Green Workplace
AECbytes Blog
African Architecture and Design
AIA Archiblog
anArchitecture
Architecture.MNP
ArchitectureChicago PLUS
ArchitectureWeek DesignCommunity
ArchitectureWeek People and Places
Architect\'s Desktop
ArchWeek Tweets
Art City
B2B @ FolioMag
BIM Thinkspace
BLDG BLOG
blog nauseam
Brand Avenue
Building Product Marketing
Christopher Hume
Cityscapes
Climate Feedback
Climate Progress
Contemporist
Critique This
Curbed Los Angeles - Architecture
Curbed New York - Architecture
Curbed New York - The Corner
Curbed San Francisco - Architecture
Daily Dose of Architecture
Deputy Dog
designboston
Developments - WSJ
Eye Candy
Fine Homebuilding
Green Inc.
Green Options
Green Workplace
Greendistrict
HOK BIM Solutions
HOK CAD Solutions
Intellectual Design Means Focus...
Life Without Buildings
Lloyd's Blog
Media Matters - Global Warming
Meta Efficient
Mister Buckminster
NAR Press Room
Next American City
Passive House Blog
Placemaking Blog
Planetizen Interchange
Plataforma Arquitectura (in Spanish)
Portland Architecture
Pruned
Pushing the Building Envelope
Real Life LEED
RIBA News
RMI Outlet
Root Design Build
Scottish Architecture
StreetsBlog.net
The Atlantic Cities
The Dirt
The Skyline
things magazine
Tiny Buildings
Triple Pundit
Tropolism
Unbeige
Vermont Architect
WebUrbanist
Where
World Changing
WorldCAD Access
HOK BIM Solutions
HOK CAD Solutions
Intellectual Design Means Focus...
Life Without Buildings
Lloyd's Blog
Media Matters - Global Warming
Meta Efficient
Mister Buckminster
NAR Press Room
Next American City
Passive House Blog
Placemaking Blog
Planetizen Interchange
Plataforma Arquitectura (in Spanish)
Portland Architecture
Pruned
Pushing the Building Envelope
Real Life LEED
RIBA News
RMI Outlet
Root Design Build
Scottish Architecture
StreetsBlog.net
The Atlantic Cities
The Dirt
The Skyline
things magazine
Tiny Buildings
Triple Pundit
Tropolism
Unbeige
Vermont Architect
WebUrbanist
Where
World Changing
WorldCAD Access
Show All Blogs
Suggest a Blog
click images for larger view (highly recommended)It was if a black-and-white photograph had somehow been inserted into the normal color cityscape.Last night, the century-old warehouse in Chicago's Central Manufacturing District was destroyed in a 5-alarm blaze that had 170 firefighters - a third of the city's entire on-duty contingent - battling in near-zero degree temperatures.With the return of daylight, the brick …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-26 15:47:00
click images for larger viewSince people have a lot better things to do on the weekend than spend it on the Internet, we're starting a new Retro Saturday series looking back to some of our original pieces.This coming summer will be the 9th anniversary of the opening of Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion. Millennium Park has become such an integral park of …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-27 18:00:00
click images for larger viewAs I've written before, most people think that the job of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks is to safeguard Chicago's precious architectural legacy, and if you look at its long history and list of protected landmarks, as well as the outstanding work done, day in and day out, by the Commission's superb staff, you could be forgiven …
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 2013-02-14 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 2013-02-13 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 2013-02-15 17:01:00
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 2013-02-10 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 2013-02-01 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 2013-01-17 22:09:00
When you look at a vacant lot, do you see beyond the emptiness? Architecture For Humanity/Chicago is posing that challenge in its Activate! Temporary Public Space Design Competition.The American city is rooted in its neighborhoods, public spaces, and infrastructure. Transforming the interstitial open spaces that characterize our cities can be a fundamental catalyst for community connectivity and socialization . . . …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-23 04:25:00
click images for larger viewChicago's Central Manufacturing District has a claim on being the world's first real industrial park. Until about ten years ago, it was home to the William Wrigley factories. Constructed in the early years of the 20th century, the factories were gradually abandoned by their original owners. Some have found new tenants. Others, like the warehouse at 37th and …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-20 15:14:00
Yes, it's never too late to add another great item to the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.Case in point: this Wednesday, January 23rd, the University of Michigan's Robert Fishman will take on the myth of the paucity of national planning in the United States, at the Great Cities Institute. Earlier, at lunchtime at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Architecture for Humanity/Chicago's Katherine …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-18 11:55:00
click images for larger viewNo, the tenants of gently-curving, 1923 Alfred Alschuler London Guarantee Building at Wacker and Michigan haven't turned into recluses. They've simply disappeared. The small samples of lit windows in the facades are the offices of the last hold-outs. As reported by Crain's Chicago Business, the building's New York owner Joseph Chetrit has been emptying out London Guarantee …
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 2013-01-22 18:04:00
click images for larger viewWolf Point tomorrow, possibly, probably . . .
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-25 17:20:00
click images for larger view (renderings courtesy Hicks Architectural Group)We've written a couple times of the potential of the much-maligned Illinois Center, the assembly of Mies van der Rohe-styled skyscrapers bunkered off of the Mag Mile.The complex includes a claustrophobic retail concourse at street level, and a large - and underused - open plaza above. Part of the underuse is intentional. …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-28 23:41:00
click image for larger viewThe 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, is celebrated by the Jane Austen Society of North America (Chicago Chapter) with an all-day reading in the pedway of Block 37.
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 2013-01-24 19:36:00
The extremely talented Chicago-based architect Doug Garofalo died too young at 53, in August of 2011, after a long illness.To honor his memory, the school where he taught, the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has created the Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship, and is currently taking applications, through February 28th, from prospective applicants.. . . this newly …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-29 09:03:00
click image for larger view
Next Page
Special thanks to our sustaining subscribers, including Building Design UK, Building Design News UK, and Building Design Tenders UK.
