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The LaSalle Street financial district and a cluster of bungalows in the South Side neighborhood of Auburn Gresham have been recommended for listing on the National Register of Historic Places, state officials said Friday. A news release follows: SPRINGFIELD ? Two historic districts in Chicago were among several properties recommended for listing in the National Register of Historic Places during the …
The Skyline 2012-07-05 22:01:00
Looking for the Richard Nickels of tomorrow? Maybe you'll find one at a photo exhibition that opens Friday (July 6). "Imaging Mass & Space: Architectural Photography 2012" features work by students in the School of the Art Institute's summer architectural photography class. It was taught by Kirk Gittings and Timothy Wittman. The show is at the Chicago Arts District Gallery, 1932 S. Halsted St. There's a …
The Skyline 2012-07-05 11:39:30
Tuesday's column about a plan to redevelop the historic Rosenwald Apartments drew a strong response from some neighbors who oppose the plan in its current form. Among their criticisms: The project would bring too many low-income families to the Bronzeville neighborhood, which already has a high concentration of low-income and public housing, they say. The neighbors will seek to delay next Tuesday's vote by the city's Community Development Commission on tax-increment financing for the …
The Skyline 2012-07-04 13:27:07
From today's print edition By Dawn Rhodes Chicago Tribune reporter When vandals ripped 56 of the 72 bronze letters from the facade of historic Unity Temple in Oak Park, the church and its preservationists faced a monumental challenge as they set out to re-create a critical feature of the Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.There was little documentation to indicate what kind of …
The Skyline 2012-07-03 09:07:51
The singer Nat "King" Cole lived there, as did the poet Gwendolyn Brooks and the music producer Quincy Jones. But the blocklong hulk with the boarded-up windows at Michigan Avenue and 47th Street is more than the former home of legendary African-Americans. Gaze beyond its surface wear and tear, you'd see a monument to an enlightened era, long before the words …
The Skyline 2012-07-02 09:45:15
In their fight to save old Prentice Women's Hospital from demolition, historic preservationists are turning to an old adage: There's strength in numbers. A letter from Stephanie K. Meeks, president of the Washington-based National Trust for Historic Preservation, says the group is trying to get the signatures of 25,000 Chicago-area residents on a "Save Prentice" petition it will present to Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "Time is running out for …
The Skyline 2012-07-02 08:23:48
Is a bright future finally in store for one of Chicago's most noble experiments in affordable housing? The Rosenwald Apartments in the 4600 block of South Michigan Ave., endowed by Sears, Roebuck & Co. president Julius Rosenwald and designed by his nephew Ernest Grunsfeld, Jr. (whose credits include the Adler Planetarium), drew inspiration from the great Viennese municipal housing (like Karl-Marx-Hof) built after the First World War. …
The Skyline 2012-06-27 06:52:02
From Sunday's print edition Battered by the recession and the downturn in the housing market, Chicago architect Lucien Lagrange liquidated his namesake firm in 2010. Yet Lagrange and his tradition-tinged buildings are still with us. The latest, the 40-story Ritz-Carlton Residences at the northwest corner of North Michigan Avenue and Erie Street, is too competent to be bad but not inspired …
The Skyline 2012-06-24 05:28:35
From today's print edition By Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune reporter Not only do prophets lack honor in their native land, some don't do much for real estate values ? at least to judge by Walt Disney's childhood home on Chicago's Northwest Side.On the market for more than a year, it offers prospective buyers a two-flat with new windows, hardwood floors and …
The Skyline 2012-06-21 22:01:00
Two soon-to-open exhibitions of note: 1) "Wright's Roots," an exploration of Frank Lloyd Wright's early years in Chicago, makes it debut Friday (June 22) at Expo 72, 72 E. Randolph St. It's a look at Wright's buildings in Chicago before 1897, revealing how the architect who called himself "Frank L. Wright" tried to find his aesthetic voice. The curator is Tim Samuelson, Chicago's cultural historian. 2) "Skyscraper: Art and Architecture …
The Skyline 2012-06-21 14:44:46
Frank Gehry's controversial design for the Eisenhower Memorial has received another setback: A House subcommittee has proposed cutting off fiscal 2013 funds for the commission that seeks to build the memorial. Last month, Ike's granddaughter, Susan Eisenhower, attacked the plan. Roll Call has the full story.
The Skyline 2012-06-20 13:44:19
From tomorrow's print edition Here?s the good news about the newly opened Museum of Broadcast Communications: It?s transformed an eyesore parking garage into a respectable modernist design that plays a respectful supporting role to such nearby architectural stars as Marina City and its twin corncobs. Now here?s the bad news about the $27 million building at 360 N. State St.: It?s …
The Skyline 2012-06-19 13:05:50
A house with a spiral ramp, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for one of his sons and built at the time the architect was developing plans for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, is at the heart of a historic preservation battle unfolding in Phoenix. The two-level Gladys and David Wright home (above), completed in 1952 and circular in plan, is reached by an outdoor ramp that leads …
The Skyline 2012-06-18 07:56:00
Reader Jacqueline Kotz of Chicago takes issue with my praise of the Crown Sky Garden in my review of the new Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: Blair Kamin's article, "Comfort From Within" (Chicago Tribune 6/10/12), describes the Crown Sky Garden at the new Children's Hospital of Chicago as a "healing garden". Having gained certification from the Chicago Botanic Garden's Healthcare …
The Skyline 2012-06-15 07:08:54
Architect Helmut Jahn has been named the winner of a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award, named for the council's founder, has previously gone to architects Norman Foster, Cesar Pelli, William Pedersen and Adrian Smith of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Smith was last year's winner. Jahn, who heads the Chicago-based firm …
The Skyline 2012-06-15 06:26:56
Is John Portman a hero or a villain, a visionary whose jazzy, spatially dramatic hotel atriums helped revitalize American downtowns or an anti-urban architect whose inward-turning buildings turned their backs on city streets? I suspect that a new documentary about Portman, which will air on WTTW-Ch. 11 on Sunday, July 8 at 2 p.m., will take the former tack. Titled "John Portman: A Life of Building," the documentary is directed by award-winning producer …
The Skyline 2012-06-12 22:01:00
The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois announced the winners of its annual awards last week. Among the honorees: the vertical expansion of the 300 E. Randolph high-rise. The full news release follows: The SEAOI (Structural Engineers Association of Illinois) announced the 2012 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award winners during its Annual Banquet which was held on June 9, 2012. The event was held …
The Skyline 2012-06-12 08:39:28
The Museum of Broadcast Communications, a retrofit of an old parking garage by Chicago architects Eckenhoff Saunders, re-opens to the public Wednesday in its new home in River North, just north of Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City and just west of SOM's Trump Tower. Tribune reporter Heather Gillis assesses here whether the project has lived up to the promise of its $6 million state jobs grant. …
The Skyline 2012-06-07 22:01:00
From Sunday's print edition The architecture of the new Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago works best where it should work best ? on the inside, where the charge was to promote the healing of vulnerable young patients and raise their spirits, those of their families and those taking care of them. The hospital's exterior is ungainly and ill-proportioned, …
The Skyline 2012-06-07 13:27:27
Modernist urban renewal projects are typically derided for destroying the architectural and social fabric of city neighborhoods. But another view will be aired, starting tonight (Thursday), courtesy of the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The society is presenting an exhibition about Lafayette Park, Mies' Detroit urban renewal project. A flyer for the show asserts that the project was "a space-effective and cost-effective dwelling designed to keep …
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