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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 …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-29 09:03:00
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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 2013-01-27 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 2013-01-26 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 2013-01-25 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 2013-01-24 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 2013-01-23 21:58:00
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 2013-01-23 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 2013-01-22 18:04:00
click images for larger viewWolf Point tomorrow, possibly, probably . . .
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 2013-01-17 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 2013-01-16 04:04:00
click images for larger viewIt was proclaimed "the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop" at its 1985 opening, but the James R. Thompson Center has also always been the building people love to hate. And for some, it's not enough just to hate: there has to be revenge. If they can't make it into a bordello, they'll settle for …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-15 23:47:00
The Art Institute of Chicago has announced the appointment of Judith Russi Kirshner . . . photograph: Charlie Dietzas the museum's new Deputy Director for Education and Woman's Board Endowed Chair following a national search. In this newly created position, Kirshner will evaluate all of the museum's educational efforts, collaborations, and partnership programs, and work across the museum and the city …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-15 18:18:00
click images for larger viewIt was proclaimed "the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop" at its 1985 opening, but the James R. Thompson Center has also always been the building people love to hate. And for some, it's not enough just to hate: there has to be revenge. If they can't make it into a bordello, they'll settle for …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-14 20:17:00
click images for larger viewI just came back from taking pictures of the James R. Thompson Center (and getting a flu shot at Walgreens) and find myself still in the midst of writing a piece on the history of the building and the proposal to turn it into a casino. (Had to do something with all that research I did for …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-13 02:59:00
Yes, we're still adding great new items to the January Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events.This Wednesday, January 16th at the Graham, professor and author Esra Akcan will be talking about about News from the Living Room: Storytelling and Participatory Architectural Writing, exploring the International Building Exhibition that commissioned designs for public housing from architects from Aldo Rossi to Rem Koolhaas to …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-11 19:03:00
Lizzie Schiffman of DNAinfo.comChicago is reporting that Cook County Circuit Judge Neil Cohen has dismissed Landmarks Illinois' lawsuit against the Commission on Chicago Landmarks for revoking preliminary landmarks status for Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital only minutes after it unanimously voted for it. Micah Maidenberg reports in Crain's Chicago Business that Cohen cited a previous Supreme Court decision as stopping him from …
ArchitectureChicago PLUS 2013-01-11 16:06:00
Before there was Art, there was Religion. When its new, $625,000 building opened on May 1, 1893, the Art Institute of Chicago continued to do business at the building across the street, at Van Buren and Michigan, that Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root designed for them little more than a decade before.During the course of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, …
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