Baha'i Temple in
Wilmette
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In Chicago, a
host of sacred spaces
Washington Post
The
former created a tabula rasa for new architectural
structures - and an urgent need for their construction - and
the latter showcased Chicago's openness ...
Reflective
giants: Chicago's building boom, now nearing its end, has
layered a ...
Chicago Tribune (blog)
The
glass giants “are a real complement to the skyline,” said
Pauline Saliga, executive director of the Chicago-based
Society of Architectural Historians ...
Architecture
Capital? What we'll lose if we lose our mid-century ...
NewCity.com
Preservation Chicago, a nonprofit organization that
advocates for the conservation of historic architecture in
Chicago, hopes Prentice will remind ...
Ebert on
Architecture: Two Thumbs Down
ChicagoNow (blog)
A
second problem with Ebert's conclusion is that he uses the
University of Chicago campus buildings as a counterexample
to the International Style's failing ...
Beyond the
Arch: St. Louis offers a multitude of architectural
pleasures ...
Chicago Tribune (blog)
While
the city does not rank with Chicago or New York as an
architectural mecca, she added, “there's a tremendous amount
to see. ...
Shaping the
City: Let there be light (carefully) in Metro stations
Washington Post
The
Washington area is blessed with one of the world's most
aesthetically memorable subway systems, designed by the late
Chicago-based architect Harry Weese ...
When Less Was
More
New York Times (blog)
...
van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect A Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe floor plan for a 860/880 Lake Shore Drive
apartment building in Chicago, 1951. ...
Mad Men's new
home: Still very 60s modern, but no longer truly 'Mad'
Chicago Tribune (blog)
The
architect, Wallace Harrrison of Harrison, Abramovitz &
Harris, was no slouch, but he wasn't in the same league as
Chicago's Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, ...
"Compared to
Palladio, we are Muppets.”
By twleslie
| architecturefarm.wordpress.com
Weese
was Chicago's Louis Kahn–a passionate iconoclast who
designed outstanding buildings while leading a personal life
that was disastrous. This post's title is one of his more
printable reflections on the state of Chicago Architecture
...
Chicago's
Structural Advantages ...
By The
Urbanophile
If
Chicago wants to be a world class city, it needs a world
class airport, and whatever the architectural merits of
Helmut Jahn's United Terminal (which I like), O'Hare just
isn't it. The city needs to replace its entire terminal ...
A better
big-box: New Target at Wilson Yard hits the mark, but rest
of city ...
Chicago
Tribune (blog)
This
frontier, it should be noted, is a place of robust
architectural character. Within steps of Wilson Yard is a
cornucopia of design riches, ...
A fresh take
on Chicago
Minneapolis Star
Tribune
A mile
north, through Hyde Park's mixture of leafy trees and crisp
brick architecture, sits a century-old testament to both
Chicago's genius and its ...
The blind spot
in Vanity Fair's world architecture survey
Chicago
Tribune (blog)
Renzo
Piano has done it at his California Academy of Sciences,
just as Jeanne Gang has done it at Chicago's Aqua and Norman
Foster has done it at London's ...
Ebert Gives
Modernism Two Thumbs Down
Architect's Newspaper Blog
Ebert
goes on to bemoan the loss of character in Chicago and
beyond, in buildings new and old. “Remember a deli, with its
neon signs, its daily prices, its sausages and cheeses and
displays of pop and wine in the window. Now it has been
defaced and replaced ... Surely it can't all be bad, much as
Ebert seems to be remembering the past a little too fondly,
as there has been the good and the bad
On the Life
and Work of Chicago Architect Harry Weese
Chicago Magazine | Chicagomag.com
RECONSTRUCTING HARRY WEESE: At his peak in the sixties and
seventies, Harry Weese was arguably Chicago's preeminent
architect, a visionary whose ideas ...
An eye on
architectural photography; School of Art Institute show
opening tomorrow
Chicago Tribune (blog)
It's
being mounted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
and features work by students in the school's summer
architectural photography class. ...
Architecture in the Age of Gehry
Vanity Fair
(He received four additional votes for three other projects:
the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles; Millennium
Park, in Chicago; and his house in ...
6 Daredevil
Attempts to Climb Chicago's Skyscrapers
ChicagoNow (blog)
In
researching yesterday's post about little-known
architectural facts about Chicago, I came across blurbs
about daredevils who have climbed Chicago's ...
Chicago-based Architect
Grahm Balkany
Discusses Preservation
Examiner.com
Grahm
Balkany is a Chicago-based architect who has done a lot of
work in the architectural preservation field. Recently I
spoke with Balkany about his ...
Developers
turn malls into Main Streets
Chicago Tribune
...
architectural blandness. “My biggest concern is that it all
comes off flat and monotonous,” said Griebenow, a dam
inspector who doubles as a Chicago ...
'Masterpieces'
on hold, waiting for better times
CNN
...
cities the past four years -- buildings, like the Aqua
skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, that attest to the
creativity of 21st-century architecture. ...
Art Institute
spotlights photographers who put Louis ...
Chicago Tribune (blog)
...
Architecture Gallery 24 through Dec. 12. A companion show,
“Louis Sullivan's Idea,” opens June 26 at the Chicago
Cultural Center and runs through Nov. ...
Wrigleyville
project is no mall invasion; foes' worst fears are
unfounded, but ...
Chicago Tribune (blog)
But
nor is it a particularly compelling work of architecture. It
looks like many a project that has gone through an extensive
public review process, ...
On Leong
Merchants Association Building « BLUEPRINT: Chicago
By Caroline Nye
Completed in 1928, The On Leong Merchants Association
Building was designed by the Chicago based architectural
firm of Michaelsen and Rognstad. Having two architects of
Norwegian descent design a Chinese business and cultural
center ...
Frank Gehry
Calls Sustainable Design “Political”
Inhabitat (blog)
When
asked about energy-saving green architecture and global
warming, the architect did not exactly warm to the topic. “I
think the issue is finally a ...
Balcony wars: As the great building booms ends, Chicago
architects finally ...
Chicago Tribune (blog)
The balcony has long presented an architectural
conundrum: It's a great way to sell real estate, but an
annoying appendage that mucks up a building's ...
A Banner Year for Piano's Modern Wing in Chicago --
Architecture ...
architectural record
Museum of Contemporary Art curator Dominic
Molon has seen a lot of impressive art and architecture.
Dogfight over
'doggie in the window' building; debate erupts over how to
...
Cityscapes
Chicago Tribune (blog)
A
fascinating little architectural dogfight is shaping up over
the future of Chicago's "doggy in the window" building,
architect Stanley Tigerman's ...
High hopes and
a developer laid low--7 South ...
Cityscapes
Chicago Tribune (blog)
It was
the Chicago Spire of the late 1990s, a supertall,
super-skinny tower that never materialized despite all the
hype surrounding it. Chicago architect Adrian Smith, then
with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, designed the 2000-footer,
...
A treasure
trove of Frank Lloyd Wright
Edmonton Journal
... 15
years on Sullivan and a bucketful of fame when the younger
architect finished the Patterson Bridge design and made a
beeline for Oak Park, Chicago, ...
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