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Form Follows
Function, Elegantly
Wall Street Journal
The Auditorium Building would have been demolished but for
its fortress-like architecture. Estimates for demolition
during the early 1930s amounted to more ...
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preview: Architecture
The Skyline - Chicago
Originally designed by Chicago architect Andrew Rebori, the
chapel was completed in 1939. Its new pipe organ is to be
installed by early October. ...
AAA winners
World Architecture News -
London, UK
The cream of world architecture projects from architects
with offices in the United States of America have been
unveiled. The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of ...
Pappageorge,
Haymes transforming the city
The Skyline-Chicago
And hopefully they’ll live up to that potential,” added
Chicago architect Laurence Booth. This fall, Pappageorge and
Haymes will complete two major condo ...
Star power
Chicago Tribune
...
as he watched the Chicago Air and Water Show from his
floor-to-ceiling, living-room windows. "I like modern
architecture with natural materials. ...
Architecture
new Olympic competition
The Ranger - San Antonio, TX
In the running as host city for the 2016 Games are Chicago;
Tokyo; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Madrid, Spain.
Kinesiology Professor Leslie Bleamaster ...
The House that
Sausage Built Bruce Aidells builds the ultimate ...
San Francisco Chronicle
... and opened their architecture practice in 1894. On their
way to California, they had visited the World's Columbian
Exposition in Chicago, ...
People Who
Live in Glass Houses
Wall Street Journal Blogs
Rick
LaBelle bought a downtown Chicago condo in October that came
with sweeping views of Lake Michigan -- and of the hotel
across the street. ...
Architect
Michelle Kaufmann Chicago's Smart Home Designer Sees Green
MarketWatch
By
Rachel Koning Beals CHICAGO -- Oakland, Calif.-based
architect Michelle Kaufmann, a green designer with a big
following, ...
Dazzling
designs: New towers, mid-rises represent the cream of the
...
By Phil Berger
The new millennium has been a good time for residential
architecture in Chicago. After decades of banality, dictated
either by developers’ notions of marketability or stagnation
within the architecture community, the streetscape has ...
New Homes Magazine - http://yochicago.com/magazine
Architectural
Styles: Arts & Crafts
Old-House Journal
The Prairie School architects of Chicago—including Purcell
and Elmslie, George Maher, Walter Burley Griffin, and Marion
Mahoney (only lately given her due ...
The Turnaround Artist: Chicago
Architect Laurence Booth
By Robert
Sharoff | Chicago Magazine
For
years, Laurence Booth, one of the city's most widely
acclaimed architects, championed low-scale buildings and
decried "antihuman" high-rises. Now he has designed three
towers and has a fourth under construction. Why? "We have to
make some huge changes in this country," he says.
Problems for
Calatrava museum in Milwaukee; public housing museum ...
Blair Kamin
Architecture lives and dies by how well clients treat it.
We're seeing two reminders of that truism playing out in
very different settings--one an art museum in Milwaukee, the
other a proposed public housing museum in Chicago. ...
A lesson in
Olympics economics, architecture and history
Chicago Tribune
That said, I really wanted to check out the spectacular
National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, given that
Chicago may end up building its own Olympic ...
The Adelphi block has all the
hallmarks we associate with the Chicago style of
architecture
Peterborough Examiner - Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
The
Chicago style of architecture is characterized by clear-cut
vertical pillars, and then lots of windows between these
pillars. ...
International
Herald Tribune - France
He explains the buildings' architectural features as
responses to geography, geology and climate and is consumed
by the notion of making supertall buildings ...
Factory-built homes may be greener
Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA
His architectural firm is displaying its Cellophane House
modular home as part of the MoMA exhibition “Home Delivery:
Fabricating the Modern Dwelling,” ...
Sullivan Goulette-designed Residence or Church?
Yo Chicago
As far as architectural style is concerned,
Burling Place at 1727 N Burling St in Lincoln Park is one
that people seem to love or, well, really not love.
Public housing museum plan moving
ahead
Chicago Tribune
Architectural details, such as streamlined porches,
relieved the austere aesthetic. Along with a courtyard that
allowed many parents to watch their children ...
Holy heater! A steamy 'Knight'
Chicago Sun-Times
There's a multilayer element to the city's architecture
that's so right for Gotham City. ... I really feel
Chicago is underused in filmmaking in general. ...
Architecture buffs strike gold on Maywood home tour
Chicago Tribune
By Joseph Ruzich | Special to the Chicago Tribune When Tom
Kus visited a Queen Anne-style house that was for sale eight
years ago in Maywood, ...
Batman leaves trail of destruction in Chicago
Reuters - USA
"When people choose to stylize a city, they draw from one
particular age of architecture, which for us didn't make
sense. Real cities have a tremendous mix ...
'Dark
Knight' showcases impressive Chicago architecture
Naperville Sun - Naperville, IL
"The Chicago architecture is phenomenal," production
designer Nathan Crowley said in the press notes. "All of the
great architects of the last century have ...
Robert AM Stern, designer of Chicago's bus shelters
and other ...
By Tempo
Stern's catalog of work in Chicago is small but
pervasive: The bus shelters, newsracks, newstands and other
classically-inspired "street furniture" found everywhere
around town. He's also the architect for the planned
George W. ...
Majestic architecture makes Chicago a WINDY WONDERLAND
The News-Press - Fort Myers, FL
In May, with an adult's enthusiasm for much bigger
architecture, I visited Chicago for the first time in years.
From its smallest buildings to its tallest, ...
Why in Chicago
Chicago Daily Observer
Increasingly, travelers talk of experiencing at least a
grudging respect for Chicago architecture, its parks, the
people’s openness and directness, ...
Eero Saarinen's law school at the
U. of C. expertly recycled
Chicago Tribune
The modern building deftly relates to the campus' neo-Gothic
architecture without imitating it. The centerpiece, a
six-story, concrete-framed library, ...
A restoration drama
Chicago Tribune
The Boston architectural firm of Shepley Rutan and Coolidge,
which had just completed the Art Institute of Chicago, won
the competition to do the library. ...
New exhibit challenges our ideas
about 'green'
Chicago Sun-Times
A new exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, "Green
with Desire: Can We Live Sustainably in Our Homes?" explores
how homes determine the quality of ...
History's on their side
Chicago Tribune
... to the Chicago Tribune Restoring his Kenwood home to its
"original grandeur" was rewarding for Daniel Aucunas, who
retained the quality architecture and ...
Chicago ranks first in architecture and design, according to
study
Chicago Tribune
... 2008) — Chicago is the best city for architecture and
design according to an independent study conducted by one of
the world’s leading architectural ...
The Best US Cities, by Design
BusinessWeek
Schubert also cited Chicago's long history of architectural
innovation and its reputation for being design-oriented as
further reasons it took the top slot. ...
Mile-high tower wars: How tall is
too tall?
Independent - London, England, UK
George
Efstathiou, a managing partner at the architectural firm
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, declares that "the age of the
super-skyscrapers is starting ...
Jeanne Gang: The Art of Nesting
Metropolis Magazine - New York,
NY
It will also be one of the greenest and most appealing tall
buildings in a place that has produced some of the country’s
best architecture. ...
Wright's 'shining brow'
Crain's Chicago Business
"I was completely blown away," says Mr. Fried, president of
37signals LLC, a software design company in Chicago. Beyond
the architect's attention to detail, ...
See-through
house opens to the public
Crain's Chicago Business
"They're the architectural paparazzi," says Whitney French,
the historic site director at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's
glass-and-steel house that's been a ...
He pushed limits of architecture
Chicago Tribune
By Blair Kamin | Tribune critic Walter A. Netsch Jr., the
maverick, strong-willed Chicago architect whose
geometrically complex buildings, including the ..
What role does architecture serve in houses of worship?
Chicago Tribune
Does belief shape architecture? Kate Maehr, executive
director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, wrote in
her blog that she was overcome when she ...
An exclusive look inside the Art Institute's new wing with
the ...
Chicago Tribune
"This could only be in Chicago," said the building's
Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect, Renzo
Piano, during a recent tour, as if to counter ...
Scraping the Sky, and Then Some
New York Times
Icons like the Empire State Building in New York and the
Sears Tower in Chicago, which have long been
enshrined among the tallest buildings in the world, ...
Chicago Cultural Center: A Historic Landmark
Gather.com - Boston
... in Chicago but also the historic architecture that
serves as a backdrop to everything that makes up this
wonderfully diverse and culturally adept city. ...
How Trump Tower opened while still adding on floors
By Tempo
"As far as we know, it's the largest building under
construction while part of it is open," says Pauline Saliga,
director of the Chicago-based Society of Architectural
Historians. "The Blue Cross-Blue Shield building [now being
...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/
Modernist marvels: A worldwide tour of architecture's spare
structures
USA Today
The early-20th century American Modernists also have a
strong presence in Chicago, described as "the first city of
American architecture" by Dr. Greg BC ...
Chicago district evokes blue-collar history
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,
UT
All this was part of the plan by architect Solon Spencer
Beman, who was just 27 when Pullman hired him to design not
just a community but a lifestyle. ...
Certain houses exert special pull on buyers
Crain's Chicago Business
When he moved on to his own apartments, he sought similar
architectural details such as wood floors, woodwork or
built-ins. "You look at something built in ...
Communities keep 'em down on the ranch
Chicago Tribune
"About 99 percent of the homes we sell at our Del Webb
projects are ranches," said Sean Degen, national vice
president of architectural services at Pulte ...
Re-Sampling Ornament, Basel
Wallpaper.com
London, UK
Of course architectural styles over the centuries have
varied markedly along the form-function spectrum and
decoration or ornament in architecture is one of ...
Catalog castles: How mail-order homes helped transform Lake
Geneva ...
By Dan Plutchak, editor
... clubs and architectural associations, and has been
featured in many local newspapers and television newscasts.
Hunter was hired by the city of Elgin to document Sears
homes in their municipality, as well as West Chicago, ...
Walworth County News of The Week - http://www.theweekextra.com/news/
Building Big:
Chicago architecture draws visitors from all over the world
Reading Eagle - Reading, PA
The city’s rise in the world of architecture began after the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed swaths of buildings,
and the late 19th century saw the ...
Chicago architects feeling the pain of economic downturn
By Tempo
But there are dark clouds on the horizon, none more ominous
than the Architecture Billings Index, a survey of the market
for architectural services compiled by the Washington,
DC-based American Institute of Architects. ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/
What’s that in the Sky? A Bird? A Plane? Renzo Piano’s
Addition to ...
By thebram31
An admittedly much better photo from the Chicago Tribune, by
an unknown photographer. Perhaps they weren’t using a camera
phone, taking pictures at night, in the rain. More Chicago
architecture news to come.
The Chicago Art Blog - http://thechicagoartblog.wordpress.com
Trump Tower promises new opportunities, but underscores old
divisions
Medill Reports - Chicago
by Renita D. Young Local Architects who teach at the
Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture say
Trump Tower Chicago has a strong structure, ...
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