Category: Architecture, design
Designers' top Web sites for home decor
Our pal Elizabeth Blackwell offers insight into the exploding world of home-decor Web sites with a story in today's Wall Street Journal. Online sales [...]
House of many gables rising in Ravenswood Manor
We noticed this showy little number going up in Ravenswood Manor, at Leland and Virginia, on the Chicago River. The builder, Orren Pickell, is known [...]
Two 12-story condo towers coming to West Loop
Twelve stories might not seem so tall given the vertical building boom underway downtown, but for the West Loop, it's nose-bleed development. Emeral [...]
Demeter back with Aspen 6 condos in Bucktown
We noticed Aspen 6 because the name sounded a little silly (boy band from Colorado, bandits on skis, rich snow bunny with fading looks?). Then we no [...]
Let there be light at South Loop highrise Vetro
We're intrigued by the design of the units at the upcoming South Loop project Vetro. Architect and developer Roszak/ADC has taken inspiration from the [...]
The VOCAL activist preservationists love to hate
Dee Grant has become the activist that preservationists love to hate. Chicago Magazine raised her profile this month with a feature about Grant and he [...]
First-floor suites not just for oldsters
It's not just older home buyers who want master suites on the first floor, according to Concord Homes, a subsidiary of Lennar Corp. Two of the four [...]
The party isn't over for the Chicago loft market
In the trendiest lofts of the city's hippest neighborhoods it's apparently no longer cool enough to throw parties on a rooftop deck or a mere balcony. [...]
One man's castle, a city's demolition order
Eyesore or constructivist art? The man in Tacoma, Washington who constructed this surreal home from flotsam and jetsam is selling the property for $36 [...]
Battle of the highrises: Da Bears or Da Park?
If you were shopping around new highrise condo towers which vista would have the most appeal? A bird's-eye view of Soldier Field on game-day from high [...]
Another ugly Chicago penthouse
We are starting to suspect there's some sort of "Ugly Penthouses Are Us" developer operating along the Sheffield Avenue corridor in Lake View/Lincoln [...]
And the Grammy for Chicago's worst home renovation goes to — R. KELLY!
R. Kelly famously came up from the rough and tumble public housing developments of Chicago's South Side to become a huge R&B star, but judging from th [...]
A Chicago architecture buff's Christmas
If you are sticking around Chicago for the holidays and find yourself bereft of family and friends or have just decided to bah-humbug the silly season [...]
Browsing the neighborhoods
If you're in the mood (and who isn't?) to browse photos of Chicago neighborhoods, head on over to SkyscraperCity.com. This thread features some reall [...]
The lonely Victorian
Brick condo buildings will soon surround Kelly Kniewel's Victorian home on the 3100-block of North Sheffield Avenue. The block is transforming at ligh [...]
Carl Sandburg Memorial Village?
The Chicago Architects Oral History Project, at the Art Institute of Chicago site, is a must for anyone with more than a passing curiosity about Chica [...]
Chicagoans in glass highrise houses
Glassy condo highrises are popping up all over downtown in the City of Big Shoulders, and it's interesting to look at possible reasons for the materia [...]
Chicago highrise offers winter balcony
This new real estate trend would have to be a strong seller among sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder...
The latest thing in highrise condos in [...]
Soldier Field revamp "innovative"
Love it or despise it, the always controversial makeover of Soldier Field has officially been declared "innovative architecture" by a panel of tastema [...]