More news from the starter-castle market: Earlier today we alluded to the Chicago Tribune Magazine‘s fun little weekend spread “Attack of the giant houses” in which various architects and psychiatrists had a go at the faux historic piles on Lincoln Park streets like Burling Street, and fawned over the modernist box that a member of the Pritzker clan is building (hey, don’t bite the hand that feeds you).
Yo’s truly is a little envious of the obscene wealth on display along Burling, as I’ve mentioned in a previous post. That said, I agree with much of what was said in the Trib. story. That is, some of these ostentatious homes forsake taste, and as a result come across as forbidding, slightly creepy giants that loom large over the street. When you have multiple city lots you can afford to set your house back from the street.