Tag: Architecture

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Apply for the 21st Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards

Apply for the 21st Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards

Applications are now open for the 21st Annual Chicago Neighborhood Development Awards (CNDA). The CNDAs recognize innovation and best practi [...]
New South Loop condos making rapid progress

New South Loop condos making rapid progress

If you're at Gioco, Zapatista, Asian Outpost, Flo & Santos or The Scout, head a few feet south from that quintet of outstanding restaurants to [...]
Trib surfaces first rendering of Stern tower

Trib surfaces first rendering of Stern tower

The Chicago Tribune reported late yesterday that a 67-story, 500 unit apartment and condo tower has been proposed for a site at 451 E Grand Ave in [...]
1345 Wabash condos have a focus on design

1345 Wabash condos have a focus on design

A focus on design is nothing new for the CMK Companies. CMK has a history of creating architecturally distinctive high-rises that are, according t [...]
The “silly thing” on the roof of Chestnut Place

The “silly thing” on the roof of Chestnut Place

The odd structure on the roof of Chestnut Place was, for a period of time, even more odd. From the Art Institute's oral history of architect Ben W [...]
An architecturally distinctive home on a quiet Glenview cul-de-sac

An architecturally distinctive home on a quiet Glenview cul-de-sac

The 4-bedroom, 3 ½ bath ranch-style home at 2876 Fredric Ct in Glenview is architecturally interesting from end to end, but you're more likely to [...]
What’s missing from this picture?

What’s missing from this picture?

We have well over 300,000 images on our servers. While I was searching for an image of Vetro, 611 S Wells, I came across the above photo, which wa [...]
South Loop construction update, 1345 Wabash

South Loop construction update, 1345 Wabash

Since the time of our last visit to 1345 Wabash in the South Loop work has been completed on the concrete pad that will anchor the tower crane tha [...]
Model grand opening at nearly sold-out Flexhouse2

Model grand opening at nearly sold-out Flexhouse2

If you've been paying attention to the market for new condos in the city you've doubtless noted that quality infill projects from established deve [...]
YoChicago’s video walk through the Ferris Bueller house

YoChicago’s video walk through the Ferris Bueller house

Last August I spent nearly two hours shooting photos and video at what, in deference to the listing agent's wishes, we referred to in the above vi [...]
New South Loop condos invite you to stop renting

New South Loop condos invite you to stop renting

Rents in top-tier downtown Chicago apartment buildings surged in the first quarter of the year, up 7.6% over the previous quarter, according to a [...]
Sample the best of the South Loop lifestyle on Wabash

Sample the best of the South Loop lifestyle on Wabash

The forecast is for comfortably warm and sunny weather this weekend, perfect conditions for an early alfresco dinner before Saturday night's Black [...]
Construction update: Flexhouse2 in Logan Square

Construction update: Flexhouse2 in Logan Square

Flexhouse2 is edging closer to occupancy for its Phase I rowhomes at 2650 N Ridgeway in Logan Square, and Phase II units are making rapid progress [...]
South Loop construction update, 1345 Wabash

South Loop construction update, 1345 Wabash

The pilings that will support the new 15-story condo building at 1345 Wabash are in the ground and the pile-driving crane is being disassembled an [...]
A vintage Streeterville condo that lives like a single-family home

A vintage Streeterville condo that lives like a single-family home

Unit 6B at 222 E Chestnut is a 2,400 square foot, 3-bedroom, 2 ½ bath architecturally-interesting condo that has the feel of a single-family home. [...]
The second coming of a Robert AM Stern high-rise to Chicago

The second coming of a Robert AM Stern high-rise to Chicago

Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that Related Midwest has selected "renowned New York architect Robert A.M. Stern" to design a high-rise [...]
New South Loop condos on a buffered bike path

New South Loop condos on a buffered bike path

The South Loop is one of Chicago's more bike-friendly neighborhoods and Wabash Ave, one of its bike-friendliest streets, is slated to become more [...]
Affordable modern apartments in a prime East Hyde Park location

Affordable modern apartments in a prime East Hyde Park location

Modernist master Mies van der Rohe designed the Algonquin Apartments, 1606 E Hyde Park Blvd, in the early 1950s. Several years ago the apartme [...]
An affordable Hyde Park 2-bedroom steps from the Metra

An affordable Hyde Park 2-bedroom steps from the Metra

The rapidly-developing retail and restaurant scene along 53rd Street in Hyde Park has North Siders taking a look at a neighborhood they'd never pr [...]
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