Tag: Architecture
City places landmark Raber House up for bid
The City's Department of Housing and Economic Development has put the John Raber House, a Chicago landmark, up for bid. The home, at 5760 S Lafayette [...]
Is this a good time to be an architect?
Yesterday's Crain's Chicago Business served up a slightly more upbeat take on the prospects for architectural employment than the one offered at C [...]
If Frank Gehry and Jeanne Gang co-designed Kingsbury Plaza
Kingsbury Plaza, 520 N Kingsbury, occupies a striking position on the river, at the western edge of River North. It's one of the first structures [...]
A Bucktown contemporary with dramatic bay windows
The contemporary brick home at 1837 N Hermitage Ave in the trendy Bucktown neighborhood has 3 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths.
A striking feature of th [...]
Sartorial style at 235 Van Buren
I've met and interviewed Philip Barash twice, both times on weekends and in sharply different venues. Our first meeting was in the striking six-st [...]
The Loop’s blue building on LaSalle Street
All that remains of the circa-1910 Otis Building at 10 S LaSalle is four stories of its original façade, and it's all you may have ever noticed of [...]
Contextual views of the new Coast and Optima Center apartment towers
Architects are generally sensitive to the context in which their buildings will be situated.
Building renderings and photos, however, rarely sh [...]
Nobody knows there’s a river there
In 2011 SOM's Philip Enquist led Waterline, a design studio focused on the South Branch of the Chicago River. Twelve architecture, urban design, [...]
Old Town’s little house on the post-industrial prairie
One of the Chicago architecture books that I browse periodically is Jay Pridmore and George Larson's Chicago Architecture and Design. It's a good read [...]
Remembering Rael Slutsky’s architectural perspectives
If you bought a new townhome on the north side of Chicago in the 1980s or 90s, you may have first seen it through an illustration drawn by Rael Sl [...]
Krueck + Sexton architects talk about glass
Curbed Chicago picked up on a post at the SkyscraperPage forum that surfaced a new rendering for a proposed 1.2M square foot 48-story office tower [...]
Why Karen and Jim bought a second home at 235 Van Buren
After nearly three decades in the suburbs, Karen and Jim wanted an urban experience and a place to stay after late nights at a downtown dinner.
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A video look at Helmut Jahn’s University of Chicago utility plants
Architect / photographer Tom Rossiter and architectural historian Jay Pridmore are teaming up on a new book titled Building Ideas; an Architectura [...]
Apartments slated for former Uptown hellhole
Add yet another project to Chicago's rental apartment boom.
Somerset Place, an Uptown hellhole that was shut down by the state three years ago, [...]
Night and day at Helmut Jahn’s 600 North Fairbanks
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin recently visited 600 North Fairbanks in Streeterville for a tour of a 40th floor southwest corner condo. The unit [...]
Revisiting an award-winner in the South Loop deadpool
Five years ago today we noted that X/O Condominiums had won a National Association of Home Builders Gold Award for design excellence, and had been [...]
Is Fornelli Tower the best apartment deal in the Loop?
A Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily article on student housing reminded me that I'd been meaning to check into the status of Fornelli Hall, a stud [...]
An award-winning restoration of Griffin’s Emery House in Elmhurst
The Emery House in Elmhurst, 281 S Arlington, was designed by Walter Burley Griffin for his friend and high school classmate, William H. Emery Jr. [...]
Renting vs owning a new 2-bedroom condo at 235 Van Buren
If you're like many of the visitors to the condominium tower at 235 Van Buren, the new Ralph Johnson-designed condo at the edge of Chicago's Loop [...]
Visit the secret spaces atop Chicago
It's surprising, in a city that celebrates its architecture, how few viewers visit the Chicago Architecture Foundation's YouTube channel. The vide [...]