“I think it’s the ugliest building on the street…it has small windows. It’s not elegant. The façade is not elegant. It looks like a prison. You drive by and say, ‘what’s going on in there?’
“There’s nothing you can do with this building. You know, racquetball, swimming pool, gymnasium, you know, it’s a health club. Nothing you can do with it…tear it down and put something beautiful there.”
– Architect Lucien Lagrange, principal in Lucien Lagrange Architects, in a recent conversation with Yo on his firm’s plan with Fifield Realty to build a condo building on the site of the Lake Shore Athletic Club – a plan preservationists oppose. Late yesterday Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) announced his opposition to demolishing the 1924 structure.
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