Category: Architecture, design
How long does it take to design a high-rise?
This particular Yo-deler has always wondered how long it takes for an architect, or a team of architects, to design a high-rise. My uneducated guess w [...]
New Homes Magazine names Zen best new residential mid-rise
New Homes Magazine has named Zen Chicago's best new residential mid-rise. "Finally, the West Loop appears to have had enough of bland brick mid-rises [...]
Chicago's best and worst balconies
This balcony, at Belmont and Sheffield, has to be our favorite. Why? Oh, there are almost too many reasons to list. For one thing, it's the only bal [...]
Urban streetscapes on view at MCA expand photographer's reputation
Catherine Opie gained fame and generated controversy in the 1990s with her photographs [many self-portraits] depicting Los Angeles' leather / S&M / [...]
New Homes Magazine names Aqua Chicago's best new high-rise condo
New Homes Magazine has named Aqua Chicago's best new residential high-rise."As good as it is, location takes a backseat to design in this project, t [...]
Headline of the day: Eat it, Music Box
Erica Gunderson, YoChicago's johnny-on-the-spot in Irving Park, shows a little neighborhood pride, feistiness even, about what looks like the resurr [...]
University of Chicago picks Urban Works to redesign new minority building
The University of Chicago has announced that Urban Works Architects will redesign the building at 5710 S Woodlawn Ave, the future home of the Office o [...]
Former Chicago architecture critic Lee Bey joins blogosphere
Lee Bey, erstwhile Sun-Times architecture writer, Mayoral chief of staff and presently director of media and government affairs for Skidmore Owings & [...]
Another condo with interesting but flawed design and moronic name
At YoChicago, redundancy isn't our raison d'etre. But sometimes we just can't help it, as with the disturbing proliferation of condo projects with s [...]
Are these homes Unkenilworthy?
We mentioned in a previous post that Kenilworth is on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of most endangered places.
It's curious tha [...]
New Rogers Park Montessori school enriches streetscape with color and geometry
Almost one hundred years after the Italian physician Maria Montessori developed her educational technique, her method remains controversial. But eve [...]
Despite idiotic name, nice design for "Juneway Jungle" condo
What is it with real estate developers and the stupid names they pick for their projects? Case in point: the Esoterica, at 1528 W Jonquil Terrace, w [...]
Cemetery living? Get to know your neighbors this Sunday
In keeping with the recent ghoulish debates on whether or not we'd live across from a cemetery, we found this tour too good to pass up. The Chicago Hi [...]
Millennium Park – the book hits shelves June 1
Can't wait to hit the grassy grounds of Millennium Park for a bit of outdoor reading this summer? Stop by your local bookstore first and pick up a cop [...]
Mies van der Rohe and the Krispy Kremes
This particular cog in the Yo Chicago wheel can't say enough about the Chicago Cycling Club's weekend tours. Taking one of the club's rides is a great [...]
Frank Lloyd Wright housewalk in OP-RF
That's right, it's time again for the Wright Plus benefit housewalk in Oak Park and River Forest. The 32nd annual walk is May 20, and features rare in [...]
Bye, bye Lakeside Motel, hello 5440 N Sheridan Rd
This interesting-looking building (along with its awkward sibling to the left) will replace the Lakeside Motel at 5440 N Sheridan Rd in Edgewater. B [...]
Shopping for a new condo / cemetery? Graveyards of Chicago has you covered
We realize we're nowhere near Halloween, but it is a dreary old day out there, and we seem to be in a morbid mood at Yo, so to continue the cemetery [...]
Broadway zoning debate settled in Edgewater
Just in from Killian at Yo's Edgewater journal: After close to two years of study, debate and grassroots referenda the 48th Ward Zoning and Planning C [...]
Kenilworth and Doo Wop Motels
What does the Village of Kenilworth, Chicago's priciest North Shore community, have in common with Wildwood, New Jersey's Doo Wop Motels?
Well, a [...]