Category: Architecture, design
Where's the outrage in Wrigleyville?
You would have thought that the expanded bleachers at Wrigley Field, with high new prices and brazenly commercialized name, would have incensed fans [...]
Designing your week: architect Bernard Tschumi at Art Institute
The Architecture and Design Society will present a lecture by leading architectural theorist Bernard Tschumi called "Event-Form" at 6 p.m. on Tuesday [...]
The economics of recycling in action
Here's a glimpse at an obscure aspect of the teardown / rehab / new construction universe: recycling bricks from demolition sites for resale.
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Marshall Field's: a tour by any other name won't sound as sweet
Now may be a good time to sign up for the Marshall Field's on State Street walking tour led by the Chicago Architecture Foundation, as there are only [...]
Is Gang's Aqua condo tower the start of a 3rd Chicago School?
Someone should give Lynn Becker , the architecture critic, who has his own Web site and writes for the Reader and other print publications, a civic aw [...]
Orchard Street's burgeoning Billionaire's Row
For a lot of the last hundred years, the area north of Willow between Halsted and Larrabee has been a kind of no man's land. The modest cottage-lined [...]
New East Side's skyline of the future
This is how part of the skyline of the New East Side should look in a couple of years' time when Magellan Development's Aqua is completed. In the fore [...]
Major condo tower planned for South Loop
Ahh, we love the smell of new construction in the morning. Yo has caught wind of a new development coming to the South Loop all the way from the mossy [...]
Gentry achieve total victory in Paulina corridor turf war
It's official. With the demolition this week of the sky blue water towers on the 2700 block of North Paulina, the paradigm shift, as they used to say [...]
The Lynch-pin of Brininstool
We hear so much about the downtown modernist masterpieces of architectural team Brininstool + Lynch (R+D659, 550 St. Clair), that it was interesting t [...]
Design event of the spring: Great Chicago Spaces and Places
The city will sponsor Great Chicago Spaces and Places on the weekend of May 19-21, an exploration of the city's architecture and design that takes in [...]
Chicago needs to reclaim Navy Pier from the Canadians
It seems strange that a master plan for redeveloping Navy Pier should be entrusted to a Toronto-based consultant. We don't mean to diss Forrec Ltd. bu [...]
Babylon in Chicago? New condos tout green roofs
The green roof is not quite a standard perk in major downtown developments, but it's not far from it. More and more builders are including green roo [...]
Mandarin Oriental joins battle to make its mark on the Chicago skyline
A diligent YoChicago reader has proposed Palladian Development's Mandarin Oriental Tower be added to our skyline supremacy contest, and for good reaso [...]
Fantastical facades: is that a bay, or you just happy to see me?
The outside of this three-bedroom 3.5-bath cottage might look a tad unbalanced, what with the enormous ivory bay jutting out from the otherwise unrema [...]
The Inferior at LaSalle
Last week we gave you an update on the stylish 156 W Superior development in River North. Unfortunately its neighbor, JFJ Development Company's The Su [...]
Designing your week: you got your Mies in my peanut butter!
From the magnificence of Caldwell to the minimalism of Mies (say that fives times fast), it's a big week in Chicago architecture. YoChicago's architec [...]
More is less for Uptown condo
Our friends on the development team for this building at 4114 N Kenmore Ave would have done well with a "less is more" approach when they designed t [...]
Separated at birth: 156 W Superior matches blueprint
Last night Yo attended the "sneak preview party" for Ranquist Development's 156 W Superior, and we were pleased to see that the actual building bea [...]
Get on your bike and explore Pilsen
If you enjoy gawking at real estate and architecture in different neighborhoods across the city, and want to get some exercise at the same time, dust [...]