4/20/06
The top-floor cornice at 2735 N Pine Grove Ave caught our eye, but we quickly found out that the Victorian stylings are only part...
4/20/06
In the “what-were-they-thinking” dept., somebody in charge at the Apollo Theater complex on Lincoln Avenue has managed to do what seemed impossible: making one...
4/19/06
We posted an item earlier this week about some homebuyers’ tendency to talk of themselves as living “in a Helmut Jahn,” or a Mies,...
4/17/06
Ever noticed that some people don’t live in Streeterville, they live in a Mies? Well that’s what it’s going to be like at the...
4/17/06
Real estate developers are not, in general, publicity-shy. You probably know that easterners began calling Chicago the Windy City not because of meteorological conditions...
4/17/06
Looking forward to restoration efforts after Hurricane Katrina and looking back on the history of Chicago’s first subsidized housing, it’s a big week for...
4/16/06
Describe the architectural style of the fountain in the foreground. I’m going with Chalice Wright / Falling Altar. Your take?
4/14/06
Here’s a rendering of the eastern elevation of American Invsco’s upcoming 3660 N Lake Shore Drive, the high-rise and townhome development we told you...
4/12/06
In case you were wondering, you just entered LINCOLN SQUARE! Obnoxious markers like the one above have popped up in various neighborhoods in recent...
4/12/06
Yes, Mies van der Rohe’s proclamation that “God is in the details” has become a tired cliche. Which doesn’t mean it’s not so. It’s...
4/10/06
Last week we posted on the Park Tower Condos building, one of the many Mies imitators loitering around Chicago. Don’t get us wrong; there’s...
4/10/06
Is this the ugliest garage you’ve ever seen? Sadly, it probably isn’t, since an ugly garage base seems to have been a prerequisite for...
4/10/06
One of life’s great injustices is the failure of too many people with too much money to exercise either good judgment or imagination or...
4/10/06
YoChicago’s architecture journal, City spaces, highlights a couple of events exploring urban architecture and development: Illinois Institute of Technology professor Ben Nicholson will sign...
4/7/06
Across the street from the Edgewater Beach Apartments stands –or floats — The Statesman, at 5601 North Sheridan Road. If Chicago is the city...
4/7/06
It does our heart good to see the name of Lucien Lagrange, architect to Chicago’s wealthy (think The Park Tower, 840 N. Lake Shore...
4/6/06
You would have to be blind or unconscious not to notice the infestation of red brick behemoths wherever gentrification has steamrolled in. Let’s just...
4/5/06
Yesterday we reported that The Donald was keeping the $28 million penthouse at Trump International Hotel & Tower for his Chicago pad. The Chicago...
4/5/06
Here’s a rendering of Renzo Piano’s design for the $220 million Modern Wing of The Art Institute of Chicago, courtesy of the Art Institute....
4/5/06
Meet Aqua, which at 82-stories, will be the tallest high-rise at the Lakeshore East development, that sits on land south of Wacker Drive and...