Category: Architecture, design
University of Chicago's south campus development plan
Check out the University of Chicago's south campus development plan. By 2008, this area will be home to a residence hall for 900 students, a couple of [...]
From City spaces: Steven Ehrlich lectures on Multicultural Modernism
It's a big week in architecture for the city, according to "City spaces, city places," YoChicago's new journal of architecture and design. Architect S [...]
A fresh take on Chicago architecture
Yo's looking for a few brave, wise, witty and unpaid volunteers to toss some brickbats and bouquets at the architects who brighten and blight our envi [...]
New in Loop: casino, water park, softball field!
Mayor Richard M. Daley today announced plans to turn the highly coveted parcel across from Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street, the so-cal [...]
El Lago: another of Edgewater's architectural Bad News Bears
One might expect to find a building named "El Lago" painted with pastels or deep marine-green -- something breezy, at any rate. But our Edgewater "El [...]
The pink beacon of Sheridan Road: Edgewater Beach Apartments
It's our own little taste of South Beach right here in Chicago, and given the Midwestern sensibility that permeates the city more than any of us would [...]
Millennium Park bean update
Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials s [...]
Biograph Theater nearing completion
The historic Biograph movie house, at 2433 N Lincoln Ave in Chicago, the spot where the Lady in Red duped Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger, is in i [...]
The hotels are coming, the hotels are coming!
Not since the Peninsula arrived close to five years ago has there been so much high-end hotel buzz in dowtown Chicago. Trump Tower is starting to actu [...]
Livin' large on E Lake Shore: The Mayfair's $8 million record breaker
And the granddaddy of all downtown condo sales, at least for now, is...drum roll please...an $8 million condo on the 18th floor of The Mayfair, 189 E [...]
Livin' large on E Lake Shore: $6.2M unit for sale at The Breakers
Earlier this week, we mentioned that a nearly $5 million condo available at 209 E Lake Shore Dr ranks among the priciest homes on the exclusive stri [...]
Today's Yo challenge — Fort Pappageorge
That's not a drawing of an integrated circuit chip — it's a Google Earth view of what used to be mockingly referred to as "Fort Pappageorge," [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
How to account for this?
- Prototype for Six Flags Starbucks.
- Turret fell off a UFO and landed on the Starbucks.
- Starbucks CEO's kid got hired [...]
Livin' large on E Lake Shore: The Drake Tower turntable
Our tour of properties on E Lake Shore Dr kicks off with the Drake Tower, a co-op that's neighbor to the world-famous Drake Hotel. Built from 1928 t [...]
Lake View church / condo conversion #3
This sanctuary at Barry and Clifton completes our trinity of Lake View church / condo conversions, for this week. On the left-hand side, through the [...]
Praise the Lord and cancel the college fund: Another Lake View church conversion
Earlier this week, we posted on an understated church / condo conversion at 1021 W Barry Ave. Just one block west, you can find a home for sale at a [...]
Our Lady of the Duplexes
Back in December, Alison Soltau posted on R. Kelly's ghastly church / penthouse conversion. YoChicago recently noticed another converted house of w [...]
Lavicka selling Celestial House in the Gap
We headed over to the Gap, on the Near South Side, last week to help developer, activist and raconteur Bill Lavicka celebrate his birthday and the com [...]
A 5-star book and high-rise
The 2005 edition of Chicago Architecture and Design is getting 5-star reviews from Amazon readers. If you attended last week's groundbreaking for 600 [...]
The Buddhists are coming (to save Ravenswood landmark)!
It's a subtle change on a structure that has stood for more than 100 years, but the new name on the front of what's been commonly known as the Paul [...]