4/3/06
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,...
4/3/06
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 Steven...
4/1/06
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...
4/1/06
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-called...
3/31/06
One might expect to find a building named “El Lago” painted with pastels or deep marine-green — something breezy, at any rate. But our...
3/30/06
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...
3/28/06
Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor’s monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials say...
3/28/06
The historic Biograph movie house, at 2433 N Lincoln Ave in Chicago, the spot where the Lady in Red duped Public Enemy No. 1...
3/24/06
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...
3/24/06
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...
3/23/06
Earlier this week, we mentioned that a nearly $5 million condo available at 209 E Lake Shore Dr ranks among the priciest homes on...
3/22/06
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...
3/21/06
How to account for this? – Prototype for Six Flags Starbucks. – Turret fell off a UFO and landed on the Starbucks. – Starbucks...
3/20/06
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....
3/17/06
This sanctuary at Barry and Clifton completes our trinity of Lake View church / condo conversions, for this week. On the left-hand side, through...
3/16/06
Earlier this week, we posted on an understated church / condo conversion at 1021 W Barry Ave. Just one block west, you can find...
3/14/06
Back in December, Alison Soltau posted on R. Kelly’s ghastly church / penthouse conversion. YoChicago recently noticed another converted house of worship, at 1021...
3/10/06
We headed over to the Gap, on the Near South Side, last week to help developer, activist and raconteur Bill Lavicka celebrate his birthday...
3/9/06
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 North...
3/8/06
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...