10/18/07
Plenty of condos and lofts have exposed brick walls here or there, but at Firebird Development Corp‘s Columbia Gardens in Rogers Park, the exposed...
10/17/07
Viewers of architecture critic Phil Berger’s earlier pieces on YoChicago might be surprised to hear his qualified praise for Alhambra Palace, the new ginormous...
10/14/07
The lobby of Emerald looks like a pretty groovy place to hang out, especially if you’re a pond sprite. We dig the rippling, watery...
10/12/07
Join architecture critic Phil Berger for a look at streetscapes and building profiles in the West Loop. Mid-rises condo buildings dominate, since the neighborhood...
10/11/07
Now that Printers Corner is nearing completion, it’s becoming easier to see how the design by FitzGerald Associates Architects relates to the surrounding structures....
10/11/07
Now that 30 W Erie is nearly finished, what’s Yo’all’s take on the execution of Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture‘s design? Last time we put it...
10/11/07
Our new video series with architecture critic Phil Berger got off to a feisty start. There he was, minding his own business on Fulton,...
10/10/07
Check out our brief tour of a model that was created to give a sense of what a 90th-floor unit at the planned Chicago...
10/9/07
“Curious…Is Phil Berger a licensed architect? Or a licensed developer? I highly doubt Blair Kamin would concur with Mr. Berger on this one. Saying...
10/9/07
Architecture critic Phil Berger likes the concept behind the live-work spaces on the 1000 block of Fulton Market and he’s willing to give the...
10/8/07
Sorry if we seem a little Spire-happy lately, but it’s not every day that the tallest exclusively residential building in the world is planned...
10/6/07
Block X, built by The Thrush Companies and designed by Pappageorge – Haymes, was the first significant residential new construction in the West Loop...
10/6/07
A crew of reporters quizzes Dominic Grace, head of Savills Residential Development, about pricing for The Chicago Spire. Grace is handling international sales and...
10/5/07
Not to beat a dead loft, but Paulj’s comment on an earlier loft post got us thinking about the state of Chicago loft design:...
10/5/07
The CMK Companies recently unveiled five model units at its 1720 S Michigan Ave tower, a 33-story structure that maximizes downtown views by minimizing...
10/4/07
Infill is a new video feature for YoChicago, a peripatetic ramble around Chicago with an architecture critic in tow. Phil Berger has written often,...
10/3/07
Was a time, not so long ago, that some people considered being out of doors in Uptown a risky proposition. A new emphasis on...
10/3/07
No, we didn’t accidentally post the same photo twice. If you look closely, you can see that these are different buildings – but you...
10/2/07
In this video, Architect Santiago Calatrava shows off some of the color sketches that led him to the Chicago Spire design. While he talks...
10/2/07
In 2003, architecture critic and local blogger Lynn Becker wrote a cover story in the Chicago Reader calling on developers to “stop the blandness.”...