Category: Architecture, design
Sum bigger than parts at architect David Hovey's Winnetka house
In a feature in Architectural Digest Magazine, local architect David Hovey, known for strikingly modern high-rises in Evanston as well as for the ne [...]
If Skybridge and Contemporaine had a love child…
We don't often find ourselves agreeing with Chicago Magazine, but we have to second most of the choices in its current feature, "10 Modern Master [...]
High-rise of the day: Jahn's 600 North Fairbanks lean and serene in Streeterville
Helmut Jahn, whose cutting-edge work for years seemed to be appreciated everywhere but his adopted town of Chicago, is back on the local scene, fol [...]
Video: construction underway on The Chicago Spire
There has been much speculation about whether the 150-story Chicago Spire would really get built. In this short video, Chicago Tribune Architecture Cr [...]
Glimpsed from afar – River Bend's best side faces west
The Chicago skyline has changed dramatically during the last decade, and we're struck, as we walk around the greater downtown area, by the ways in w [...]
Sneak a peek at the virtual interiors for Mod
While we're on the subject of Mod, two five-story condo buildings planned for 1222 and 1224 W Madison St (address corrected) in the West Loop, we th [...]
Contextual design of the day
Which facade has better texture -- Sonotheque's, 1444 W Chicago Ave, or Habana Libre's, 1440 W Chicago Ave? [...]
A peek inside Ivy Hall at University Village
I'd want to use my "indoor voice" in this understated model home at at Ivy Hall, the latest phase in the massive University Village development. In [...]
Old Pullman factory sets a developer dreaming
Earlier this week we got a tour of historic Pullman from Saul Klibanow, president of Park Bank Initiatives, the nonprofit developer restoring sever [...]
Historic Pullman houses to be restored and sold at affordable rates
Restoration is underway on four homes in Pullman, part of a plan by a local nonprofit developer to preserve the neighborhood’s historic character wh [...]
Quote of the day: modern design not "comfortable"
“This modern architecture that everybody talks about doesn’t correspond to the desire of the society we live in. A lot of people don’t find that comfo [...]
600 North Fairbanks' historic neighbor
As construction wraps up on Helmut Jahn's 600 North Fairbanks, we thought we'd take a glance back at the building's origins. Its shape was in part d [...]
A peek inside 474 North Lake Shore Drive
The folks handling public relations for 474 North Lake Shore Drive recently sent us this shot of a model studio unit. We're scheming to break in at [...]
Quote of the day: Lucien Lagrange on the Lake Shore Athletic Club
"I think it’s the ugliest building on the street…it has small windows. It’s not elegant. The façade is not elegant. It looks like a prison. You driv [...]
A peek inside The Legacy at Millennium Park
The folks at The Legacy at Millennium Park, Mesa Development's 73-story high-rise, sent us these photos of a model unit (at the sales center, 18 S M [...]
Keeping housing copacetic in Tri-Taylor
"I think there's a reasonable integration," Historic Boulevard Services' William Lavicka says of the new construction that has gone up in Tri-Taylor [...]
Streeterville's 600 North Fairbanks reaches full height
Schatz Development threw a "topping out" party Thursday for 600 North Fairbanks, its curving glass tower in Streeterville designed by Murphy / Jahn. [...]
Pioneering green in Lincoln Park
Living green is all the rage these days, but this Lincoln Park pioneer seems to have gotten there a few steps ahead of everyone else. [...]
Tale of two houses: Lincoln Park
Cue the Sesame Street music: "One of these things is not like the other." We saw shades of David and Goliath in these two houses, on Wrightwood Aven [...]
Downtown aldermen address constituents at forum
In 10 years, close to 500,000 people will be living in the city center - an area bounded by the Stevenson Expressway, North Avenue, the lake, and Ash [...]