8/26/07
In a feature in Architectural Digest Magazine, local architect David Hovey, known for strikingly modern high-rises in Evanston as well as for the new...
8/22/07
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...
8/22/07
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,...
8/20/07
There has been much speculation about whether the 150-story Chicago Spire would really get built. In this short video, Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Blair...
8/19/07
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...
8/18/07
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...
8/7/07
Which facade has better texture — Sonotheque’s, 1444 W Chicago Ave, or Habana Libre’s, 1440 W Chicago Ave?
8/6/07
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...
8/2/07
Earlier this week we got a tour of historic Pullman from Saul Klibanow, president of Park Bank Initiatives, the nonprofit developer restoring several houses...
7/23/07
Restoration is underway on four homes in Pullman, part of a plan by a local nonprofit developer to preserve the neighborhood’s historic character while...
7/19/07
“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...
7/18/07
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...
7/18/07
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...
7/11/07
“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...
7/9/07
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,...
7/6/07
“I think there’s a reasonable integration,” Historic Boulevard Services‘ William Lavicka says of the new construction that has gone up in Tri-Taylor. “What new stuff...
7/1/07
Schatz Development threw a “topping out” party Thursday for 600 North Fairbanks, its curving glass tower in Streeterville designed by Murphy / Jahn. Guests...
6/29/07
Living green is all the rage these days, but this Lincoln Park pioneer seems to have gotten there a few steps ahead of everyone...
6/29/07
Cue the Sesame Street music: “One of these things is not like the other.” We saw shades of David and Goliath in these two...
6/28/07
In 10 years, close to 500,000 people will be living in the city center – an area bounded by the Stevenson Expressway, North Avenue,...