Tag: Architecture
Modernist Atrium Home in Kenwood listed for $369K
The uninitiated will wonder why Jeanne Spurlock of Century 21 Kennedy Ryan is marketing a drab brick bunker near Madison Park and Dorchester Avenu [...]
Another look at Marynook
Last week we linked to a Dennis Byrne column that suggested suburbanizing might be in Chicago’s future. You can easily find pockets of suburbaniza [...]
Rent the Dewes Mansion for $15,000
Don’t reach for your checkbook just yet – that’s apparently only the daily rent for one of Chicago’s grandest homes, according to an article in Cr [...]
Glencoe open house pick: walk-to-train contemporary
The Village of Glencoe, like most North Shore communities, revels in its rich architectural heritage.
North Shore home buyers have long exhibit [...]
A $3.5M Keck teardown in Glencoe
Today’s new listings include a 5-bedroom, 4 ½ bath lakefront home in Glencoe attributed to Keck & Keck. It’s priced at $3,495,000.
The home, on [...]
Yet another Lake Forest Adler
We’ve reported before on the unusual number of David Adler homes that have come to market recently.
Add a lakefront Adler in Lake Forest to wha [...]
How would you improve Chicago’s boulevards?
Last year the Chicago Architectural Club challenged architects, artists, and other creative types to find a new use for the Spire hole in Streeter [...]
Marcel Freides-designed home sells in DePaul
It had been about 15 years since I last spoke with architect Marcel Freides. He’d since moved to one of the spectacular canyons off Mulholland Dr [...]
Adler home for sale in Highland Park
Six months ago Ned Skae alerted me to the possibility that a record number of homes designed by architect David Adler were on the market in Lake F [...]
Quote of the day: the 4+1
While reading the Tribune article on the passing of Jerome Soltan, who the Tribune refers to as the “grandfather of the four-plus-one,” I was reminded [...]
I had to disrobe some, said the architect
Sorry to disappoint, but this post has nothing to do with current events at the TSA.
A conversation with Joe Askins yesterday on the subject of arc [...]
$4.9 million Cortland Residence in Bucktown lands ALA Design Gold Award
You know that 7,800 square-foot Bucktown home that Curbed featured a couple weeks back? It's an award winner! Nicholas Clark Architects just pulle [...]
Aqua, Optima, 235 Van Buren architects recognized for Design Excellence
The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects will recognize three new condo towers in Chicago and Skokie at tonight's 2010 Design Ex [...]
Comment of the day: More than a Wright "wannabe"
"aztimc" on YouTube says:
You're selling yourself short by saying this is a "wannabe" Frank Lloyd Wright house. You should refer to it as a new & im [...]
Quote of the day: You are your kitchen
Over the years I’ve been in a number of homes built or renovated by the award-winning design-build firm of Benvenuti and Stein, but had never met an [...]
One of these things is not like the others
An urban legend has it that 2625 N Clark St, now known as Clark Place Condos, was designed by a California architect who had never visited the site. [...]
Slow Home breaks down our bathrooms
I wasn't familiar with the Slow Home concept until this week, after I received a e-mail from a Slow Home devotee who found us during a search for co [...]
River City, a community for children
River City's seen better days. The building's teeming with foreclosures and short sales -- the median price of a condo right now is $125,000, with p [...]
Why Philip and Erika bought at 235 Van Buren
Erika teaches English in a Chicago public high school. Philip works for the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
After 5 years living in a "workers' co [...]
Lagrange bids the biz adieu
“Of the type that does upscale condos, can you think of a better architect?”
- Architect Stanley Tigerman, speaking to Crain's about Lucien Lagrang [...]