4/12/11
The uninitiated will wonder why Jeanne Spurlock of Century 21 Kennedy Ryan is marketing a drab brick bunker near Madison Park and Dorchester Avenue...
3/9/11
Last week we linked to a Dennis Byrne column that suggested suburbanizing might be in Chicago’s future. You can easily find pockets of suburbanization...
3/6/11
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...
2/25/11
The Village of Glencoe, like most North Shore communities, revels in its rich architectural heritage. North Shore home buyers have long exhibited a strong...
2/23/11
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,...
2/22/11
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...
1/24/11
Last year the Chicago Architectural Club challenged architects, artists, and other creative types to find a new use for the Spire hole in Streeterville....
1/14/11
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...
1/13/11
Six months ago Ned Skae alerted me to the possibility that a record number of homes designed by architect David Adler were on the...
12/27/10
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...
11/24/10
Sorry to disappoint, but this post has nothing to do with current events at the TSA. A conversation with Joe Askins yesterday on the...
11/23/10
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 pulled in...
10/29/10
The Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects will recognize three new condo towers in Chicago and Skokie at tonight’s 2010 Design Excellence...
10/11/10
“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...
10/4/10
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...
10/2/10
An urban legend has it that 2625 N Clark St, now known as Clark Place Condos, was designed by a California architect who had...
8/19/10
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...
8/4/10
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,...
7/30/10
Erika teaches English in a Chicago public high school. Philip works for the Chicago Architecture Foundation. After 5 years living in a “workers’ cottage”...
7/15/10
“Of the type that does upscale condos, can you think of a better architect?” – Architect Stanley Tigerman, speaking to Crain’s about Lucien Lagrange‘s...