7/14/10
My first girlfriend when I moved to Chicago was Tal Gilat, an architect from Israel. She was an admirer of Mies. Together we explored...
7/1/10
Local correspondent Ned Skae reports that Lake Forest has more David Adler historic homes on the market than perhaps ever before. If your vision...
5/17/10
We love the hole. I think we would like to have the hole there forever. – UIC architecture professor Alexander Lehnerer, on the 70-foot-deep...
4/29/10
The Henry P. Glass house in Northfield is, by some accounts, the first passive solar house in America. Glass was trained as an architect...
4/26/10
Ernest Alton “Tony” Grunsfeld III has designed dozens of homes along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. Most are in the distinctively modern idiom exhibited...
3/31/10
We normally don’t promote a lot of “go-and-do” events around the city, but in this case I’ll make an exception. The Chicago Architecture Foundation...
3/25/10
Last week we went on a mini-tour of downtown Hinsdale with veteran real estate agent Gaby Jury, and we’ll be bringing you video from...
3/15/10
Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, on the Elysian: If all we do is laugh at traditionalism, rather than figuring out how to do it...
2/22/10
Emporis‘ editors have named Aqua the best skyscraper of 2009, according to the Tribune’s Blair Kamin. The Jeanne Gang-designed, Magellan-built tower at 225 N...
2/11/10
Have a plan for the Chicago Spire hole? It may be worth $3,500. Taking cues from a variety of snarky blog posts, newspaper columns,...
1/27/10
From Blair Kamin’s Cityscapes: “There’s a blurring of boundaries between architects, designers, developers and contractor. Just like we see public-private partnerships developing around the...
1/19/10
Downturn be damned — when it comes to high-rise construction, Chicago still rules the roost. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban...
12/10/09
The final segment of my Beverly and Morgan Park drive-around features the homes of Griffin Place (formerly 103rd Place), site of the largest concentration...
12/7/09
“By the end of the boom, design was getting outrageous and unreal. I think it’s going to be simpler going forward. Everybody is conserving...
12/7/09
Some homes make a strong impression on you while leaving you fumbling for le mot juste to describe them. Coldwell Banker’s Maureen Mohling summed...
12/4/09
The last stop on my “tower tour” with Hartshorne Plunkard architects Paul Alessandro and Tom Pope was Trio, RDM Development‘s project at 650 –...
12/1/09
The second stop on my project tour with Hartshorne Plunkard architects Tom Pope and Paul Alessandro was Silver Tower, Stonegate Development‘s 40-story high-rise at...
12/1/09
It is a major architectural disappointment, a light-filled upgrade for the underground pedway system and an urban hub whose potential won’t be realized for...
11/30/09
Earlier this month, I met up with Tom Pope and Paul Alessandro of Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture to chat about three new condo high-rises from...
11/1/09
During the media tour of the Winthrop Club in Evanston, the topic of green construction and LEED certification came up over and over again....