Tag: Architecture
Quote: "Helplessly captive of the present"
My first girlfriend when I moved to Chicago was Tal Gilat, an architect from Israel. She was an admirer of Mies. Together we explored his campus of th [...]
A David Adler coach house is not a city coach house
Local correspondent Ned Skae reports that Lake Forest has more David Adler historic homes on the market than perhaps ever before.
If your vision of [...]
Quote of the day: Learning to love the hole
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 "scar" [...]
The first passive solar house in America
The Henry P. Glass house in Northfield is, by some accounts, the first passive solar house in America.
Glass was trained as an architect in Austria [...]
A Tony Grunsfeld home in Highland Park: not unfriendly, just private
Ernest Alton "Tony" Grunsfeld III has designed dozens of homes along the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan. Most are in the distinctively modern idio [...]
It's cruise season on the Chicago River
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 [...]
Teardownosaurus Rex in Hinsdale
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 that visit soon [...]
Quote of the day: Elysian's troublesome top
Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, on the Elysian: If all we do is laugh at traditionalism, rather than figuring out how to do it better, then t [...]
Aqua is tops among the '09 class
Emporis' editors have named Aqua the best skyscraper of 2009, according to the Tribune's Blair Kamin.
The Jeanne Gang-designed, Magellan-built towe [...]
An in-Spire-d contest announcement
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, and message boa [...]
Quote of the day: Designs for the future
From Blair Kamin's Cityscapes:
“There’s a blurring of boundaries between architects, designers, developers and contractor. Just like we see public-pr [...]
Chicago's tall towers: a year in review
Downturn be damned -- when it comes to high-rise construction, Chicago still rules the roost. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Hab [...]
The Walter Burley Griffin homes of Beverly
The final segment of my Beverly and Morgan Park drive-around features the homes of Griffin Place (formerly 103rd Place), site of the largest concent [...]
Quotes of the day: a return to simplicity
"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 their asset [...]
Sunday open house – a Seyfarth home in Glencoe
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 up [...]
Designing Trio's tower and mid-rises
The last stop on my "tower tour" with Hartshorne Plunkard architects Paul Alessandro and Tom Pope was Trio, RDM Development's project at 650 - 670 W [...]
Designing Silver Tower in River North
The second stop on my project tour with Hartshorne Plunkard architects Tom Pope and Paul Alessandro was Silver Tower, Stonegate Development's 40-sto [...]
Quote of the day: Block 37 disappoints
It is a major architectural disappointment, a light-filled upgrade for the underground pedway system and an urban hub whose potential won't be realize [...]
Designing Superior 110
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 a d [...]
The present and future of green building
During the media tour of the Winthrop Club in Evanston, the topic of green construction and LEED certification came up over and over again. I talked [...]