5/28/13
The elevator lobby at 100 East Bellevue immerses you in images of domestic bliss. On the outside chance that you missed the message, the...
5/17/13
The modern home at 6435 Indianhead Trail in Indian Head Park is filled with surprises. It’s no surprise that the corner lot and large...
5/8/13
Ralph Johnson‘s 235 Van Buren has inspired verbal pyrotechnics from commentators and quickly become an award-winning architectural icon. The new condo high-rise is also...
5/7/13
Brian Kidd was the senior project architect for K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit luxury apartment tower that recently opened in the Fulton...
5/6/13
BJB Properties, one of our sponsors, owns and manages dozens of newer and recently-renovated vintage apartment buildings in prime Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Lake...
4/15/13
Yesterday’s Crain’s Chicago Business served up a slightly more upbeat take on the prospects for architectural employment than the one offered at Crain’s Chicago...
4/5/13
I’ve met and interviewed Philip Barash twice, both times on weekends and in sharply different venues. Our first meeting was in the striking six-story...
3/21/13
In 2011 SOM‘s Philip Enquist led Waterline, a design studio focused on the South Branch of the Chicago River. Twelve architecture, urban design, urban...
3/12/13
One of the Chicago architecture books that I browse periodically is Jay Pridmore and George Larson’s Chicago Architecture and Design. It’s a good read,...
3/12/13
If you bought a new townhome on the north side of Chicago in the 1980s or 90s, you may have first seen it through...
3/5/13
Curbed Chicago picked up on a post at the SkyscraperPage forum that surfaced a new rendering for a proposed 1.2M square foot 48-story office...
3/4/13
Architect / photographer Tom Rossiter and architectural historian Jay Pridmore are teaming up on a new book titled Building Ideas; an Architectural Guide to...
1/24/13
The Emery House in Elmhurst, 281 S Arlington, was designed by Walter Burley Griffin for his friend and high school classmate, William H. Emery...
1/22/13
It’s surprising, in a city that celebrates its architecture, how few viewers visit the Chicago Architecture Foundation‘s YouTube channel. The videos featured there often...
1/21/13
Several weeks ago I visited the IMD Guest House, an affordable short-term haven for patients and their families who need to be near Chicago’s...
1/15/13
I was at a meeting at the Fisher Building yesterday morning. Later in the day I headed for DesignSlinger to learn a bit about...
1/8/13
Among the nation’s top 25 cities, Chicago ranks near the bottom in traffic fatalities per 1,000 people, and has a middling rank in the...
12/10/12
Erika is a Chicago public school teacher and Philip works for an organization that promotes Chicago’s Loop. Two and a half years ago they...
11/2/12
The heated controversy over the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Streeterville is near an endgame following yesterday’s decision by the Commission...
10/8/12
A year ago we invited you to consider this quote from John Shelette Van Bergen, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright: Since the American...