Tag: Design
Images of domesticity and an architect’s beat-up mother-in-law
The elevator lobby at 100 East Bellevue immerses you in images of domestic bliss.
On the outside chance that you missed the message, the h [...]
A light-filled modern home in tranquil Indian Head Park
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 windows o [...]
235 Van Buren – welcome to a show that never ends
Ralph Johnson's 235 Van Buren has inspired verbal pyrotechnics from commentators and quickly become an award-winning architectural icon.
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Brian Kidd offers an architect’s perspective on K2 Apartments
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 Ri [...]
How life’s lived in renovated vintage apartments
BJB Properties, one of our sponsors, owns and manages dozens of newer and recently-renovated vintage apartment buildings in prime Gold Coast, Lincoln [...]
Is this a good time to be an architect?
Yesterday's Crain's Chicago Business served up a slightly more upbeat take on the prospects for architectural employment than the one offered at C [...]
Sartorial style at 235 Van Buren
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-st [...]
Nobody knows there’s a river there
In 2011 SOM's Philip Enquist led Waterline, a design studio focused on the South Branch of the Chicago River. Twelve architecture, urban design, [...]
Old Town’s little house on the post-industrial prairie
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 [...]
Remembering Rael Slutsky’s architectural perspectives
If you bought a new townhome on the north side of Chicago in the 1980s or 90s, you may have first seen it through an illustration drawn by Rael Sl [...]
Krueck + Sexton architects talk about glass
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 tower [...]
A video look at Helmut Jahn’s University of Chicago utility plants
Architect / photographer Tom Rossiter and architectural historian Jay Pridmore are teaming up on a new book titled Building Ideas; an Architectura [...]
An award-winning restoration of Griffin’s Emery House in Elmhurst
The Emery House in Elmhurst, 281 S Arlington, was designed by Walter Burley Griffin for his friend and high school classmate, William H. Emery Jr. [...]
Visit the secret spaces atop Chicago
It's surprising, in a city that celebrates its architecture, how few viewers visit the Chicago Architecture Foundation's YouTube channel. The vide [...]
The Room Place, convenient furniture savings by the roomful
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 worl [...]
Is the Fisher Building terra cotta a pun or payback?
I was at a meeting at the Fisher Building yesterday morning. Later in the day I headed for DesignSlinger to learn a bit about the history of this [...]
Is Chicago designed to encourage drunk driving?
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 number of t [...]
What Philip and Erika like about living at 235 Van Buren
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 boug [...]
Why we haven’t written about Prentice
The heated controversy over the preservation of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Streeterville is near an endgame following yester [...]
Side by side Wright bootleg homes sound an alarm
A year ago we invited you to consider this quote from John Shelette Van Bergen, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright:
Since the American architect h [...]