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The Union League Club One recently held their grand opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Union League Club One facility at 2157 W. 19th St. in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Union League Club representatives and architects from Antunovich Associates, discuss the collaborative approach credited to the renovation’s success.

 

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Aspiring Architects Boldly Take on Design Challenges

 

CHICAGO, IL | APRIL 29, 2013 | Friday, April 26th witnessed the conclusion to the 5th annual International Mock Firms Competition as the Awards Presentation brought the weekends' festivities to a close. Chicago's iconic Congress Hotel on South Michigan Avenue once again served as host to over 90 students representing 30 amateur "firms" from elite architectural design programs from all over the United States in addition to mock firms from Sweden and Spain.

With a theme of "Rediscover the Future," 2013 participants were challenged to conceive, construct and commercialize specific commissions which included super-tall towers with healthcare programs for Chicago and Amman, Jordan in addition to multi-occupancy housing for college students.

For a period of 8 months, aspiring young architects collaborated with each other, instructors and outside professionals to produce tall building and residential housing projects to present before some of Chicago's top design professionals. Each year with 2013 being no exception, these industry leaders serving as jurors express surprise at the level of quality they see especially among the high school programs in attendance.

When the final ballets were counted, Azahar, a mock firm from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain took International Mock Firm of the Year honors while Studio 2102 of Grand Haven H.S., Grand Haven, Michigan took National Mock Firm of the Year honors for their residential design. Lemont High School's 5S Designs from Lemont, IL achieved 1st as the 2013 National Skyscraper Champion.

Full results on mock firms page

 

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Thomas Beeby Receives  2013 Driehaus Award

By Diana Buendia || wbez.org. || Oak Park native Thomas H. Beeby will receive the Richard H. Driehaus Prize Saturday. Beeby is the architect behind buildings including the Harold Washington Library and the Harris Theater at Millennium Park. It's the first time a Chicago area architect is taking home the international award. Follow link to article at wbez.org

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7 buildings make Preservation Chicago most endangered list

This year's list of Chicago's most endangered buildings was announced Tuesday by Preservation Chicago's executive director Jonathan Fine. Seven buildings were included in the advocacy group's list. St. James Catholic Church is on this list

 

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Also in the news locally..

 

Lee Bey resigns as executive director of Chicago Central Area Committee
Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago architecture firm Goettsch Partners promotes two to principal
REjournals.com

City to seek fed money to finish Riverwalk

news@northloop.com

Mayor Emanuel Announces Retrofit Chicago: Commercial Bldgs Initiative
eNews Park Forest

Building projects discussed at D113
 

National


 

 

Japan's Toyo Ito wins Pritzker architecture prize


Chicago Tribune | In a return to form for the most prestigious award in architecture, Japan's Toyo Ito has won this year's Pritzker Prize. After honoring younger and lesser-known figures in recent years -- including 49-year-old Chinese architect Wang Shu in 2012 -- the ...

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                                                               Image courtesy of Studio Gang Architects 

 

CHICAGO-BASED STUDIO GANG CARVE OUT

THEIR NICHE ON THE NEW YORK HIGH LINE


World Architecture News


Of great importance to the Chicago-based Studio Gang is the movement of light across the building and the shadows that this will cast on its surroundings. The solar-path diagrams shown to the left demonstrate how the team has sliced off certain areas ...

 

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MINNEAPOLIS SKYLINE ABOUT TO SOAR WITH NEW 36-STORY APT

 

Rentals continue to win out over condos in downtown Minneapolis, where a developer has decided to build a 355-unit apartment tower at a site where they had previously planned to build condos.

Brian Gordon, vice president of Chicago-based Magellan Development, said the proposed complex is geared toward young professionals and will have a 24-hour doorman, outdoor pool, movie theater and business center. The site in question is at 14th Street and LaSalle, a parking lot near Loring Park, a high-density residential neighborhood along the south edge of downtown Minneapolis.

High-rise development in the neighborhood has been controversial. An earlier proposal by developer Brad Hoyt to build a 21-story tower on a hill overlooking Loring Park was defeated.

Full story at startribune.com

 

 

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Also in the news Nationally..

Jeanne Gang Hopes to Make NYC Debut, Isn't Letting Any Silly High Line
New York, NY

Solomon Cordwell Buenz design to take shape in Houston
Houston, TX

Macy's flagship getting controversial $400 million makeover
New York, NY

Dallas builds bridges to arts & architecture
Dallas, TX

Stalled overhaul of Las Vegas Convention Center to be restarted
Las Vegas, NV

Spire's Antenna Spurs Towering Spat
New York, NY

Fort Mason Center contest calls on top designers
San Francisco, CA

A house fit for the Jetsons: Green Bay residence evokes modern style
Green Bay, WI

Architecture helps the new History Colorado Center capture the moment
Denver, CO

Sleek, Chic Hangout ... a Garage
Miami Beach, FL

Santa Monica’s “green street” breaks ground

Santa Monica, CA

Long Beach thinks big with plans for a $320 million Seaside Village

Los Angeles, CA…

 


 

Additional stories in Archives

 

International


 

 

MUSEE DES CONFLUENCES

 

Architect: COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Lyon, France

Scheduled Completion: 2014

Net Floor Area: 29,700 m2

            The Musee de Confluences is one of the latest designs by the Austrian architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au in France. The museum is a new cultural center and museum in Lyon, France, that will house a museum of science and society as well as cultural rooms for the arts. The museum will host nine exhibits, three of which are permanent and six of which will be temporary, as well as four discover spaces and two auditoriums. The building also features a series of ramps and surfaces that transition themselves from the interior to the exterior of the building.

 

Complete article at archdaily.com

 

 

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CANADA GROWS TALLER

 

CTBUH Study Finds Toronto Most Active City in Western Hemisphere

 

 

Canada is in the midst of a tall building boom. Twenty six buildings taller than 150 meters have been built in Canada since 2005, according to a new research study by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.

 

Canada added four buildings taller than 200 meters in 2012, the most Canada has ever completed in a single year, the CTBUH study found.

 

The epicenter of Canadian tall building development is Toronto, where 15 buildings taller than 150 meters are under construction, more than any other city in the western hemisphere.

 

More noteworthy findings:

 

By the end of 2015 the number of buildings in Canada taller than 150 meters is expected to increase to 74, up from 26 in 1995.

Toronto is projected to have 44 buildings taller than 150 meters by 2015, up from 13 in 2005.

In 2001, 26 of the 27 buildings taller than 150 meters in Canada were office or hotel buildings; today 17 of the 18 buildings taller than 150 meters are entirely or partially residential.

Two Canadian buildings have won the CTBUH Best Tall Building Americas Awards in recent years, Absolute Towers in Mississauga (2012) and Manitoba Hydro Place in Winnipeg (2009).

Follow link to full article at the CTBUH

 

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Also in the news Internationally..

 

Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect, dies at 104- Brazil
 

China goes up in 'megatall' league - China

 

AS+GG unveils design for supertall mixed use towers for Seoul - S.Korea

 

Skidmore Owings on Design Team Shortlist for new Embassy - Mexico

 

North Korean Skyscraper to Open, Only Two Decades Late - North Korea
 

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Casting Call

 

 

On Location: Chicago

 

(Above) Actors Jesse Spencer, Eamonn Walker, Charlie Barnett, and Marina City in a scene filmed on the State Street Bridge on February 5 for the NBC television show Chicago Fire. (Click on image to view larger version.)

 

CHICAGO FIRE'S STATE STREET SCENE

 

28-Feb-13 – Marina City and the State Street Bridge made their Chicago Fire debut as a scene filmed on February 5 aired Wednesday night on NBC.

 

In the three-minute scene for the episode Better to Lie, a Chicago Fire Department truck goes east on Wacker Drive, then west on Wacker Drive, and finally arrives from the north on State Street just shy of the bridge. They find a Buick LaSabre has struck a bicycle messenger and crashed into a light pole. The driver of the car is gone. A passenger is stuck. The messenger is under the car, gone to bike messenger heaven.

 

Fire fighters soon track down the driver on the State Street Bridge – on the wrong side of the railing – looking like he is going to jump into the Chicago River. Trying to lure him back, Peter Mills, played by Charlie Barnett, tells the man that the messenger is ok – which is kind of untrue – but it works.

“I figured it was better to lie to him and get him down,” says Mills. “He can get over it later.”

By Steven Dahlman | Loop North News | Published 28-Feb-13 9:37 AM

 

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“CHICAGO FIRE” PUTS ITS TITLE CITY AT CENTER STAGE

 

By Karl Paloucek | October 11, 2012

We think it’s safe to say that Chicago is officially back on the film and television map. The city’s always been an attractive place to shoot — rich in history and architecture, and possessing an abundance of patina. But until the tax incentives put in place a few years back, it was sadly underutilized as a setting. Now the city finds itself frequently at center stage, from the hit series Boss to NBC’s burning new drama, Chicago Fire. We talked with series regular David Eigenberg (Sex and the City) and executive producer and location scout Joe Chappelle about the new series and the city that holds all the action. Follow link to channelguidemagblog.com complete story

 

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DHOOM 3: BACK IN ACTION FILMING IN CHICAGO

 

Dhoom 3: Back in Action caused quite a stir this week among Bollywood fans in Chicago.The film is the latest in the popular Bollywood buddy cop series, starring Indian actor Aamir Khan as a thief who is a skilled acrobat able to elude the hero cop of the series and his sidekick, played by Abhishek Bachchan and Uday Chopra

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Dhoom 3 filmed scenes at Wabash and Randolph in Chicago last week, on lower Michigan Ave, from South Water to Hubbard St., on lower Wacker from Lake Shore Dr. to Post Place, Hubbard St, from lower Michigan to Rush, and mid-level Wacker from Columbus to Michigan in Chicago.

Read the whole story: onlocationvacations.com

 

 

 

 

CHICAGO FINALLY ARRIVES ON (VIDEO) FILM

 

Excerpt from Ryan Smith | RedEye --The star of the most anticipated video game of 2013 isn't Super Mario, Lara Croft or Nathan Drake. It's not a person at all, but a place.

Give up?

Chicago edged out a long list of other cities to take the starring role in "Watch Dogs," an open-world sci-fi action game unveiled for the first time earlier this month at the E3 Expo in L.A. Even in the game's early stages, developer Ubisoft Montreal seems to have recreated Chicago in a way that's never been done before in gaming.

From its landmarks, buildings and architecture down to its people and culture, the Chicago of "Watch Dogs" looks like the Chicago of reality. In the "Watch Dogs" demo shown at E3, mysterious hacker Aiden Pearce wanders the crowded streets of the Loop, leaps over "L" tracks and stealthily breaks into theater, called the Ambrose, that looks a lot like the Chicago Theatre.

To make sure the game properly captured the city and its traditions, not to mention its people and their accents, several Ubisoft Montreal teams took photos of the city, listened to Chicagoans talk and even sat down with Chicago police to ask them about local police work.

Read complete story at redeyechicago.com
 

 

 

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 Community Events

   

 

 CHICAGO PULLMAN-CREATING CULTURAL RENAISSANCE   

 

June 19, 2013

12:15 - 1pm

 

Hashim Sarkis

Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Muslim Societies, Harvard Graduate School of Design


CAF Lunch Talks Series
Chicago Architecture Foundation
224 S. Michigan Ave
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This lunch program will feature presentations by principle organizations transforming Pullman into Chicago's premier far-south cultural destination. Extraordinary capital investment, robust cultural programming, creative reuse of railcar factory for artists' live/work/exhibit space and broad-based support to designate Pullman as a National HIstoric Park are steaming ahead toward neighborhood transformation.Free, open to the public;

 

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Upcoming Events Page!

 

 

 Today's Video Pick

 

  

  WELLS COMMUNITY PARK

 

 

This new recreation area for Wells Senior High School and the East Village community designed by Ghafari Associates will feature multiple program and event types. competitive experience.

 

Check it out in

Architecture in Motion

 

 

Quotable

 

“This city offers so many different visual looks, from downtown and the skyscrapers to the neighborhoods — neighborhoods that I kind of knew about before we started scouting locations, like Bucktown, that I didn’t really know that well. And I’m discovering how really diverse this city is, and how beautiful it is.”

 

Quote in Channel Guide Magazine by executive producer and location scout Joe Chappelle on location here in the city for the new NBC drama Chicago Fire.

 

October 11,  2012

 

Good Reads

 

LIVING STREETS

 

Strategies for Crafting

Public Space

 

Lesley Bain,  Barbara Gray

and Dave Rodgers

 

John Wiley & Sons, Inc

ISBN: 978-0-470-90381-0
March 2012
336 pages, Hardcover US $85.00

 

Urban Composition: Developing Community through Design, by Mark C. Childs, the writer of Squares, is a perfect example of a book that inspires readers to think outside of the box. In the book, Childs points out that cities and towns are one of humanity’s greatest and most complex achievements, however, not a single successful city can be the outcome of one person’s or organization’s ideas.

 

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URBAN COMPOSITION

 

Developing Community through Design

 

Mark C. Childs

 

Princeton Architectural Press

ISBN: 9781616890520
May 2012
144 pages, Paperback $24.95

 

Urban Composition: Developing Community through Design, by Mark C. Childs, the writer of Squares, is a perfect example of a book that inspires readers to think outside of the box. In the book, Childs points out that cities and towns are one of humanity’s greatest and most complex achievements, however, not a single successful city can be the outcome of one person’s or organization’s ideas.

         

More on this book and others on our

 

Good Reads page

 

 

Inside Today

 

CO2NGRESS GATEWAY TOWERS  

 

Two architectural students in Chicago have designed a building so sustainable that it actually cleans the air around it. Danny Mui and designed the lopsided towers  sit above the Eisenhower Expressway

 

Check it out in

Greenline

 

 

Preservation Station

Winner — Christopher Rutt Best Exterior Rehabilitation

 

2012 DRIEHAUS BUNGALOW AWARDS

 

The Rutts were tired of their backyard’s enclosed porch with brown siding and lackluster landscaping, so they decided to open up - and spruce up - the whole area. Follow the link to check out the results.

 

 

More on our

Preservation page!

 

 

Term to Learn

  

 

SOLEPLATE

 

 Also called "bottom plate," refers to a horizontal wooden framing member affixed to a subfloor upon which vertical studs or partitions are aligned and fastened.

 

  This and additional terms in

Archtionary

 

 

On The Board

 

212 WEST ILLINOIS

 

Height: 25 Stories, 250 feet

Developer: Illinois Franklin Associates

Architect: Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture

Groundbreaking: Feb 2013, Completion: April 2014

 

Check out this and other projects at

On The Board!

 

 

Today's Top Ten

 

  TOP 10 DESTINATIONS FOR

ART & ARCHITECTURE

 

 

In the Travel section of the Chicago Tribune, we found a Reuters piece on the top 10 global destinations for art & architecture. The list is definitely a conversation starter to say the least.

 

Did Chicago make this list?

 

More on

Today's Top Ten page

 

 

 

Do you think you have what it takes to host your own series on HGTV? Would you love the challenge of competing in a design-based reality show?  Here's your chance to be on Design Star!

 

Design Expertise: We're looking for great designers. Are you pushing the design envelope? Are you going all “green”? Are you taking the old and making it new and fresh? Whatever your design angle, we want to hear from you!

 

Personality That Pops: We want to see someone who shines. Design ability and expertise are most important, but you could wind up hosting your own show…do you have the personality millions want to watch?

 

Passion for Your Work: We're searching for designers who will bring the world of design and decorating to life in their very own passionate and unique way. The world of design is ever-expanding, so the more invested you are, the better.

HGTV Design Star is an on-air competition to name the network's next star. Finalists will compete in design-based challenges with one to two designers being eliminated each week. The contestants will be narrowed until the winner is announced in the final episode of the series. Upon which, the winner will become the host of their own design show!

 

If you are interested in applying, please email us with the following information which will be passed on to HGTV:

 

Name:
Age:
Hometown:
Phone:
Photo:
Brief description of your design background 

 

Outstanding and personable architects in the Chicago area are encouraged to apply.

 

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Firm Foundation

 

TOURING THE NEW OFFICES

OF CANON DESIGN

 

Newly located at 205 & 225 North Michigan Ave in downtown Chicago, this single level office spreads across two buildings with a connecting bridge at a total of 57,000 sq ft.  Cannon Design is a perfect blend of open and private spaces, allowing its employees to choose from a variety of work environments in order to complete it’s most productive and successful work..

 

Read the full text at

Firm Foundation

 

 


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