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.
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
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
(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.)
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.”
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
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
.
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.
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.
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.
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;
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
PersonalityThat 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.
email
responses to
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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..
