Featured web
videos highlighting Chicago area subjects as they relate to
architecture
A Realtor's
Look Inside Chicago's "Terra Cotta Row"
Terra Cotta Row is a cluster
of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake
View. The most impressive of them is the Henry Rokham house,
which is so detailed with terra cotta rosettes, plaques, and
even a front fence that it’s easy to miss another set of
artistic ornaments: the home’s numerous stained-glass
windows. Chicago Magazine and Prudential Rubloff gives us an
inside tour.
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MCCORMICK
PLACE, DYETT MIDDLE SCHOOL AND UNION STATION
Lee Bey, an architecture
critic and former Deputy Chief of Staff for Mayor Daley,
joined the Bob Sirott on Fox Chicago News for a report on
interests in local architecture. He spoke on the man behind
one of the most recognizable - and most controversial -
buildings in Chicago, about the efforts to save a school
designed by Ferris Bueller’s architect and Union Station.
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"THE LOOP"
A Vimeo video by Michael Salisbury
posted on gadling.com features a look at the city's
architecture from the front and rear of a CTA "L" car
traveling around the loop. While there is no narration, the
images of the featured buildings are highlighted by the "relaxed" sounds of
Boards of Canada
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"A CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE DOCUMENTARY"
A brief overview of the
architectural style and history of two Chicago buildings -
The Rookery and The Federal Reserve Building.
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"CHICAGO BUILDINGS OFTEN OVERLOOKED"
Architecture critic Lee Bey
joined FOX Chicago News to talk about what's old and what's
new on Chicago’s landscape -- the buildings we live
alongside but sometimes overlook.
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BUILDING FUTURES
Charles Thornton is renowned
for his engineering achievements around the globe: The
Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia, Taipei 101 in Taiwan and
Comiskey Park in Chicago are just some of the masterpieces
created by Thornton Tomasetti, the company he and a college
classmate founded in 1977. Thornton, 71, also mentors young
people through a program called ACE (Architects, Contractors
and Engineers.) Here, Thornton talks about his life calling
as a mentor.
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CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE
Enjoy Illinois put together
this video on the city's architecture covering many of the
major points of style, buildings and related organizations"
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CHICAGO'S LEGACY OF ARCHITECTURE
From its skyscrapers to its
bridges, amazing feats of engineering have made the skyline
of Chicago immediately identifiable and completely
unforgettable. CNN's Richard Quest reports on the legacy of
architecture in the Windy City in this CNN segment of
"Future Cities"
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UNDERSTANDING THE CHICAGO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Chicago Cultural Historian Tim
Samuelson narrates this brief video highlighting the basic
elements which comprise the "The Chicago School of
Architecture." To illustrate this narrative, the landmark
Marquette Building designed in
1895 by the local architecture
firm of Holabird & Roche
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CONTEMPORARY FLAIR IN LINCOLN PARK RESIDENCE
Distinguished Chicago
architect Avi Lothan says he designed this Lincoln Park home
for his family with his eye on the interplay between indoor
and outdoor spaces. .It’s a sharp contemporary house tucked
among far more traditional Lincoln Park homes from the 19th
and early 20th centuries, but Lothan connected it to them in
both overt and subtle ways.
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CHICAGO
LAKESIDE
Chicago Magazine recently
posted this video by McCaffrey investments on its plans to
develop the 600 acres of the former U.S. Steel site off the
city's far southeast lakefront
area. It is narrated by Bill Kurtis.
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"VERTIGATA"
VIDEO ENTRY BY "VOX"
2011 MOCK
FIRMS COLLEGIATE WINNER
This week
we're featuring a video submission from the winning "firm"
of the 2011 Mock Firms international Skyscraper Competition
recently concluded in May. The competition required
competitors to imagine a new commercial skyscraper to be
sited in
Stockholm
Sweden under the theme “Architecture that Works,” while
developing a mock firm identity (VOX)
and design process. The first place entry hailed were
Cal-Poly exchange students studying in Denmark at the
Danish
Institute for Study Abroad.
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HGTV 2011
URBAN OASIS - TRUMP TOWER
HGTV is taking
its second annual HGTV Urban Oasis Giveaway to new heights,
creating a custom, contemporary residence on the 35th floor
of the Trump International Hotel & Tower® in Chicago. HGTV's
popular designer Vern Yip has drafted plans for the 1,000
square-foot residence that will be the centerpiece of a fall
2011 grand-prize package.
