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Mile-high tower wars: How tall is too tall?
Independent - London, England, UK
George Efstathiou, a managing partner at the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, declares that "the age of the super-skyscrapers is starting ...

Jeanne Gang: The Art of Nesting
Metropolis Magazine - New York, NY
It will also be one of the greenest and most appealing tall buildings in a place that has produced some of the country’s best architecture. ...

Wright's 'shining brow'
Crain's Chicago Business
"I was completely blown away," says Mr. Fried, president of 37signals LLC, a software design company in Chicago. Beyond the architect's attention to detail, ...

See-through house opens to the public
Crain's Chicago Business
"They're the architectural paparazzi," says Whitney French, the historic site director at Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's glass-and-steel house that's been a ...

He pushed limits of architecture
Chicago Tribune
By Blair Kamin | Tribune critic Walter A. Netsch Jr., the maverick, strong-willed Chicago architect whose geometrically complex buildings, including the ..

What role does architecture serve in houses of worship?
Chicago Tribune
Does belief shape architecture? Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository, wrote in her blog that she was overcome when she ...

An exclusive look inside the Art Institute's new wing with the ...
Chicago Tribune
"This could only be in Chicago," said the building's Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect, Renzo Piano, during a recent tour, as if to counter ...

Scraping the Sky, and Then Some
New York Times
Icons like the Empire State Building in New York and the Sears Tower in Chicago, which have long been enshrined among the tallest buildings in the world, ...

Chicago Cultural Center: A Historic Landmark
Gather.com - Boston
... in Chicago but also the historic architecture that serves as a backdrop to everything that makes up this wonderfully diverse and culturally adept city. ...

How Trump Tower opened while still adding on floors
By Tempo
"As far as we know, it's the largest building under construction while part of it is open," says Pauline Saliga, director of the Chicago-based Society of Architectural Historians. "The Blue Cross-Blue Shield building [now being ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

Modernist marvels: A worldwide tour of architecture's spare structures
USA Today
The early-20th century American Modernists also have a strong presence in Chicago, described as "the first city of American architecture" by Dr. Greg BC ...

Chicago district evokes blue-collar history
Deseret News - Salt Lake City, UT
All this was part of the plan by architect Solon Spencer Beman, who was just 27 when Pullman hired him to design not just a community but a lifestyle. ...

Certain houses exert special pull on buyers
Crain's Chicago Business
When he moved on to his own apartments, he sought similar architectural details such as wood floors, woodwork or built-ins. "You look at something built in ...

Communities keep 'em down on the ranch
Chicago Tribune
"About 99 percent of the homes we sell at our Del Webb projects are ranches," said Sean Degen, national vice president of architectural services at Pulte ...

Re-Sampling Ornament, Basel
Wallpaper.com London, UK
Of course architectural styles over the centuries have varied markedly along the form-function spectrum and decoration or ornament in architecture is one of ...

Catalog castles: How mail-order homes helped transform Lake Geneva ...
By Dan Plutchak, editor
... clubs and architectural associations, and has been featured in many local newspapers and television newscasts. Hunter was hired by the city of Elgin to document Sears homes in their municipality, as well as West Chicago, ...
Walworth County News of The Week - http://www.theweekextra.com/news/

Building Big: Chicago architecture draws visitors from all over the world
Reading Eagle - Reading, PA
The city’s rise in the world of architecture began after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed swaths of buildings, and the late 19th century saw the ...

Chicago architects feeling the pain of economic downturn
By Tempo
But there are dark clouds on the horizon, none more ominous than the Architecture Billings Index, a survey of the market for architectural services compiled by the Washington, DC-based American Institute of Architects. ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

What’s that in the Sky? A Bird? A Plane? Renzo Piano’s Addition to ...
By thebram31
An admittedly much better photo from the Chicago Tribune, by an unknown photographer. Perhaps they weren’t using a camera phone, taking pictures at night, in the rain. More Chicago architecture news to come.
The Chicago Art Blog - http://thechicagoartblog.wordpress.com

Trump Tower promises new opportunities, but underscores old divisions
Medill Reports - Chicago
by Renita D. Young Local Architects who teach at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture say Trump Tower Chicago has a strong structure, ...

Driehaus to be honored by National Trust, HGTV
By Tempo
A Chicago native, he has emerged as one of the country’s leading advocates for classical architecture and historic preservation. Both individually and through the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and the Richard H. ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

Tigerman Sees Red (and Topaz)
Metropolis Magazine - New York, NY
Why is architectural education so incomprehensible? It’s to perpetuate a myth. In the same way that people talk in an arcane language. ...

urban skyscrapers mirror landscapes of the American West
Chicago Tribune
They have inspired architects in the past and continue to inspire them today, as digital architecture makes possible new ways for architects to evoke the ...

Mansion from Chicago’s gilded age gains new luster.
Medill Reports - Chicago, IL
In a city that reveres modern architecture by such 20th century masters as Mies van der Rohe, Driehaus proselytizes on behalf of earlier art. ...

C'mon in, the water's fine
Chicago Tribune
Homes feature coastal-style architecture that is relatively rare in the Midwest, Tauke said. In its early phases, seven Newport Cove homes are occupied and ...

The battle for Grant Park
Chicago Tribune
Grant Park would in no way be violated by the addition of the Chicago Children's Museum but, rather, enhanced by Krueck & Sexton's innovative architecture. ...

Children's museum: Planning Council now opposes it; Museum ...
By Tempo
... architect Mark Sexton of Krueck & Sexton Architects released new drawings of the museum's plans--an apparent response to criticism that the museum has provided little useful visual information to the public before the Chicago Plan ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

CHICAGO: Capturing one city's rich architectural history
Illinois Examiner

It passes the corncob-like Marina Towers, the sprawling Merchandise Mart and glass-and-steel skyscrapers - a tapestry of new and old that draws architecture enthusiasts from around the world to the city that famed architect Daniel ...
Richard Rogers lectures at Art Institute next week
By Tempo
London architect Richard Rogers, last year’s winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, will lecture at The Art Institute of Chicago on Thursday, May 15 at 6 pm Tickets for his talk, in the museum’s Rubloff Auditorium, are $15, ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

New Children's Museum plans still don't answer basic questions
Chicago Tribune
... the latest design for the Chicago Children's Museum's proposed move to Grant Park is fiendishly clever. As an essay in the art of architecture and city ...

Historic Pullman district recovers from fire
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill, SC
"It's a micro-version of the city of Chicago in its diversity," says Shymanski, an architect. "It's one of the few neighborhoods on the far south side that ...

Joffrey's MoMo tower: Even with some no-no's, it's mostly a go-go
By Tempo
Designed by Chicago architect Laurence Booth and developed by Bill Smith, head of Chicago’s Smithfield Properties, the high-rise is called MoMo (short for Modern Momentum), though Smith says that could change to Joffrey Tower if enough ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

Upscale metals changes color, form and building trends in Chicago
Medill Reports - Chicago, IL
Since the 1960s, the same process that left the annoying green spot on your hand has marked architectural and structural innovations for buildings in ...

Children's Museum releases aerial view of plan, says more drawings ...
Chicago Tribune
Architecture looks different from the ground than it does from the air. We still don't have a close-up, ground-level perspective of the entry pavilion, ...

The Wrigley--make that, Mars--Building?
By Tempo
"London has Big Ben, Paris has the Eiffel Tower, and Chicago has the Wrigley Building," the architectural historian Sally Chappell once wrote. That is an overstatement, perhaps--Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center are the city's ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

‘Green roofs’ help take the heat off urban environments
Providence Journal - Providence, RI
“One of the biggest drivers is the architectural community has grasped this and run with it.” In the Midwest, interest in green roofs is sprouting up, ...

Guest Blogger: the Bilbao Effect—Does It Work on Campuses?
Chronicle of Higher Education - USA
It’s a difficult balancing act: Make a bold statement, but retain the architectural context and functionality that a campus must have. ...

Children's Museum: Show us the (real) drawings
Chicago Tribune
A reminder of that came in yesterday's New York Times, where architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff put a disturbing trend under a microscope: Real estate ...

Square Feet | Spotlight Fashioning Skylines, Not a Personality Cult
New York Times
“In most large-scale international competitions, KPF is always one of the contenders,” said Carol Willis, an architectural historian and director of the ...

Relocating Chicago Children’s Museum to Grant Park would wreak havoc
Chicago Tribune
As the Chicago Plan Commission gears up for a vote next month that almost surely will give the Chicago Children’s Museum a crucial endorsement in its ...

Lakefront Parkland for $ale in Chicago
By The Urbanophile
Almost nobody thinks this is a good idea - not the neighbors, not park advocates, not the alderman, and not even the Tribune architecture critic. However, Mayor Daley loves it. Per usual, he accepts no dissent, and has denounced critics ...
The Urbanophile - http://theurbanophile.blogspot.com/

Chicago
By esthetecyclist
But along with the ruthless pursuit of wealth and power, and Chicago exudes them both, there came artists, and artists seek commissions. Architecture is America's great art, and it follows that Chicago's contribution is in this area. ...
esthetecyclist - http://esthetecyclist.blogspot.com/

Evanston tower shrinks to 38 stories; it's not a pretty sight
Chicago Tribune
I never thought of myself as a Luddite, or that buildings categorized as skyscrapers were the ultimate expression of architectural "progress", ...

White Sox Dress Up Their Home
Forbes
"New Comiskey was really the last of the suburban stadiums," says Philip Bess, director of Notre Dame’s school of architecture. ...
Chicago History Museum Brings Architectural Photographs To Public Eye
HULIQ (press release) - Hickory, NC
The Hedrich Blesssing photograph collection documents the work of one of the finest and most widely recognized architectural photography firms in the world. ...

Unconventional and on Budget
Wall Street Journal
Krueck & Sexton had a leg up on dealing with the architectural watchdogs, having been commissioned to execute Millennium Park's technically challenging ...

Chicago Children's Museum: A first look at the plans for Grant Park
Chicago Tribune
... president and CEO of the Chicago Children’s Museum, and Mark Sexton, a principal at Krueck & Sexton architects of Chicago, made public architectural

Most Expensive Zip Codes: 60610...
By Deidre Woollard
Astor Street is a slice of Old Chicago, it began in 1880 and is home to 19th Century and 20th Century townhouses in a variety of styles. Walking down this street is an architectural feast for the eyes (for a little taste check out the ...
Luxist - http://www.luxist.com

Enlightenment, wrought in glass
Toronto Star
The Modernist era has largely sputtered to an end, but transparency remains high on the architectural agenda. These days, though, its use seems more ...

Pritzker Architecture Prize goes to
Chicago Tribune
The seven-member Pritzker Prize jury—composed of distinguished figures in the field, including Renzo Piano, the architect of the Art Institute of Chicago’s ...

Bungalow bookends
By Jeremy Gantz
Side-by-side contrasts have a way of crystallizing neighborhood architectural trends: This section of W. McLean Ave. is a concise rebuttal to those who equate all of Chicago’s old homes with... Click headline for full story...
The Chicago Methods Reporter - http://www.methodsreporter.com

Helmut Jahn plan under fire in NY
By Tempo
The story is a withering critique, written by Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff, of a newly selected plan by Chicago's Helmut Jahn and developers Tishman Speyer for New York's West Side railyards. Ouroussoff deems the plan, ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

"The Shame of it All..."
By Robert Powers
At what point does a building have enough architectural and historical merit to be worth curbing that growth? All are questions with no fixed answer, but as I see endless protests and complaints about the supposed scourge of ...
A Chicago Sojourn - http://achicagosojourn.blogspot.com/

At Aqua and other projects, Jeanne Gang offers material evidence ...
By Blair Kamin
“Jeanne is courageous,” said the Chicago architecture maven Stanley Tigerman, who has promoted her career even though, on occasion, he’s publicly chastised her. The scolding came after Gang won a 2004 city-sponsored design competition ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

Evanston skyscraper: Design quality doesn't yet offset impact
Chicago Tribune
The trouble is, Booth and the developers still haven't produced a skyscraper whose architectural quality would equal its yardstick height and justify a ...

A squeeze at Wrigley: Ballpark's key features safe, but ...
By Blair Kamin
... great Chicago firm, Holabird & Root. Light towers were added in 1988; the new bleachers in 2006. Little is known about the Cubs' present architectural inclinations, other than that the team's plans could turn out to be extensive. ...
The Skyline - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/

Colleges take security seriously in design, architect says
Medill Reports - Chicago, IL
... said associate principal Kenneth Rohlfing of the Chicago office of Perkins and Will. The architecture firm has designed many campus buildings including ...

These aren't your parents' schools
Chicago Tribune
With an outdoor pool, a shaded quadrangle and one-of-a-kind architecture, the new school persuaded her to transfer from an older public school two years ago ...

Does anyone know a builder?
Times Online - UK
... Life of a modern building – it may have been in Chicago or New York.” It was, she says, one of the defining moments that turned her into an architect. ...

Our architecture critic evaluates Trump's new restaurant
Chicago Tribune
By design: Sweet Sixteen dining By Blair Kamin | Tribune architecture critic March 1, 2008 Chicago architect Joe Valerio, who designed the new, ...

Who Says Staircases Can't Be Creative.
By Venus
It's an engineering & architectural marvel, unique & eye-catching, which just shows the advancement in glass technology that allows its use in more demanding applications. Steel ribbon staircase. Steel ribbon staircase ...

British School has split personality
Chicago Tribune
And Valerio's architectural framework makes itself felt, to some extent, most notably as the big bay windows draw in natural light, especially to an ...

On and around Drexel Boulevard
By Robert Powers
On and around its short length, however, there's a lot of magnificent architecture and interesting urban sights, remnants of its heyday as a home to some of the city's wealthiest citizens.
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Structure blends spirituality and sustainability
Chicago Tribune
And the synagogue, which was designed by Chicago architect Carol Ross Barney, turns out to be better at blending these two on the inside than on the outside ...

The State of American Architecture
BusinessWeek
First up: New York by Clifford A. Pearson What's generating buzz in Chicago might not resonate in LA And the issues driving design in Miami might not mean ...

Discover Real Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
Those are places where four people we turned to who really know our town -- architectural know-it-all Lee Bey, Chicago historian Tim Samuelson, ...

Art Museums
Hartford Courant
This is what gave us hodgepodge museum architecture. Now corporate logos have replaced individual family names. Too bad no corporation in either Chicago or ...

Piano in Chicago
By Edward Lifson
Piano has benefited from a trend away from sculpturally expressive museums to bland designs that are invariably described as "architecture serving art." It's true that spectacular atriums and strangely shaped galleries can make ...
The New Modernist - Edward Lifson.com - http://edwardlifson.blogspot.com/

Architecture of the future? Probably not
By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
... and Mies van der Rohe's novel Lake Shore Drive apartment towers in Chicago, completed in 1951, were the first example of the steel-and-glass-curtain wall that would dominate commercial architecture for the next two decades. ...
IFTF's Future Now - http://future.iftf.org/

The man with the plan
Crain's Chicago Business
"Make no little plans," the rallying cry attributed to 19th-century Chicago architect and city planner Daniel Burnham, may seem cliché nowadays, ...

Form Follows Feathers: Bird-Friendly Architecture
Architectural Record
By Ted Smalley Bowen Santiago Calatrava’s 2000-foot-tall Chicago Spire is a lofty experiment in bird-safe design. The residential skyscraper is rising in ...

North Avenue Beach House
... Kearns Architects and is a faithful reworking of the previous beachhouse that sat on the site. Built in 1939, the earlier beachhouse was designed by ...
Lee Bey: The Urban Observer - http://leebey.com/

Is Chicago's revival, a model for Miami?
MiamiHerald.com - Miami, FL
How far can Miami mirror Chicago, which enjoys a rich tradition of architecture and planning, from the World's Fair of 1893 to the famed 1909 Plan of ...

Rediscovering a Heroine of Chicago Architecture
New York Times
Ms. Birmingham points out that architectural historians who acknowledge Mahony have tended to focus on her relationships with men and on her physical ...

High Design for Low-Income Housing

The Wall Street Journal

Ben Casselman-December 28, 2007: Public housing used to mean fortress-like blocks and soulless rows of cheaply built townhouses. But now there's a new model: privately developed homes and apartments that are well-designed, ...and attractive enough to...

Sustainable? Modern, International and Prairie Styles Considered
By Elizabeth Ann
Perhaps the man with the most recognized name in Chicago Architecture (if not the practice as a whole) is Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright approached the task and art of architecture unlike most others of the 19th century. ...
Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture - http://greenbrickhouse.blogspot.com/

Historical Overview of Wright
By Daniel Soderberg
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, Chicago, Illinois, achieved international renown in 1909. One day there in Michigan City Lou drove by a sign which caught his eye. “John Lloyd Wright, Architect.” Lou thought “Oh my god, ...
dsoderblog - http://www.dsoderblog.com

Sweet Home Chicago
By Sharon
Wright acclaimed "the new reality that is space instead of matter" and, about architectural interiors, said that the "reality of a building is not the container but the space within." The WW Willits house, built in Highland Park, ...
CHICAGO HISTORY: - http://chicagohistory-sharonwilliams.blogspot.com/

Real Chicago?
Chicago Sun-Times
... Mike Kelly, says a team of top architects put their heads together to design buildings in the "tradition of authentic Chicago architecture. ...

Reach for the sky
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
By Diane Heilenman As 2007 closes, it ends an era of architectural destination-ism and one-upmanship, from London to Louisville. Ground-touching is becoming ...

New kid on the block
Chicago Sun-Times
The new Spertus Institute for Jewish Studies, designed by the Chicago architecture firm of Krueck + Sexton, is a head-turner, and all the more so as part of ...

Sustainable Architecture Benefits Chicago's Underprivileged
By Jason Phillip
The urban fabric of Chicago is getting greener every year. Since 1989, more than 500000 trees have been planted, more than 80 miles of landscaped medians constructed, and 2 million square feet of green roofs built or negotiated—more ...
Green Options - http://greenoptions.com

Airport face-lifts smooth out wrinkles for fliers
USA Today
Ben Lao, an airport architect at Chicago-based Ricondo & Associates, says his firm strives for designs that keep passengers making steady progress toward ...

In Miles of Alleys, Chicago Finds Its Next Environmental Frontier
New York Times
Michael David Martin, an associate professor and associate chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, specializes in the ...

New neighborhood bursts onto the city landscape
Chicago Sun-Times
... with an award-winning site plan by the Chicago architectural firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill. buyers have been a mix of young people and empty nesters, ...

The New Chicago School: Green Building
By Barbara Kessler
But, exactly how will Chicago achieve its goal of dominating this most recent architectural frontier? And just how far along is it in its quest? "We currently have 130 that are going toward LEED certification, and we should have a lot ...
greenrightnow.com - http://www.greenrightnow.com

Two by Sullivan
By Mark Scott Abeln
He greatly influenced the Chicago and Prairie styles of architecture. The relationship between architectural modernism and church architecture is often viewed as ambiguous at best, and is usually condemned as being destructive to the ...
Rome of the West - http://www.romeofthewest.com/

Gleaming new building houses Chicago Jewish museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
... is getting a big boost this weekend with its reopening in a new $55 million building that adds another architectural gem to Chicago's lakefront. ...

Paulo Mendes da Rocha: in step with the cosmos
Los Angeles Times
But Mendes da Rocha's international stock has soared since April 2006, when the Chicago-based Hyatt Foundation awarded him its annual Pritzker Architecture ...

Pompidou Fetes Richard Rogers, From Lloyd's to Cheese Grater
Bloomberg - USA
This year he has won the Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement, as well as the architectural profession's equivalent of the Nobel Prize ...

Red Tape Stalls Repair of Katrina-Wrecked Landmark Cottages
Bloomberg - USA
``We also think these are important buildings because they show a morphing of one architectural style to another,'' P'Pool says. While difficult to classify ...

The sky's the limit in Chicago
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The architectural playground gave birth to the world's first skyscraper. Other buildings were erected over the ensuing decades, ranging from daredevil to ...

How architecture firms name themselves
Slate - USA
During the 1950s, SOM was the leading corporate architectural practice in the country, and its offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco produced ...

Green Home Building Blossoms in Chicago
Environment News Service - USA
Its California Modernist design, by Melinda Gray of Gray Matter Architecture, uses solar panels, high-performance windows and insulation, recycled and ...

The Chicago Athenaeum launches a world green Good Design program ...
Canadian Architect
Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have joined forces in Europe and ...

Chicago Spire Identity
By Gavin
"It is an incredibly exciting scheme in a city that produced the world's first skyscraper in 1885 and embraced the work of architectural masters such as Mies Van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright," says Mark Noë, Group Managing Director ...

Chicago Recapped
By Oswegan
Chicago is a remarkable city, quite large, yet surprisingly easy to navigate on foot. What is immediately apparent as you arrive is the way that its rich history directly competes with its own modern appeal. Beautiful old architecture ...
The Oswegan - http://oswegan.blogspot.com/

Windy City architecture blows into City Centre
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
The Chicago School of Architecture worked very well," says Daniels vice-president Niall Haggart. He says the Chicago gets away from the ornate roof ...

Rethinking the Office Environment
BusinessWeek
That was also the tactic adopted by Chicago architecture and interior design firm VOA Associates when called on to redesign the dreary, cubicle-lined office ...

Tower power
Scotsman - United Kingdom
The secret of Chicago's architecture is not only the external curves, columns, cornices, façades and entrances but the breathtaking interiors. ...

More green building projects sprouting up in Chicago
Medill Reports - Chicago, IL
The building is one of many in Chicago now seeking certification from the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) ...

Art Museum Expansion: A Constructive Trend?
Washington Post
Splashy, attention-getting buildings can start to matter more than what goes on inside them; curators complain that architectural splash can actually make ...

Architectural rebound: after years of dull home design, Chicago is ...
By Barry Pearce

But in just four short years, Chicago has seen a sea change in residential design. Glass and steel are suddenly in fashion. Facades are curving and shimmering and even spiraling skyward. Architects are experimenting with massing and color, balconies and rooflines. ...
New Homes Magazine - http://yochicago.com/magazine

New skyscrapers are transforming Chicago
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
In downtown Chicago, already home to some of the world's finest architecture including designs by Frank Lloyd Wright, many other towers are under ...

Prairie Style architecture: Say what?
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison, WI
"I think it refers to that period of architecture, particularly in Chicago and Madison, which has the sense of openness and freedom that the architects back ...

A bridge not too far
By Marc Geelhoed
The 264000 square-foot space will include the museum's educational spaces, along with galleries for contemporary art, modern art (yes, there's a difference; no, this is not the space to explain it), photography and architecture. ...
Deceptively Simple - http://deceptivelysimple.typepad.com/simple/

Forever Open, Clear, and Free
Chicago Reader
The debate isn't about the architecture--Krueck and Sexton are among the best Chicago has to offer. It's not about whether Grant Park is a park for the ...

The Skyscraper: Still Soaring
BusinessWeek
From its humble, naive beginnings in Chicago after the fire of 1871; its idealistic representation in early European Modernism; its apex as the glam symbol ...

Unity Temple
Chicago Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson brings us the story of the rebirth of Oak Park's Unity Temple, which Frank Lloyd Wright turned into a ground-breaking work of cubist architecture after it burned down from a lightning strike.
Eight Forty-Eight - Chicago Public Radio - http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_848.aspx

Top Urban Enclaves
Forbes
... or if the type of architecture in a particular neighborhood is protected in some way," says Deborah Fischer, a broker at Koenig & Strey in Chicago. ...

Architecture Of Chicago
By NCY
Chicago has a diverse and multi cultural history of its architecture due to diversity of the city's historical events and personalities. Two architectural practices, the balloon frame and Chicago School of Architecture, made Chicago the ...

Touch the sky
Financial Times - London, England, UK
... has coincided with an architectural movement towards creating icons. In the original high-rise cities, New York and Chicago, the design of buildings was ...

Tomorrow, USA
Concierge - New York, NY
Architecture's globe-trotting stars have joined the game, including Santiago Calatrava, who recently won approval for the Chicago Spire, a 150-story condo ...

VOA Renews and Expands at 224 S. Michigan
CoStar Group - Bethesda, MD
Architectural firm VOA Associates renewed its lease at 224 S. Michigan Ave. for 45743 square feet, which is a 15000-square-foot expansion. ...

Keeping our eye on Aqua at Lakeshore East
By Joel
There's been much ado about Aqua, the 80-story Lakeshore East high-rise for which many Chicago architecture buffs have the greatest of expectations (and rightfully so - the building's radical rippling design has a novelty that only the ...
YoChicago - http://yochicago.com/today

Lampert Smith: UW building stirs contempt
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison, WI
It was designed by one of Chicago's revered architects, Harry Weese. Since this is the same kid brother who put me off chili for years by convincing the me ...

Wright's work, the Fellowship and more: An interview with John Geiger
Journal Times - Racine, WI
"I have concluded that the tie that binds was "In the Cause of Architecture" [a series of essays written by Wright for the Architectural Record]. ...

Keeping up with world's tallest buildings
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh, PA
It hired the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, whose chief structural engineer Fazlur Kahn conceived of a tubular, X-bracing exterior that ...

Chicagoist Wayback Machine: Buildings that Might have Been.
By Karl Klockars
As a Chicago icon and part of architectural history, we're big fans of Colonel Robert McCormick's decision for what was erected along the riverfront, but sometimes we're curious about what might have been. And as it turns out, ...
Chicagoist - http://chicagoist.com/

Chicago's hottest neighborhoods 2007
By Yo.Chicago
Many of the new buildings are modern, with eye-catching architecture, a movement that might reach its zenith with the Chicago Spire ...
New Homes Magazine - http://yochicago.com/magazine

Learn the Art of "Summering" at Lake Geneva
Chicago Daily Herald
You can compare the varied architectural styles of Lake Geneva homes as you study facades that include Georgian, Italianate, Second Empire, Greek Revival ...

Developer returns to his roots with Sheffield Condo Living
By Sheila Burt
"I like Chicago architecture," he says. "I think it's one of the best in our country, and I always wondered what [architects] were thinking about when they designed buildings. I want to know the story behind it." ...
New Homes Magazine - http://yochicago.com/magazine

S. Korea's Rush to Build Ever Taller Buildings
The Seoul Times - South Korea
"A tall building means pride," said Kim Sang-Dae, a professor of architectural engineering at Korea University in Seoul. "It is a message to the world, ...

Introduction: Why Architecture Matters
By Phillip Bess-Prof. University of Notre Dame Graduate School
Prior to that I had practiced and lived and helped raise our three children in Chicago for about 25 years, and had also taught at Andrews University's architecture program in Berrien Springs, Michigan. In my life before architecture, ...
Right Reason - http://rightreason.ektopos.com/

Grand visions for new city hall, jazz park have faded
Times Picayune - New Orleans, LA
Jones has agreed to work with Geller on the exterior design of the building so that it fits the architectural style proposed for the jazz district, ...

Chicago's Olympic Dreams Rest on Rehab Over Truck Parking Lot
Bloomberg - USA
... housing units after the games, said Thomas Kerwin, a partner in the Chicago office of Skidmore Owings & Merrill LP, the project's architecture firm. ...

Hilliard Towers Apartments
By mail@prairiemod.com
Most of the other CHA housing projects have been torn down, but because of the significant architectural heritage of the Hilliard Homes, it was decided to save them, renovate them and have them serve once again as apartments and ...
PrairieMod - http://prairiemod.typepad.com/prairiemod/

Architect of Mainstreet Station Condominiums weighs in
By Kate Hawley
The older architectural fabric of Evanston has wonderful integrity and coherence. And for me, this particular corner, and the older buildings to the east of it, is a great part of Evanston.
YoChicago - http://yochicago.com/today

Stunning Monastery Hill Bindery building holds off the hordes on ...
By Barry Pearce
As far as we can tell, it is Chicago's oldest bookbinding company and one of the oldest continuously operating hand-bookbinding firms in the country.
YoChicago - http://yochicago.com/today

Castles in the Air
Wall Street Journal
At the 1933 Chicago fair, Lustron Corp. showed its design for mass-produced all-steel homes that never had to be painted and were "vermin-proof, rust-proof, ...

CHICAGO CHURCHES by SULLIVAN and ROOT
Only two traditional church buildings are regularly mentioned in general books on the architecture of Chicago. They are not included for their spectacular merit, although they are both very fine buildings, but for their being associated ...
THE LION AND THE CARDINAL - http://danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/

Tall building with a twist
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Donna Robertson, dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, says the tower will continue Chicago's "history of courageous ...

House 'clearly' a gem
Joliet Herald News
The house may have been the architectural masterpiece of his grandfather, Mies van de Rohe, and arguably one of the most famous structures in the world, ...

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: The greatest American building ...
Voice of America
In eighteen eighty seven, he went to the city of Chicago. He got a job in the office of the famous architects, Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler. ...

Ask Chicagoist: Paris in the Springtime in Chicago?
By Thales Exoo
In this case, the full-cast came to Chicago from the Parisian Transit Authority in December 2001 by way of the Union League Club of Chicago, the organization that originally came up with the idea (specifically architectural artifact ...
Chicagoist - http://www.chicagoist.com/

In 'Nickel's Chicago,' a Lost City's Lost Champion
NPR - USA
... did: Architecture photographer Richard Nickel spent years with his camera, documenting — and arguing against — the demolition of buildings in Chicago. ...

Family legacy
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan, IL
Kaiser, who has visited the Richardson House, said he did see some architectural similarities between the theater and the house, especially in the marble ...

We'll be fine after this loss
Los Angeles Daily News
... would not be willing to return this soon to Los Angeles that it gambled on a Chicago bid that is mostly a lot of promise and architectural renderings. ...

Chicago or LA? There's no comparison
MSNBC - USA
... ZIP code) to the Wrigley Building to Union Station (think the baby carriage scene in “The Untouchables”), Chicago loves its architecture and public art. .

Belmont Shuffle
By Lee
It may be a little premature to judge before it's complete, but I think that while the design leaves a bit to be desired, it's better than a lot of the attempts in the neighborhood at traditional architecture. ...
Lake View, Chicago - http://yochicago.com/neighborhoods/lakeview

Renewing Chicago’