http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/xml/archchicagorss.xml News and Discussion on Architecture in Chicago and the world, as well as other sundry matters who needs shop windows on State Street? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/macys-dances-on-marshall-fields-grave.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicago-streetscene-view-from-bridal.html and an acropolis with a Jewel/Osco http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chocolate-park.html North Pier depopulates http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/destefano-gets-mies-fever.html a building that spurred a new River North Landmark District probably won't survive its creation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/sacrificial-acorn.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicago-streetscene-throne-of.html details unveiled - and questions raised - on the ambitious 100th Anniversary Celebration for Daniel Burnham's landmark 1909 Plan of Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/burnham-plan-amania-architecture-lost.html the newspaper as the Chesire Cat, fading away to a smile http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-chicago-tribune.html check it all out here http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/shanghai-abu-dhabi-sobek-baker-bemen.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/chicago-streetscene-laughter-in.html Annual "Preservation Celebration" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/preservation-chicago-parties-on-motor.html curator talks up next http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/boom-towns-opens-to-warm-reception.html Join me tonight, Tuesday, September 23rd, at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/boom-towns-opening-reception-tonight.html Pssst! wanna buy a few thousand wooden blocks? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/ties-that-no-longer-bind.html 3 tours offered at 1, 2 and 3 P.M., Sunday, September 21st http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/rare-opportunity-to-tour-saarinens-crow.html Master plan for Angola's Universidade Agostinho Neto and Haworth Headquarters in Holland (Michigan) both honored http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/ralph-johnson-has-good-wednesday.html Riccardo Chailly ailing; CSO Mahler 10 dead http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/mahler-10th-still-not-completed.html Look what I made! (or at least I helped) a new exhibition compares spectacular works from Chicago architects in 19th century Chicago and 21st century boom towns in Asia and the Middle East http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/join-me-next-tuesday-september-23rd-for.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/chicago-streetscene-mortal-remains.html Landmarks Commission considers Murphy and Naess modernist design from 1961 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/north-federal-savings-public-hearing.html November 7th deadline for proposals for historic West Town church shuttered since 1989 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/archdiocese-puts-st-boniface-out-for.html Orbert Davis Quintet to play in Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park masterwork http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/unity-temple-restoration-gala-saturday.html architect Joel Huffman creates installations in Archer Avenue parking garage performance space http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/architecture-dance-convergence-friday.html more appetizing than peche a la frog? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/trump-la-frog.html celebrates 50 years with big blow-out at Millennium Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/owp-goes-gold.html from Peter Eisenman to Sanford Kwinter to Robert Somol, Hadid's Nordpark and much more among dozens of events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-8th-of-month-must-be-time-for.html Mahler, Mozart, Shostahovich and Turnage streaming live and for next week on BBC3 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/csohaitink-at-london-proms-monday.html cooked up by Andrew Rebori and Loyola University http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/have-some-ribs.html Chicago's weirdest tower? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/caligari-cubism-on-sheridan-road.html two great lectures, and a reception for a new exhibition, both at IIT, Wednesday, September 3rd http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/brazilian-architecture-pearl-river.html why you should make time over the next three days to hear a blazing performance of Janacek's rarely performed opera http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/osud-again.html free showing of documentary at Kinetic Playground http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/83rd-birthday-party-for-uptown.html Chicago's Edgewater community takes on the blight of the urban underpass with two spectacular mosaic murals. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-your-underpass-this-is-your.html The strong world that lies beyond the giant revolving door http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/dead-mall-walking.html how to listen to two great concerts of the music of one of the 20th century's most distinctive composers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/5-days-left-to-meet-your-fate.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-streetscene-lets-just-hope-they.html I got your "amenity button", right here. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/at-calatravas-milwaukee-art-museum-its.html oral histories taken August 26-29 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-you-remember-68-democratic.html Topping out ceremony on Saturday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/trump-at-1125-still-only-number-3.html Huffington Post begins Chicago edition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/becker-goes-off-in-huffington-on-uncle.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-streetscene-lillies-of-pond.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-streetscene-goat-of-thrift.html a short history of the 1938 Gold Coast house http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/reborigoldberg-florsheim-mansion-opened.html how do we bring high-speed rail into Chicago's future? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/union-station-focus-of-chicago.html even in height of summer, dozens of events. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-august-11th-time-for-monthly.html developer seeks to demolish 1970's structure http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/walter-sobel-fell-company-stores-fate.html tear up your Sunday plans and head down to Crown Hall, 3360 S. State, sometime between 10 A.M and 3 P.M., Sunday, August 3rd http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/dont-miss-it-sunday-last-day-adler-and.html Retro/Prophetic sidles up to Marina City http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/car-of-tomorrow-yesterday.html Station president turns architect, details at 10 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/cbs2.html only 180 shopping days left http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/and-you-thought-those-early-back-to.html The Chicago Tribune's amazing disappering story on airline cost-cutting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/big-airs-solvency-plan-gouge-rubes.html An important new work from England's leading composer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/primo-prom-ades.html Gardens of rubble http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/va-doa.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/chicago-streetscene-popsicle-bride.html $500 vouchers versus $200k http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/friday-deadline-for-uli-community.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-streetscene-young-woman-with.html economic meltdown takes the role of serial skyscraper killer. where will he strike next? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/exquisite-corpses.html the Kinzie report http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/old-dark-antique-warehouse.html 84 concerts featuring the world's best musicians live and on delayed streams http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/proms.html radical streamline amazes spectators http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/cta-unveils-plan-to-quadruple-capacity.html late updates to the July calendar of architectural events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/grant-park-updates-tonight.html Paul Goldberger plays straight man (he looks so happy: he hasn't heard about the Obama cover yet) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/skycaper-colbert-report-uncovers-us.html sand,sun, water, sky, a book, an iPhone, and six hours of some of the best music ever written http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunday-at-beach-with-gustav.html . . . the Krause Music Store http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/louis-sullivans-last-testament.html noted Chicago architect died June 16th at age 88 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/walter-netsch-remembered-at-som-and-in.html . . . and how do you take your lakefront, madam: plain or promontory? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/whats-point.html yeah, we know, we haven't put up a July calendar, so here's a couple of key events for this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-week-archeworks-open-house-and.html in flags and architecture and blazing across the night sky http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/chicago-glorious-forth.html Crain's Chicago Business reports indicates interior design staffing will more than triple in deal http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/perkins-will-acquires-environments.html another shameless bit of biding time http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/four-tops-sequel.html You got a blue suit? Wear it http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/am-i-blue.html Lifson to USC, Nance ankles CST http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/tuesday-twofer-for-hes-serial-fellow.html why writers can't count http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/four-tops.html photo-essay by Edward Lifson shows you how it's done http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-make-lewitt-x-100.html Duke of Mantua: Eagle Scout http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/dont-ask.html has Sam Zell got a deal for you!! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/pssssst-hey-buddy-wanna-buy-trib-tower.html a dark Miesian citidal sticks it out http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-they-ever-finish-gene-simmons.html application to demolish Orange rated building on 90 day hold http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/preservation-chicago-protests-22nd.html what $1.3 billion might buy http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/great-greg-hinz-analysis-of-block-37.html and today, Sunday, June 22nd is your LAST CHANCE to see it among the other extraordinary Lego models at Brickworld 2008 in Wheeling http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/calatravas-chicago-spire-completed.html CANstruction awards first prize to fine-tuna-ed model http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/marina-city-in-cans-preserved-and-with.html seeks to reaffirm A. Montgomery Ward protections for Grant Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-streetscene-mclincoln.html seeks to reaffirm A. Montgomery Ward protections for Grant Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/see-you-in-court-save-grant-park-starts.html How Chicago firms fare on AIA's top 150 list http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/welcome-home-perkinswill-youre-no-1-in.html iconic Chicago architect designed University of Illinois "Circle" campus and U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/walter-netsch-dies-at-88.html Costs a lot of money, saves energy http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/shades-of-shigeru-curtain-wall-made-of.html . . . . when the palms return to Marina City . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/summer-comes-to-city.html The forgotten glamour of the municipal garage http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/dead-parking-garages-tell-no-tales.html 2008, meet 1971 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/sixteen-who-stood-up-to-childrens.html will the courts be the next battleground? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/city-council-votes-on-childrens-museum.html a postcard evokes memories of a forgotten Chicago newspaper http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/time-regained-chicago-inter-ocean.html Lyric Opera, despite ad's claims, does not endorse move http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-chicago-childrens-museum-ever-stop.html Steven Spielberg announces post Harrison Ford sequel: Richard M. Daley and the Tomb of the Superstation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/tales-from-crypt-city-to-bury-300.html Olive Oyl and Popeye http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/nichols-bares-its-feet-for-summer.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-streetscene-neon-memories.html nearly fifty events listed (so far - we're sure there'll be stragglers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/pecha-kucha-kerwin-enquist-gang-sexton.html Chicago designers showcased at event at the Hotel Victor http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/sine-qua-non-streets-of-chicago-sunday.html NORML announces support for 2016 games in Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/woody-harrelson-olympic-stadium.html It's 12:30 A.M. I'm beginning to realize I'm not going to write anything today. So here's some pictures http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/thursday-photo-gallery.html A spectacular scale model of booming Shanghai is the big attraction at the world's largest (only?) museum of planning and development http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/caf-and-cpc-and-mpc-eat-your-heart-out.html Upgrades, restorations and misfires at Chicago's 1920's landmark hotel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/palmer-house-facade-looking-good.html Eikongraphia's survey only place Lynn Becker will ever outrank Hugh Pearman http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/were-number-18.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicago-streetscene-memorial-day-2008.html Grand Movie Palaces saved: Chicago, three, Philadelphia, none http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-could-be-worse.html Jury to be headed by legendary John Massey, include international heavyweights Michel Bouvet, Shigeo Fukuda, Yossi Lemel and German Montalvo http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/daleys-nowhere-good-enough-for.html a Mansard roof's underwear http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/luciens-hanging-chads.html shilling for the Chicago Children's Museum's Grant Park land grab means never having to say how close you are to their payroll http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/zero-degrees-of-separation-in-childrens.html Pecha Kucha Chicago celebrates its first birthday, at Martyr's June 4th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/bob-and-denise-sneak-preview-at-pecha.html Philharmonie Rattled, not by conductor, but by scary blaze http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/acetylene-torches-menace-to-classic.html A shy groom, a radiant bride, King Lear and a disgruntled moose - just another Saturday on Michigan avenue http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/beauty-and-beasts-on-boul-mich.html Eliasson lurks http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-some-time-for-you-later.html A new book and a once-a-year tour takes you inside the great mansions http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/walk-through-time-prairie-avenue-from.html A graphic representation (and more proof, if any were needed, that I'm no art director), plus comments, pro and con http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/news-flash-plan-commission-approves.html As a serial seducer lurks nearby, Renzo Piano's Nichols Bridgeway clears its biggest hurdle http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/casting-pianos-nichols-across-road.html . . . but their new Executive Director is. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/preservation-chicago-announces-new.html issue to go to Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday, May 15th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/six-reasons-why-chicago-childrens.html thumbs up in Jack's critique http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/alternative-view-in-support-of-chicago.html rampapalooza in Grant Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicago-childrens-museum-spaghetti-bowl.html annals of marketing http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-make-silver-leed-gold-plus-last.html Royce A. Yeater sends letter to Arnold Randall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/national-trust-midwest-opposes.html Habemus Papam! at the CSO http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/molto-muti-will-69-be-new-64.html add power-mad and embarrassments to their children to Mayor Daley's characterizations of opponents to the Chicago Children's Museum Grant Park land grab http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/buy-our-museum-or-and-well-bury-this.html Sunday last day to visit old friends before their excellent Texas adventure http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/impressionists-end-is-near-for-now.html The death of a historic Chicago company raises the stakes in protecting the great civic symbol it created http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/wrigley-company-is-dead-long-live.html The American Institute of Steel Construction brings an innovative engineering technique to Chicago. Valerio Dewalt Train sexes it up. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/staggered-truss-not-as-painful-as-it.html the Flórez that bloom in the Spring, tra la http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/prince-of-high-cs.html renderings the CCM want to keep hidden, and a critique of Krueck and Sexton's design http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/jagged-icebergs-and-open-pit-brutalist.html a photo essay on the irresistible marriage of weddings and architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/skyline-brides.html all in the good cause of dramatizing the Ten - strike that - Eleven most endangered places for 2008 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/landmarks-illinois-redesigns-michigan.html the next thing you try when calling your opponents all racists doesn't work http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/mayor-daley-loves-children-to-hide.html radical rehab would revive spirit of Daniel Burnham http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/daley-center-in-line-for-250-million.html Can any building be as entertaining as this web site? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/alsops-delirious-islington-no-fries.html Alfonso Iannelli's vaudeville days and his stormy collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on Midway Gardens http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/iannelli-and-wright-out-of-storeroom.html Thomas Edison: Energy Hog http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/kill-da-bulb.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/02/angel-of-peace-embraces-storm.html One of the year's top films has some of the most distinctive and affecting music in recent memory http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/01/were-not-in-marlboro-country-anymore.html website explores lesser known stories in city's history, photos in abundance http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/exploring-forgotten-chicago.html death brings author's forty-year-old 20,000 piece Lego construction out of the closet http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-futurist-blockhead.html from the archive http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-brutal-life-of-parade-balloon.html Diuersions in Chicago TIF's threaten to eclipse undiverted revenues http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/half-billion-dollar-baby.html Plus, a spectacular 1965 film on the construction of Bertrand Goldberg's masterpiece http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/stop-taking-pictures-of-marina-city.html The mayor's personal piggy bank http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/chicagos-895-million-dollar-elephant-in.html thump - bump - clang - It's the updated Venturi Scott Brown website! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/10/bob-and-denise-update-themselves.html Not Sn, but Ti for Gehry Museum's 10th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/10/age-of-bilbao-ten-years-out.html Art Institute Nichols Bridgeway and Modern Wing both slated for mid-2008 completion http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/10/renzo-pianos-615-foot-long-extractor-er.html "the chosen site will benefit neither Grant Park nor the children who are the museum's reason for being." http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/chicagos-children-museum-fundamentally.html Why is the CCM so intent on hiding its proposed building? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/really-bad-photos-of-renderings-chicago.html a photo-essay on the park Richard M. Daley wants to destroy http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/chicagochildrensmusuem/daleybicentennialplazanowhere.htm Suggests opponents of a 100,000 square foot Children's Museum in Grant Park hate minorities http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/daley-plays-race-card-on-ccm.html Epic canvas in Sunday Chicago Tribune http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2006/12/picture-of-year-coronation-at-comer.html Bruce Mau says its about nothing less than the design of the world. The world may have other plans http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/massive/massive.htm 2,000 foot high tower packs on some pounds http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/calatravachicago/calatravachicago.htm George M. Harvey house destroyed by early morning blaze. http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/harveygone/harveygone.htm Base of House of Blues Hotel at iconic Bertrand Goldberg complex in Chicago being steeped in battleship gray http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/hobpaint/hobpaint.htm