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<title>435: Way Cool, Even in Daylight (5/21/13)</title>
<description>the construction site as street theater</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/435-way-cool-even-in-daylight.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Nightscene:  Triple Crown (5/20/13)</title>
<description>to tide you over while we work on our latest TLDR</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-nightscene-triple-crown.html</link>
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<title>Travesty or Head Trip? Eifman Ballet's Rodin at the Auditorium - and the Chicago connection to Camille Claudel (5/16/13)</title>
<description>at the Auditorium just through Sunday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/travesty-or-head-trip-eifmans-rodin-at.html</link>
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<title>Opening Saturday: Modernism's Messengers: the Art of Alfonso and Margaret Iannelli (5/16/13)</title>
<description>pay no attention to the True Romance Cultural Center description - this should be a great show</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/opening-saturday-modernisms-messengers.html</link>
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<title>At Raw Point of Spring, a Journey through Chicago and its Architecture, Northern Excursion (5/15/13)</title>
<description>from Nature Boardwalk to the cow overlooking Altgeld</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/northern-excursion-journey-through.html</link>
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<title>Hyde Park under Construction: Harper Court, Hyatt Place (5/13/13)</title>
<description>plus a clunky Borders strips down to turn Akira</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/hyde-park-under-construction-hyatt.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Evolution (5/13/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-streetscene-evolution.html</link>
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<title>Two must-sees: Gatsby (if only for the architecture); Welles' Chimes at Midnight at Music Box tomorrow (5/11/13)</title>
<description>one production had no money; one had it coming out of its ears</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/two-must-sees-gatsby-if-only-for.html</link>
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<title>Southern Excursion - a Journey through Chicago architecture  (5/10/13)</title>
<description>history meets structure where life is lived day-to-day</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/southern-excursion-journey-through.html</link>
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<title>Buddhist Burnham and Root  (5/9/13)</title>
<description>converted bulldog of a church in Bridgeport</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/buddhist-burnham-and-root.html</link>
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<title>Preview: the changing CMD and the potential of McKinley Park  (5/8/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/preview-changing-cmd-and-potential-of.html</link>
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<title>Last Week to Submit for CAC's Next Stop:BRT 2013 BRT Stations 2013 Burnham Prize competition  (5/7/13)</title>
<description>Monday, May 13th deadline, $3,000 first prize</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/last-week-to-submit-for-cacs-next-stop.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Drawbridges and 10 Buildings that changed America - two new documentaries this week (5/5/13)</title>
<description>Drawbridges on WYCC tonight; Baer's 10 Buildings on PBS this Sunday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-drawbridges-and-10-buildings.html</link>
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<title>Lipstick Glowing on the Off Ramp: Congress Parkway's New Lighting (5/5/13)</title>
<description>600 LEDS and metal trellises do battle against a concrete gully at the edge of the Loop</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/lipstick-glowing-on-off-ramp-new.html</link>
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<title>Retro Saturday:  The Dark at the End of the Supply Chain Tunnel (5/4/13)</title>
<description>and a new Business Week survey on the widening gap between executive and worker pay</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/retro-saturday-dark-at-end-of-supply.html</link>
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<title>Is White Modesty the new Overreaching Ambition?  200 West Randolph (5/3/13)</title>
<description>new 23-story tower will feature sculpture from Dale Chihuly</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-white-modesty-new-overreaching.html</link>
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<title>Mars realigns Wright, Achilles on the Glessner bowl, Caughman - still more for May (5/2/13)</title>
<description>plus Greene, Spirit of Design - nearly 50 more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/mars-realigns-wright-achilles-on.html</link>
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<title>Rene Magritte:  Wrigley Rehab Designer? (5/1/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/rene-magritte-wrigley-rehab-designer.html</link>
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<title>Foul Ball Hotel: the In-Your-Face Mediocrity of the Wrigleyville Sheraton (5/1/13)</title>
<description>couldn't we just tack on rooms to the current McDonald's instead?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/foul-ball-hotel-in-your-face-mediocrity.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Nightscene:  Under the Fronds (5/1/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-nightscene-under-fronds.html</link>
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<title>Chicago's Picasso, 10 Most Endangered, Year End Shows at UIC, IIT, Shanghai Tower - it's the May Calendar (4/29/13)</title>
<description>preview the great roster of 40 plus events and counting</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicagos-picasso-10-most-endangered.html</link>
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<title>Retro Saturday: The Architects the Pritzker Dare Not See: Anne Tyng, Denise Scott Brown and Lu Wenyu (4/27/13)</title>
<description>petition to have Pritzker Commitee recognize Denise Scott Brown continues to grow</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/retro-saturday-architects-pritzker-dare.html</link>
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<title>The Ring comes to South Kensington - from Ades to Zappa: death by great music at the 2013 London Proms (4/26/13)</title>
<description>the greatest music festival in the world offers 7 Wagner operas, the centenary of Benjamin Britten, and world premieres from Thomas Ades and Frederic Rzewski</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-ring-comes-to-south-kensington-from.html</link>
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<title>New CTA L cars may last for 40 years: do we really want to spend them staring into someone's crotch? (4/24/13)</title>
<description>Onlinve survey solicits feedback from CTA riders</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-cta-l-cars-may-last-for-40-years-do.html</link>
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<title>Today: Aesthetics and Culture of Healing; Tomorrow: Leveraging Preservation - still more new events for April (4/24/13)</title>
<description>Plus: Does Chicago Plan Anymore?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/today-aesthetics-and-culture-of-healing.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Under Construction (4/23/13)</title>
<description>Aloft to River Point, Optima, AMLI, Hubbard, Jones and beyond</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicago-under-construction.html</link>
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<title>Activated Virgin (4/22/13)</title>
<description>A classic Chicago skyscraper becomes a hotel as a menagerie pretends not to notice</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/activated-virgin.html</link>
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<title>Barbara Mann on The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures - more for April (4/21/13)</title>
<description>plus tickets still available for annual Wright housewalk in May</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/barbara-mann-on-place-of-space-in.html</link>
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<title>Mies: "I am not a polygamist" - so says the Digital Public Library of America (4/19/13)</title>
<description>new, massive, Internet Library debuts</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/mies-i-am-not-polygamist-so-says.html</link>
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<title>Wednesday's Pride:  Lions of Chicago (4/17/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/wednesdays-pride-lions-of-chicago.html</link>
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<title>Next Stop: BRT Stations - As Chicago Transit Moves Forward, Will Design Move Beyond Backward? (4/16/13)</title>
<description>new Chicago Architectural Club competition seeks better design</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/next-stop-brt-stations-as-chicago.html</link>
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<title>New Geographies 5, Shirley King for CAF: new items for logjam week on the April Calendar (4/14/13)</title>
<description>dozens of great events still to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-geographies-5-shirley-king-for-caf.html</link>
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<title>Grossman and Kent's Final Word on how Chicago's Good-Old-Boys network rallied to Wreck Prentice (4/11/13)</title>
<description>Landmarks Commission a faith-based initiative</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/grossman-and-kents-final-word-on-how.html</link>
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<title>Five Things I Learned from Dirk Lohan about Mies van der Rohe's IBM Building (4/11/13)</title>
<description>. . . as new Hotel Langham Chicago comes to the classic Chicago skyscraper</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/five-things-i-learned-from-dirk-lohan.html</link>
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<title>Return of the Flown Gargoyles (4/9/13)</title>
<description>In the Loop, it's not drones but grotesques and guard dogs that are keeping their eye on you</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/return-of-flown-gargoyles.html</link>
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<title>No Maas tomorrow, but Mischa Leiner tonight, plus Stroik, Hillebrand, Mars (Roman) - more for April(4/8/13)</title>
<description>also this week - Bill Latoza on Walter Netsch and the Parks, John Norquist, more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/no-maas-tuesday-but-stroik-hillebrand.html</link>
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<title>Professional Courtesy:  Chicago River Bridges Rise to let the Baby Float By (4/6/13)</title>
<description>special guest at first bridge lift of the season</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/professional-courtesy-chicago-river.html</link>
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<title>Baron von Steuben Refashioned: Randolph Tower - Restored Faux Gothic with a Candy Core (4/4/13)</title>
<description>a whole lot of TIF money goes into creating a youthful rehab</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/baron-von-steuben-refashioned-randolph.html</link>
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<title>Late listing:  Lecture on J.L. Silsbeee by Christopher Payne at Oak Park Library tonight (4/3/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/late-listing-lecture-on-jl-silsbee-at.html</link>
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<title>Ronald Reagan Wrecked (4/2/13)</title>
<description>Gipper dust on 57th</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/ronald-reagan-wrecked.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene:  As if coyotes weren't enough - Bear sighting in Millennium Park (4/2/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicago-streetscene-as-if-coyotes.html</link>
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<title>Godfrey, My Man - You're Alive (exclamation point) (4/2/13)</title>
<description>stalled hotel takes off the wraps, basks naked in the sun</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/godfrey-my-man-youre-alive.html</link>
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<title>If You Build It, Will They Come?  Opening Day Shocker:  Cubs to Move Downtown? (4/1/13)</title>
<description>Santiago Calatrava designed stadium at center of new Emanuel plan</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/if-you-build-it-will-they-come-opening.html</link>
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<title>Pallasmaa, Jeff Day on Monday, Leiner, Latoza, Stoller, Natke, Maas, much more - it's the April Calendar! (3/31/13)</title>
<description>over 50 great events and counting</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/pallasmaa-jeff-day-on-monday-leiner.html</link>
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<title>Wang Shu at Crown Hall tomorrow (3/28/13)</title>
<description>will participate at 11:00 panel discussion Friday, March 29</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/wang-shu-at-crown-hall-tomorrow.html</link>
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<title>The Architecture of the Age of The Supply Chain: The Epic Story of Sears in Chicago (3/28/13)</title>
<description>The company and the buildings that made Wal-Mart and Amazon possible</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/sears-in-chicago-at-discard-end-of-age.html</link>
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<title>Preview:  This is what I'm working on . . . The Architecture of Sears and the Era of the Supply Chain (3/27/13)</title>
<description>hope to have it up tomorrow</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-story-im-working-on-preview-of.html</link>
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<title>Handsome Allstate, Looking for Good Hands (3/26/13)</title>
<description>1949 headquarters on Preservation Chicago's Chicago 7 Most Endangered list for 2013</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/handsome-allstate-looking-for-good-hands.html</link>
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<title>Photos from Richard H. Driehaus Award Ceremony - and a preview of classicism at the original Sears Tower (3/25/13)</title>
<description>Thomas H. Beeby award 2013 Driehaus Prize</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/photos-from-richard-h-driehaus-award.html</link>
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<title>Thomas Beeby receives Driehaus Prize Today, Documentary The Invisible Hand - with outtakes - now online (3/23/13)</title>
<description>11:00 a.m. cermony at John B. Murphy Auditorium open to the public</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/thomas-beeby-receives-driehaus-prize.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene:  The Damned of Wrigley (3/22/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/chicago-streetscene-damned-of-wrigley.html</link>
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<title>The Shock of the New: 1/3 of Modern Wing Shuts Down in September (3/21/13)</title>
<description>Picasso and Matisse head out for six month Texas excursion</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-shock-of-new-13-of-modern-wing.html</link>
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<title>From Dead People to Hardware: Restoration at the Three Arts Club? (3/21/13)</title>
<description>will long-empty landmark finally find a tenant?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/from-dead-people-to-hardware.html</link>
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<title>Architecture and Mozart: A Sublime Glyndebourne Moment (3/20/13)</title>
<description>Formal and Informal, emotion and ritual</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/architecture-and-mozart-sublime.html</link>
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<title>Parishioners, Preservationists hold Vigil to Save St. James Church  (3/18/13)</title>
<description>130-year-old building scheduled for demolition</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/parishioners-preservationists-hold.html</link>
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<title>Master of Tradition:  Thomas Beeby receives Driehaus Award Saturday; documentary The Invisible Hand debuts on WTTW Thursday (3/18/13)</title>
<description>ceremony at John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium open to the public</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/master-of-tradition-thomas-beeby.html</link>
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<title>Will 130 years of history and faith be destroyed?  Friends of Historic St. James rally to forestall wrecking ball (3/15/13)</title>
<description>demolition of Bronzeville church may begin as early as Monday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/will-130-years-of-faith-and-history.html</link>
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<title>That's Right: It's the Chicago River.  Oh Yeah: It's Green - REALLY Green (3/15/13)</title>
<description>video of Chicago's River going all Oz for St. Patrick's Day</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/thats-right-its-chicago-river-oh-yeah.html</link>
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<title>The End of an Epic Dream: Calatrava's Chicago Spire hole on the block (3/14/13)</title>
<description>an amazing story remembered</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-end-of-epic-dream-calatravas.html</link>
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<title>Strippers Attack, Heat Up Fulton Market (3/12/13)</title>
<description>The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Developers Even</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/strippers-attack-heat-up-fulton-market.html</link>
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<title>Renwick-Shaw Second Presbyterian designated National Historic Landmark  (3/11/13)</title>
<description>among 13 new national historic landmarks named today</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/renwickshaw-second-presbyterian.html</link>
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<title>New Music for Teshigahara's Gaudi, plus Zardini, Arets, Lorado Taft, Edward Dart - more for March  (3/10/13)</title>
<description> . . . and Sagrida Familia on 60 Minutes</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-music-for-teshigaharas-gaudi-plus.html</link>
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<title>All Quiet on the Wells Street Front  (3/10/13)</title>
<description> . . . and why are there pants?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/all-quiet-on-wells-street-front.html</link>
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<title>Architecture, On the Road (Gratuitous Reflections, to extra charge) (3/9/13)</title>
<description>Sears in Oak Brook, from elegance modernism to Michelin Man</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/architecture-on-road-gratuitous.html</link>
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<title>This is your American Junkie Face on Illinois (3/8/13)</title>
<description>street theater without table dancers</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-your-american-junkie-face-on.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Winter Frames (3/7/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/chicago-streetscene-winter-frames.html</link>
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<title>Pablo's Wireframes: The Architecture of Picasso's Dots and Lines (3/6/13)</title>
<description>a surprising discovery at a don't-miss exhibition at the Art Institute</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/pablos-wireframes-architecture-of.html</link>
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<title>Just Added: Tenorio's I Speak of the City, plus Pecha Kucha, Grete Marks, Keck and Keck and Chicago 7 Bingo - still more for March! (3/5/13)</title>
<description>check out the 40+ events still to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/just-added-tenorios-i-speak-of-city.html</link>
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<title>The Bridge Beside the River Chicago - Reconstructing Wells Street (3/4/13)</title>
<description>a messy trek to work, but great urban theater</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-bridge-beside-river-chicago.html</link>
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<title>Urban WTF:  Did Forever Marilyn Flick Away this Giant Cigarette on Pioneer Plaza (3/2/13)</title>
<description>Howells and Hood live again at Tribune Tower</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/urban-wtf-did-forever-marilyn-flick.html</link>
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<title>Red Swing under the L - Bit of Venice Biennale to come to Chicago: March 6 deadline to submit for Spontaneous Interventions (3/1/13)</title>
<description>call for projects to add to traveling exhibition opening in Chicago in May</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/red-swing-under-l-bit-of-venice.html</link>
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<title>Pritzker-Prize Winner Wang Shu, plus Perrault, Arets, Frampton, Zardini, birthday Mies, and lots more - it's the March Calendar! (2/28/13)</title>
<description>Ponte, Preservation Bingo, Valicenti . . . you get the idea - check it all out here</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/pritzker-price-winner-shu-plus-perrault.html</link>
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<title>World's only Architectural Comedy? Jacques Tati's Masterpiece: Playtime, Thursday at the Music Box (2/27/13)</title>
<description>last showing in 70mm at Music Box festival</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/worlds-only-architectural-comedy.html</link>
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<title>Dregs and Blind Classics all aquiver: New Skateboarder's Paradise coming to Grant Park (2/26/13)</title>
<description>plans to be presented at Grant Park Advisory Council meeting Wednesday, February 27</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/dregs-and-blind-classics-aquiver-new.html</link>
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<title>Rojos at UIC Tonight, plus Nair, Shaw, Atomic West an Democracy and the Built Environment - still more for February (2/25/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/rojos-at-uic-tonight-plus-nair-shaw.html</link>
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<title>Retro Saturday - Revisiting Freedom's Limited Run: 4/11/06 - 3/1/09 (2/23/13)</title>
<description>a museum takes to the highways</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/retro-saturday-revisiting-freedoms.html</link>
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<title>Chicago 4th Most Miserable; 1st Most Gullible.  Why Top Ten Lists about Cities are Whack(2/22/13)</title>
<description>on the benefits of contradiction</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/chicago-4th-most-miserable-1st-most.html</link>
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<title>Last Days for Inside Studio Gang and The Lost Vanguard (2/22/13)</title>
<description>plus, Jeanne Gang awarded doctorate from SAIC</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/last-days-for-inside-studio-gang-and.html</link>
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<title>At the IBM Langham, Less is a Bore (2/21/13)</title>
<description>hotel in Mies van der Rohe landmark scheduled for summer opening</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/at-ibm-langham-less-is-bore.html</link>
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<title>Finishing the River Walk - Conclusion:  Swimming Holes and Wolf Calls (2/20/13)</title>
<description>a viral outbreak of new green space forming around Wolf Point</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/finishing-river-walk-conclusion.html</link>
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<title>The Three Red Cranes of 111 West Wacker (2/19/13)</title>
<description>a climbing red vine made of steel instead of licorice</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-three-red-cranes-of-111-west-wacker.html</link>
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<title>Enquist at IIT, Rojo at UIC, Chattel at SAIC - still more for February! (2/18/13)</title>
<description>also Leon Depres award, Food Design for Social Change, Ghost Facade, dozens of events to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/enquist-at-iit-rojo-at-uic-chattel-at.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Rear windshield Cloud Gate (2/17/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/chicago-streetscene-rear-windshield.html</link>
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<title>Movie Lovers Paradise or Cornucopia Hell? 70mm at the Music Box, Leos Carax at the Siskel (2/16/13)</title>
<description>over a dozen of the most extraordinary films of all time, in a little more than a week</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/movie-lovers-paradise-or-cornucopia.html</link>
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<title>It's National Engineers Week! Full day of events at CAF this Sunday (2/15/13)</title>
<description>plus Future City Winners, and other engineering events throughout the month</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-national-engineers-week-full-day-of.html</link>
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<title>It's National Engineers Week! Full day of events at CAF this Sunday (2/15/13)</title>
<description>plus Future City Winners, and other engineering events throughout the month</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-national-engineers-week-full-day-of.html</link>
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<title>The Big Con Closes:  Northwestern Wins the Battle to Destroy Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital (2/14/13)</title>
<description>National Trust and Landmarks Illinois moves for voluntary dismissal of Circuit Court complaint</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-big-con-closes-northwestern-wins.html</link>
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<title>Frank Gehry BP Now Actually Bridge to Nowhere (Temporarily) (2/14/13)</title>
<description>Construction underway at new Maggie Daley Park</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/bp-gehry-now-actually-bridge-to-nowhere.html</link>
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<title>Finishing the Chicago Riverwalk, Part Two: Opera on the River?  (or Maybe just a little Jazz) (2/13/13)</title>
<description>a look at The Cove and the River Theater</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/finishing-chicago-riverwalk-part-two.html</link>
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<title>Ragged Liberty or Polished Upscaling?  Speculating on the Future of Wrigleyville's Mutant Urbanism (2/12/13)</title>
<description>of Ricketts, Rahm and bleachers on the roof</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/ragged-liberty-of-polished-up-scaling.html</link>
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<title>Erasing the Dead: for bKL, Brininstool and Lynch never existed (2/11/13)</title>
<description>rewriting history, one story at a time</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/erasing-dead-for-bkl-brininstool-and.html</link>
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<title>Lohan on Mies, Burns on what's under Block 37, plus Architecture and Emotion fuse in extraordinary I Am Cuba (2/11/13)</title>
<description>this week's great events</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/lohan-on-mies-burns-on-block-37-plus.html</link>
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<title>Sunday News Headline Edition: How to a get money, a job, Deadlines, AIA Young Architects, Walking Wright - plus stuff we just made up! (2/10/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/sunday-news-headline-edition-how-to-get.html</link>
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<title>Retro Saturday: Constructing Da Bean - Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate in Millennium Park (2/9/13)</title>
<description>we knew it when it was just a ring</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/retro-saturday-construction-da-bean.html</link>
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<title>A Modest Proposal:  Abolish the Commission on Chicago Landmarks (2/8/13)</title>
<description>reconsidering Chicago's landmark ordinance as it nears the half-century mark</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-modest-proposal-abolish-commission-on.html</link>
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<title>Landmarks Commission Unanimously Votes Itself Completely Useless (2/7/13)</title>
<description>theater of the absurd 1n the County Board Room</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/landmarks-commission-unanimously-votes.html</link>
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<title>Reminder:  Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice on Landmarks Agenda Again Today (2/7/13)</title>
<description>vote scheduled to again condemn landmark building to dust</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/reminder-bertrand-goldbergs-prentice-on.html</link>
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<title>Finishing the River Walk - Introduction and Block One: The Marina (2/7/13)</title>
<description>more details emerge at public meeting at the Chicago Architecture Foundation</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/finishing-river-walk-introduction-and.html</link>
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<title>Shall We Gather at the River? (2/6/13)</title>
<description>New Plan for last six blocks of Chicago River Walk to be discussed at public meeting tonight</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/shall-we-gather-at-river.html</link>
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<title>Buffalo and Chicago: Sister Cities in Architecture and Preservation (But only one has a scorecard) (2/5/13)</title>
<description>tales of the city (illustrated), in loss and triumph</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/buffalo-and-chicago-sister-cities-in.html</link>
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<title>Lohan on Mies, Sambunaris' Taxonomy, Democracy and the Built Environment, Prentice v. Commission - still more for February (2/4/13)</title>
<description>plus ACE Mentor, engineering the Washington Monument, Martha Schwartz, Forgotten Chicago - nearly 50 great events</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/lohan-on-mies-sambunaris-taxonomy.html</link>
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<title>Retro Saturday: The Architects Speak! (2/2/13)</title>
<description>Encounters with Jahn, Ross Barney, Ronan, Williams, Tsien, and Gang</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/saturday-retro-arhitects-speak.html</link>
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<title>Lego Friday: MVRDV's million porous pieces; Le Corbu needs only 660 (2/1/13)</title>
<description>plus Riccardo Bofill's Lego building that isn't</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/lego-friday-mvrdvs-million-porous.html</link>
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<title>Arets, Gang, Gamper, Ghost Facades, Airports, Crosstowns and Engineers Running Amuck - it's the February Calendar! (1/31/13)</title>
<description>nearly half a hundred great items, with more to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/arets-gang-gamper-ghost-facades.html</link>
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<title>Hour of the Wolf:  The Transformation of the Pivot Point of Chicago (1/30/13)</title>
<description>are these buildings good enough for Wolf Point?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/hour-of-wolf-transformation-of-chicagos.html</link>
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<title>At Dead of Night, I Open My Door to Let in the Fog of False Spring (1/29/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/at-dead-of-night-i-open-my-door-to.html</link>
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<title>Jane Austen in the Basement (1/28/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/jane-austen-in-basement.html</link>
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<title>Let's Kill it Twice! Landmarks Commission set to vote (again) to demolish Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital (1/27/13)</title>
<description>revised draft resolution published</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/lets-kill-it-twice-chicago-landmarks.html</link>
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<title>Retro Saturday: Constructing Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park (1/26/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/retro-saturday-constructing-frank.html</link>
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<title>Fixing Illinois Center: Another Design Proposal (1/25/13)</title>
<description>could plaza retrofit be a good investment?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/fixing-illinois-center-another-design.html</link>
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<title>Douglas A. Garofalo Fellowship - UIC calls for inaugural year applications (1/24/13)</title>
<description>February 28th deadline for applications for 9-month fellowship at UIC School of Architecture</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/douglas-garofalo-fellowship-uic-calls.html</link>
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<title>Aftermath: Some Say the World Will End in Ice . . . (1/23/13)</title>
<description>is death in black and white?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/aftermath-some-say-world-will-end-in-ice.html</link>
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<title>early 20th century Central Manufacturing District Warehouse consumed by fire (1/22/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/early-20th-century-central.html</link>
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<title>Working on Wolf Point, so, for today, here's some Streetscenes (1/22/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/working-on-wolf-point-so-heres-some.html</link>
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<title>Fishman's Next National Plan, More for January (1/20/13)</title>
<description>plus Katherine Darnstadt, 2030, Future City Regional Finals</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/fishmans-next-national-plan-more-for.html</link>
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<title>Things Change: The pulled window shades of London Guarantee; the vanishing mesa of Fulton Market (1/18/13)</title>
<description>Angry birds and Indigo</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/things-change-pulled-window-shades-of.html</link>
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<title>Will a Vacant Stare Inspire? AFH/Chicago's Activate!; Chicago Women in Architecture's scholarship deadline (1/17/13)</title>
<description>A $1,000 budget; a $2,000 scholarship</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/will-vacant-state-inspire-afhchicagos.html</link>
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<title>A Casino at the Thompson Center? Casting Dice for the Civic Realm (1/16/13)</title>
<description>Is this the most spectacular - and hated - building in Chicago?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-casino-at-thompson-center-throwing.html</link>
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<title>Judith Russi Kirshner named Art Institute Deputy Director for Education (1/15/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/judith-russi-kirschner-named-art.html</link>
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<title>Jahn Simplifies; Goettsch Zheng-ed; smdp Studio covers up - Architects: in the News! (1/14/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/jahn-simplifies-goettsch-zheng-ed-smdp.html</link>
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<title>Esra Akcan on Kreuzberg, plus Neil Brenner, Terry Guen, Jeanne Gang - more for January (1/13/13)</title>
<description>more than two dozen great events still to come on the January Architectural Calendar</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/esra-akcan-on-kreuzberg-plus-neil.html</link>
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<title>Another dismissal, another brief reprieve, another day in court for Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice (1/11/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-fight-to-bertrand-goldbergs.html</link>
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<title>The ghost of the Art Institute's vanished Columbus Hall: Swami Vivekananda remembered on 150th birthday (1/11/13)</title>
<description>the speech that shook the 1893 World Parliament of Religions</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/ghosts-of-1893-art-institute-swami.html</link>
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<title>At Marina City - Bertrand Goldberg: Screwed Again? (1/10/13)</title>
<description>a controversial lobby rehab design spurs owner revolt</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/at-marina-city-bertrand-goldberg.html</link>
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<title>Coolest Construction Site in the City? (1/8/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/coolest-construction-site-in-city.html</link>
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<title>The woman who created the Architecture Beat: Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91 (1/7/13)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-woman-who-created-architecture-beat.html</link>
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<title>Heavens to Purgatory: Imploding Churches Flatten Chicago (1/7/13)</title>
<description>the role of churches as urban markers and respositories of civic memory</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/heavens-to-purgatory-imploding-churches.html</link>
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<title>Earthquake! (Walk - Don't Run) plus Vivian Maier, Randolph Tower and AFH/Chicago's Holiday Hangover Party (1/6/13)</title>
<description>plus Frank Lloyd Wright's Heller House, Randolph Tower tour and more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/earthquake-walk-dont-run-plus-vivian.html</link>
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<title>Striking images of Save Prentice's latest proposals and analysis to save Bertrand Goldberg landmark (1/3/13)</title>
<description>new alternatives from BauerLatozo, Kujawa Architecture and Loebl Schlossman and Hackl</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/striking-new-images-of-save-prentices.html</link>
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<title>Towers (Olympia and Randolph), Pecha Kucha, Vanavehu, Wright's Heller House, Future City 2013 - more for the January calendar! (1/3/13)</title>
<description>new additions to over three dozen great events</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/towers-olympia-and-randolph-pecha-kucha.html</link>
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<title>To Start 2013:  Three (Small) Chicago Fixes (1/2/13)</title>
<description>of plazas, casinos, and Puffin' Pigeons</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/to-start-2013-three-small-chicago-fixes.html</link>
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<title>Yes, Virginia, there will be a 2013 - the January Calendar of Chicago Cultural Events: Gang, Kearns, Guen, Vivian Maier and more! (12/28/12)</title>
<description>nearly three dozen great events already with more to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/yes-virginia-there-will-be-2013-we.html</link>
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<title>Time to Kick 2012 Down the Stairs:  Our Top Ten Stories of the Year (12/28/12)</title>
<description>. . . just upholding the law.  It's a federal law, actually . . .</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/time-to-kick-2012-down-stairs-our-top.html</link>
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<title>Am I Boring You? (12/27/12)</title>
<description>Fifty shades of screwing caissons at 435 Park Drive</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/am-i-boring-you.html</link>
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<title>Christmas in Chicago Retro: Zoo Lights, Trains, Trees and Kringles (12/24/12)</title>
<description>Christmas meets Chicago architecture, over the past six years</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/retro-christmas-zoo-lights-trains-trees.html</link>
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<title>Christmas in Chicago 2012:  a City's Architecture as Holiday Backdrop (12/21/12)</title>
<description>Santa's gotta fly!  Stand back!  See ya all soon!</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-in-chicago-2012-citys.html</link>
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<title>Artist Rediscovered: Alfonso Iannelli, Modern by Design (12/20/12)</title>
<description>an exhibition through December 22, a major monograph, Spring 2013</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-life-rediscovered-alfonso-iannelli.html</link>
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<title>Art Alone Endures: A Night at the Fine Arts Building  (12/18/12)</title>
<description>A shaggy dog of a building offers a door to a different world</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/art-alone-endures-night-at-fine-arts.html</link>
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<title>Learning to Love Bike Lanes (Some Street Reading Required)  (12/17/12)</title>
<description>a bold new plan comes to a one mile stretch of Dearborn in Chicago's Loop</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/learning-to-love-bike-lanes-some.html</link>
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<title>The Chicago That Never Was:  The Bulletin Board Building  (12/14/12)</title>
<description>early visions of North Michigan</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-chicago-that-never-was-bulletin.html</link>
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<title>Hillshire HQ Rehab No Hot Dog (12/12/12)</title>
<description>redesign opens up classic 1946 building</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/hillshire-hq-rehab-no-hot-dog.html</link>
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<title>Great Holiday Gifts: The Autobiography (and confessions) of Irving K. Pond (12/11/12)</title>
<description>a forgotten Chicago architect rediscovered</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/great-holiday-gifts-autobiography-and.html</link>
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<title>Say Goodbye to Ronald Reagan's Apartment: The Supply-Chaining of Hyde Park (12/10/12)</title>
<description>the joys of density</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/say-goodbye-to-ronald-reagans-apartment.html</link>
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<title>Doug Farr accepts AIA/Chicago's Firm of the Year Award (12/9/12)</title>
<description>from Friday's event at Revolution Brewery</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/doug-farr-accepts-aiachicagos-firm-of.html</link>
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<title>Stay against demolition of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital remains, for now (12/7/12)</title>
<description>oral arguments scheduled for January 11</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/stay-against-demolition-of-bertrand.html</link>
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<title>Wolf Point Update:  Reilly yanks revised proposal from December Plan Commission agenda; schedules 3rd Public Meeting (12/6/12)</title>
<description>maximum hotel keys reduced to 450?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/wolf-point-update-reilly-bumps-december.html</link>
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<title>CAF's 2012 Patrons of the Year:  A Kitchen (Inspirational), a Rush (and Bill Kurtis's hips), a Tower (melange included) and the "Blood and Guts" of the City (12/6/12)</title>
<description>on the relationship between clients and architects</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/cafs-2012-patrons-of-year-kitchen.html</link>
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<title>Tonight at MoCP: the Changing Chicago Project with Peter Bacon Hales and Jan Tichny (12/5/12)</title>
<description>plus Ross Wimer and Brian Lee at CAF lunchtime</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/tonight-at-mocp-changing-chicago-project.html</link>
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<title>Tartan check-mate: Burberry's Reinvigorates the Mag Mile (12/4/12)</title>
<description>first Chicago outpost in over-the-top global flagship wars</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/tartan-check-mate-burberrys.html</link>
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<title>Can Signage Save Block 37? (12/3/12)</title>
<description>theatricality and the generic mall</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/can-signage-save-block-37.html</link>
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<title>Hack-Fabric Swatch mars Mag Mile Classic (12/3/12)</title>
<description>Swatch Tourbillon - what were they thinking?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/hack-fabric-swatch-mars-mag-mile-classic.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Macro and Micro:  Wacker re-opens, bike lanes come to Dearborn  (12/2/12)</title>
<description>two very different types of expressways</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/chicago-macro-and-micro-wacker-re-opens.html</link>
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<title>Gill, Wimer, Johnson, Emanuel, Acconci, plus Gaudi for Christmas - it's the December Calendar!  (11/30/12)</title>
<description>Pecha Kucha, AIA/Chicago awards, Okrent, Bachrach, Prentice and more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/gill-wimer-johnson-emanuel-acconci-plus.html</link>
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<title>Early Christmas Gift:  Wrigley Building Gateway now Open  (11/29/12)</title>
<description>plus: retailers named for long-empty Roosevelt Collection</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/early-christmas-gift-wrigley-building.html</link>
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<title>The white-clad Bride of the Chicago Skyline:  Viguier's Sofitel marks its Ten Anniversary with a Design Competition  (11/28/12)</title>
<description>SAIC AIADO competition has three winning entries</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-white-clad-bride-of-chicago-skyline.html</link>
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<title>Thanks for the Views, Mr Mies - one more event for November  (11/28/12)</title>
<description>new book on Mies' Lafayette Park, at the Graham on Thursday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanks-for-views-mr-mies-one-more-event.html</link>
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<title>From drugs to dollars to deli: the store of Walgreens and the landmark Noel State Bank (11/27/12)</title>
<description>How Theo Noel and Vitae-ore spurred a new bank</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/from-drugs-to-dollars-to-deli-story-of.html</link>
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<title>Judith Russi Kirshner resigns as Dean of UIC College of Architecture and the Arts (11/26/12)</title>
<description>effective December 31; will remain on faculty</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/judith-russi-kirschner-resigns-as-dean.html</link>
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<title>A Theater Vanishes:  The Two McClurgs (11/26/12)</title>
<description>A retail strip emerges; a landmark languishes</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-theater-vanishes-two-mcclurgs.html</link>
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<title>Tabula Rasa: Daley Bi - Ready for its Makeover into Maggie Daley Park (11/25/12)</title>
<description>site stripped clean</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/tabula-rasa-daley-bi-ready-for-its.html</link>
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<title>Parade! (11/22/12)</title>
<description>a photo essay on Chicago's Thanksgiving Day Parade</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/parade.html#more</link>
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<title>Happy Thanksgiving! (11/22/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/happy-thanksgiving.html</link>
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<title>A Holiday Tradition:  Bad Video of Lighting Chicago's Christmas Tree (11/21/12)</title>
<description>Rahm Emanuel at Daley Plaza</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-holiday-tradition-bad-video-of.html</link>
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<title>Noel, Noel: Walgreen's Revival  (11/20/12)</title>
<description>a preview of what may be the world's most elegant drug superstore</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/noel-noel-walgreens-revival.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Nightscenes Gothic, Goldbergian and Roswellian (11/20/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/two-nightscenes-gothic-and-roswellian.html</link>
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<title>Arichtect as Goth:  Odile Decq to lecture at SAIC/AIADO (11/19/12)</title>
<description>new wing at MACRO, Rome investigates the issue of color</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/architect-as-goth-odile-decq-to-lecture.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Fifty Shades of Fall at the Lurie Garden (11/18/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/chicago-streetscene-fifty-shades-of.html</link>
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<title>Waiting for Mickey (11/17/12)</title>
<description>Michigan Avenue prepares for this year's Festival of Lights</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/waiting-for-mickey.html</link>
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<title>Even in its Death Throes, Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital inspires Brilliance as Future Prentice Competition winners announced (11/16/12)</title>
<description>Circuit Court Judge stays revocation of preliminary landmark designation until December 7</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/even-it-its-death-throes-bertrand.html</link>
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<title>Mother of Mercy, is this really the Gateway to the Mag Mile?  The dull void of Pioneer Court.  (11/15/12)</title>
<description>is it time to rethink Pioneer Court and Cityfront Plaza?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/mother-of-mercy-is-this-really-gateway.html</link>
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<title>National Trust, Landmarks Illinois file institute to reinstate Landmark Designation for Prentice  (11/15/12)</title>
<description>charges Commission with violating Landmarks Ordinance</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/nationl-trust-landmarks-illinois-file.html</link>
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<title>also tonight, at Crown Hall, Jean-Louis Cohen, Architecture at War 1940:1945 (11/14/12)</title>
<description>plus, tomorrow, unveiling of Mark Davis's Healing Waters sculpture at Lurie Hospital</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/also-tonight-at-crown-hall-jean-louis.html</link>
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<title>FIELD, UIC faculty exhibition, opens Tonight (11/14/12)</title>
<description>contributors include Kelly Bair, David Brown, Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer, Clare Lyster. Andrew Moddrell, and Xavier Vendrell</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/field-uic-faculty-exhibition-opens.html</link>
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<title>Update:  Inside Studio Gang Archi-Salon to feature Gang, Gil, Jacobs, more (11/12/12)</title>
<description>this Saturday at the Art Institute</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/update-inside-studio-gang-archi-salon.html</link>
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<title>Future Prentice, Russian Avant-Gardists, Studio Gang, Bloomingdale Trail, Mies+Massive - it's the Thursday logjam! (11/12/12)</title>
<description>plus Karen Kice, Driehaus Museum, Eva Castro Iraola - much more for November</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/future-prentice-russian-avante-gardists.html</link>
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<title>Holy Motors:  a One Week Window to see a One-of-a-Kind film (11/10/12)</title>
<description>mad and exhilarating and architecture-rich</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/holy-motors-one-week-window-to-see-one.html</link>
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<title>Mie's 860-880 North Lake Shore Drive.  Love the Building?  Click the Website. (11/9/12)</title>
<description>an excellent new resource on a Chicago icon</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/miess-860-880-lake-shore-drive-love.html</link>
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<title>At the CTA, you can rehab in any color - as long as it's white (11/8/12)</title>
<description>waiting for the art</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/at-cta-you-can-rehab-in-any-color-as.html</link>
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<title>What Do We Do Now? (11/7/12)</title>
<description>Barack Obama has won, but we're not just back to where we began</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-do-we-do-now.html</link>
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<title>Waterview has Risen from the Grave! (as 111 West Wacker) (11/6/12)</title>
<description>Related Midwest rebreaks ground on stalled tower</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/waterview-has-risen-from-grave-as-111.html</link>
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<title>Under Construction - Spectacular; Finished - Meh.  1334-36 West Morse (11/5/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/under-construction-spectacular-finished.html</link>
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<title>Christmas 2012: Hot on Chicago's Trail (11/3/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-2012-hot-on-chicagos-tail.html</link>
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<title>Boodler's Paradise: The Original Rookery (11/2/12)</title>
<description>there are rooks, and then there are rooks</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/boodlers-paradise-original-rookery.html</link>
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<title>Mission Accomplished!  Prentice goes from unprotected, to landmark, to not landmark, to rubble - in record time (11/1/12)</title>
<description>six hours of sham, and then the fat lady sings</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/mission-accomplished-prentice-goes-from.html</link>
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<title>Prentice today - Behar, McCarter, Castro Iraola, An Te Liu, Njale, Russians, Richardson and much more - theNovember calendar (11/1/12)</title>
<description>nearly 50 great events already on tap</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/prentice-today-behar-mccarter-castro.html</link>
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<title>Landmarks Commission's Eloquent Requiem to the Building It's About to Destroy (10/31/12)</title>
<description>The importance of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital superbly documented</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/landmarks-commission-eloquent-requiem.html</link>
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<title>Emanuel Destroys Prentice (10/30/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/emanuel-destroys-prentice.html</link>
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<title>A spectacular portrait in darkness and light:  Eric Hines's Cityscape Chicago (10/30/12)</title>
<description>30,000 still photos in a little more than three minutues</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-spectacular-portrait-of-chicago-in.html</link>
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<title>Frontier Outpost:  The Roosevelt Collection and the Future of the Viaduct District (10/29/12)</title>
<description>a development moated in the ghosts of the great railroads</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/frontier-outpost-roosevelt-collection.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Skyscene: Great Cloud Day (10/26/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-skyscene-great-cloud-day.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Before the Fall: Desert Flowers (10/25/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-streetscene-before-fall-desert.html</link>
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<title>Possum Exploded and Made Whole:  ROA's Pilsen mural (10/25/12)</title>
<description>16th street viaduct turns into mini-museum</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/possum-exploded-and-made-whole-roas.html</link>
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<title>Battle for Prentice on Chicago Tonight, 7pm on WTTW (10/24/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/battle-for-prentice-on-chicago-tonight.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Mashup (10/24/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-streetscene-mashup.html</link>
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<title>Meet the authors:  Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, at Mies's Carr Chapel (10/22/12)</title>
<description>over a dozen great events still to come on the October calendar</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/meets-authors-mies-van-der-rohe.html</link>
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<title>Exiled to Indian Boundary:  A Monument to Boodle in Old Chicago (10/22/12)</title>
<description>a sculpted head that once looked down at humanity now looks down at geese on the lawn</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/exiled-to-indian-boundary-forelorn.html</link>
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<title>George Solti at 100 (10/21/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/george-solti-at-100.html</link>
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<title>Goodbye Daley Bi; Hello Maggie Daley Park - stripping North Grant Park bare (10/20/12)</title>
<description>800 trees face their end game</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/goodbye-daley-bi-hello-maggie-daley.html</link>
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<title>The Heretofore Unmentioned: MDA City Apartments (10/19/12)</title>
<description>an unheralded building with an interesting history</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-heretofore-unmentioned-mda-city.html</link>
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<title>New York Times Michael Kimmelman pops by Prentice for a few minutes - solves problem (10/17/12)</title>
<description>Jeanne Gang proposes new 31-story tower above Bertrand Goldberg masterpiece</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/michael-kimmelman-pops-by-prentice-for.html</link>
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<title>And the Architect said to the Building:  I Can See You Naked (10/17/12)</title>
<description>Hungarian artist depopulates</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/and-architect-said-to-building-i-can.html</link>
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<title>An open letter to Mayor Emanuel on Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital - a few truths versus one Big Lie (10/16/12)</title>
<description>will propaganda from beltway lobbyists cause a world-class building to be destroyed?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-open-letter-to-mayor-emanuel-on.html</link>
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<title>Erich Mendelsohn's Incessant Visions, plus, Canberra today, Magic and Poetry of Havana, Wednesday (10/15/12)</title>
<description>more great events added to to the October Calendar</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/erich-mendelsohns-incessant-visions.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Architecture Sacred and Profane at Open House Chicago (10/14/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-architecture-sacred-and-profane.html</link>
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<title>Working this Weekend?  Monday deadline for CAC Future Prentice competition entries (10/13/12)</title>
<description>All-star jury to include John Ronan, William F. Baker, Zoe Ryan, Martin Felsen, more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/working-this-weekend-monday-deadline.html</link>
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<title>Open House Chicago, complete with custom scores, opens up 150+ Chicago marvels Saturday and Sunday (10/12/12)</title>
<description>many sites open to the public for the first time</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/open-house-chicago-complete-with-custom.html</link>
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<title>The Reveal:  Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago (10/11/12)</title>
<description>a photo essay on a remarkable new building, its story and its architects</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-reveal-tod-williams-and-billie.html</link>
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<title>Moving Marina City to North Michigan for Open House Chicago 2012 (10/10/12)</title>
<description>observatory, accessible for first time in decades, one of 150+ sites open to the public this weekend</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/moving-marina-city-to-north-michigan.html</link>
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<title>Rafael Viñoly talks Wright, new hospital, at the Logan Center for the Arts (10/9/12)</title>
<description>U of C Center for Care and Discovery opens 2013 </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/rafael-vinoly-talks-wright-new-hospital.html</link>
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<title>The World of Wiel Arets lands at IIT (10/8/12)</title>
<description>new Dean of the College of Architecture introduces himself</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-world-of-wiel-arets-lands-at-iit.html</link>
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<title>Rescheduled:  Saturday's Archi-Salon at Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects (10/4/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/rescheduled-saturdays-archi-salon-at.html</link>
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<title>The Ages of 830 South Michigan (10/3/12)</title>
<description>from a haven for young girls coming to the big city, to an aviary for pigeons</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-ages-of-830-south-michigan.html</link>
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<title>Farnsworth Alfresco with Schulze, Windhorst and Jacobs; Williams and Tsien on and at new Logan Center for the Arts - more for October (10/2/12)</title>
<description>plus John van Bergen month in Highland Park</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/farnsworth-alfresco-with-schulze.html</link>
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<title>Wrigley Building Plaza:  Where Perfect People meet the Rest of Us (10/1/12)</title>
<description>Real meets surreal and gazes inside</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/wrigley-building-plaza-where-perfect.html</link>
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<title>Her/Moth/Others - spin them all together and they spell . . .  (9/29/12)</title>
<description>Martin Creed Plays Chicago, at the MCA</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/hermothothers-spin-them-all-together.html</link>
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<title>October in Chicago is CRAZY Busy: Roggeveen's Go West, Arets, Vinoly, Tigerman, STern, Gehry, Jahn(x2), Open House Chicago, MAS Context Analog - much,much more (9/28/12)</title>
<description>over 60 great events and counting</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/october-in-chicago-is-crazy-buzy.html</link>
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<title>Today - 200 Years of Sitting: The Chair - learn with Achilles, buy at Wright  (9/27/12)</title>
<description>Living Contemporary at noon auctions off designs by Holl, Arad, more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/today-200-years-of-sitting-chair-learn.html</link>
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<title>The Ninotchka of River North:  George Schipporeit's IBM Self-Park  (9/26/12)</title>
<description>Sam Jacob's "black hole" has its surprises</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/buildings-i-love-george-schipporeits.html</link>
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<title>CTA looking for 7 or so good artists: October 10 deadline for proposals for Red Line Public Art (9/25/12)</title>
<description>$45,000 to $99,000 per art budget for each rehabbed Red Line North station</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/cta-looking-for-7-or-so-good-artists.html</link>
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<title>Im Daley Platz: Ist dies nicht ein Passivhaus?  Ja, dies ist dasHaus. (9/24/12)</title>
<description>dasHaus tour stops with Chicago through Sunday the 30th; conference on Thursday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/im-daley-platz-ist-dies-nicht-ein.html</link>
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<title>Big Shiny Things: Studio/Gang at Expo Chicago at Navy Pier (9/21/12)</title>
<description>mylar domes define a street grid of galleries</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-shiny-things-studiogang-at-expo.html</link>
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<title>Fore!  PARK(ing) Day 2012 turns Milwaukee Avenue into a Golf Course Friday (9/21/12)</title>
<description>Architecture for Humanity/Chicago project transforms metered parking spaces</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/fore-parking-day-2012-on-milwaukee.html</link>
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<title>Sculptor Marshall Svendsen's eagle lands along Diversey Harbor (9/20/12)</title>
<description>pictures and video</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/sculptor-marshall-svendsens-eagle-lands.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Snow Globe  (9/19/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/chicago-street-scene-snow-globe.html</link>
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<title>Studio Gang's Aqua Refreshes the Chicago skyscraper (9/18/12)</title>
<description>the story of how Aqua came to be</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/studiogangs-aqua-refreshes-chicago.html</link>
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<title>Studio/Gang's Aqua from Start to Finish (9/18/2012)</title>
<description>Aa photo essay </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/studiogangs-aqua-from-start-to-finish.html</link>
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<title>Amazing Open House Chicago 2012 looking for a Thousand Good Women (and Men)</title>
<description>Access to over 150 sites, many now usually open to general public, October 13 and 14 </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/amazing-open-house-chicago-2012-looking.html</link>
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<title>Fragments:  Sunday on the Great Stair of the Art Institute with George (Seurat), Stephen (Sondheim) and Louis (Sullivan) (9/16/12)</title>
<description>Art isn't easy, overnight you're a trend . . . </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/fragments-sunday-on-great-stair-with.html</link>
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<title>Buzzing the Bridgehouse:  Hollywood Star goes behind the Camera at Wabash Avenue Bridge for Dhoom 3 (9/15/12)</title>
<description>Saturday morning copter wakeup call </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/buzzing-bridgehouse-hollywood-star-goes.html</link>
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<title>A Remarkable Story Comes to a Close - Wright Photographer Pedro E. Guerrero dies at 95 (9/14/12)</title>
<description>a Photographer's Journey, a Distinctively American Life </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-remarkable-story-comes-to-close.html</link>
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<title>dasHaus lectures, Lai, Millet, Dick Higgins Collaborates (posthumously) with Chicago Police for The Thousand Symphonies (9/15/12)</title>
<description>more for September; still three dozen great events to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/dashaus-lectures-lai-millet-dick.html</link>
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<title>A restored Emanuel Swedenborg returns to contemplate what Daniel Burnham Wrought (9/14/12)</title>
<description>where does that highway lead to?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-restored-emanuel-swedenborg-returns.html</link>
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<title>Wanderlust: A Walk through the City, from Holabird and Root to The Kelpies (9/12/12)</title>
<description>Chicago shines at end of summer</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/wanderlust-walk-through-city-from.html</link>
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<title>Expo Chicago 2012: Jeanne Gang puts the street grid into Navy Pier (9/11/12)</title>
<description>I think the red carpet may be Ogden Avenue</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/expo-chicago-2012-jeanne-gang-puts.html</link>
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<title>Architecture and the Photographic Eye:  from iitExposure to Vivian Maier (9/10/12)</title>
<description>the idealized and the documentary</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/architecture-and-photographic-eye-from.html</link>
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<title>New:  Patricia Patkau, Doug Fogelson, Wright's Roots Extended - more for September! (9/9/12)</title>
<description>plus a preview of OpenHouse Chicago at CAF, Fuksas, Valicenti and Glessner's 125th Anniversay Gala</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-patrica-patkau-doug-fogelsen.html</link>
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<title>Obama vs. Romney:  They are NOT the same (9/9/12)</title>
<description>yes, I'm starting a new blog</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/obama-and-romney-they-are-not-same.html</link>
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<title>big.dk (9/8/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/bigdk.html</link>
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<title>Prentice on Landmarks Agenda "sometime".  So why am I depressed? (9/7/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/prentice-on-landmarks-agenda-sometime.html</link>
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<title>Astroturf and shady polls - the latest in Northwestern's battle to destroy Prentice (9/6/12)</title>
<description>who is Purple Strategies?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/astroturf-and-shady-polls-latest-in.html</link>
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<title>Reimagining Urban Eden:  Studio/Gang and the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo (9/6/12)</title>
<description>from city cemetery to a new urban habitat with tortoise shell pavilion</description>
<link>http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/pond/jeanne_gang_and_the_lincoln_park_nature_boardwalk.htm</link>
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<title>Frank Lloyd Wright archives won't be bleeding Art Institute red. (9/5/12)</title>
<description>massive acquisition to be shared between Columbia University and the Museum of the Modern Art</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/will-frank-lloyd-wright-archives-wave.html</link>
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<title>Instead of gravel and chain-link, the Sound of Crickets on former VA site? (9/4/12)</title>
<description>42nd ward alderman Brendan Reilly announces Northwestern agrees to improvements</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/instead-of-gravel-and-chain-link-sound.html</link>
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<title>End of Season:  Rolling Summer into Storage (9/4/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/end-of-season-rolling-summer-into.html</link>
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<title>das HAUS to our house (Daley Plaza); plus Frank Lloyd Wright and the Japanese Print (9/3/12)</title>
<description>and - now in its 15th smash month! - no Prentice on Landmarks agenda</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/das-haus-to-our-house-daley-plaza-plus.html</link>
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<title>Issac Haze descends on Shaft[s] (9/1/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/issac-haze-descends-on-shafts.html</link>
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<title>Souls in Flight Amidst the Proud Towers (9/1/12)</title>
<description>a landing at Lurie's Gold Coast heliport</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/souls-in-flight-amidst-proud-towers.html</link>
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<title>Fuksas, Pecha, Gang, Josef Frank, Iannelli, Millet, Lai, VJAA, Visionary Cities, more - it's the September Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events and Exhibitions (8/31/12)</title>
<description>over 50 events and three new exhibitions</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/once-more-into-breach-dear-friends.html</link>
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<title>Herzog and de Meuron, Souto de Moura, Ando and Venturi add their voices to saving Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital (8/30/12)</title>
<description>Bjarke Ingels, Scott Brown, Hartray, Coffey and Miller also call for Landmarks Commission designation</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/herzog-and-de-meuron-souto-de-moura.html</link>
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<title>I've Got You (1913) Under my Skin - virtual restoration at 618 South Michigan (8/29/12)</title>
<description>state-of-the-art curtain wall contains intimation of terra cotta original</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/subliminal-skin-virtual-restoration-at.html</link>
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<title>Runners and sculptures at the end of a late summer day (8/27/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/runners-and-sculptures-at-end-of-late.html#more</link>
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<title>Crain's, Chicago Tribune add their voices:  Prentice Should Be Saved (8/26/12)</title>
<description>why is the Commission on Chicago Landmarks silent? </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/crains-chicago-tribune-add-their-voices.html</link>
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<title>Ziggurat with Pointy Stick (8/24/12)</title>
<description>To Safeguard Wealth . . .  </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/ziggurat-with-pointy-stick.html</link>
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<title>River North Hotels - One Sleeks Up; One Dumbs Down (8/23/12)</title>
<description>designs 2009 and today </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/river-north-hotels-move-towards.html</link>
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<title>Mr. Becker Inquires . . .  (8/22/12)</title>
<description>a small bit of shameless self promotion </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/mr-becker-inquires.html</link>
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<title>Today at 4:00 at the Newberry:  In Search of William Pretyman (8/22/12)</title>
<description>interior designer, now nearly forgotten, appointed "Director of Color" for 1893 World's Columbian Exposition </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/today-at-400-at-newberry-in-search-of.html</link>
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<title>Future Prentice:  ideas for saving endanged Bertrand Goldberg building subject of Chicago Architetural Club's 2012 Chicago Prize competition (8/21/12)</title>
<description>$3,000 first prize </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/future-prentice-ideas-for-saving.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Patterns  (8/21/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/chicago-streetscene-patterns.html</link>
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<title>Mind in the Gutta: Lichtenstein's Entablatures (8/20/12)</title>
<description>only through September 3rd to see essential Art Institute Retrospective </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/mind-in-gutta-lichtensteins-entablatures.html</link>
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<title>Planes and Building, Spectated (8/19/12)</title>
<description>aircraft and those who love them, from the last day of the Chicago Air and Water Show 2012 </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/planes-and-buildings-spectated.html</link>
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<title>Air and Water Show 2012 (8/18/12)</title>
<description>a photo portrait from yesterday's rehearsal </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/air-and-water-show.html#more</link>
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<title>Northwestern, Grow Up: Refuting Northwestern's desperate PR campaign to Destroy Prentice (8/17/12)</title>
<description>The battle for Bertrand Goldberg's masterpiece could be a win-win. </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/northwestern-grow-up-refuting.html</link>
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<title>Shimmering in the late summer sun:  giant Kelpies come to Chicago's Lakefront (8/16/12)</title>
<description>10-foot high Andy Scott's maquettes one tenth the size of final sculptures</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/shimmering-in-late-summer-sun-giant.html</link>
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<title>Biggest Pecha Kucha Chicago ever, Thursday at the Art Institute, plus Graham finishes Breaking Glass, boathouses, and today, ACE Mentor fundraiser as Vertigo Lounge (8/15/12)</title>
<description>four events in lieu of a full August calendar</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/biggest-pecha-kucha-chicago-ever.html</link>
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<title>CTA's Attack of the Street Walruses (8/14/12)</title>
<description>In a city that's a global beacon for progressive design, is this really the best we can do?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/ctas-attack-of-street-walruses.html</link>
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<title>Batcolumn vs. Bridgecolumn (8/13/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/batcolumn-vs-bridgecolumn.html</link>
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<title>Burberry Facade Plaid  (8/9/12)</title>
<description>Limited Time Only!</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/burberry-facade-plaid-limited-time-only.html</link>
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<title>Portrait of a Great City at Warp Speed: The Eighth Greatest Film Ever? Man With a Movie Camera at Doc Films tonight (8/8/12)</title>
<description>an amazing documentation of urban life</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/portrait-of-city-at-warp-speed-eight.html</link>
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<title>Full Stop: Wiel Arets new Dean at IIT (8/7/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/full-stop-wiel-arets-new-dean-at-iit.html</link>
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<title>13 years later, Cows on Parade still hanging on (8/6/12)</title>
<description>has a world-wide phenomenon reached end-of-life?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/13-years-later-cows-on-parade-still.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Nightscene: Cosmo's Moon, crater stubble (8/4/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/chicago-nightscene-cosmos-moon-crater.html</link>
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<title>Wiel Arets new Dean of Architecture at IIT? (8/3/12)</title>
<description>reported by Edward Lifson</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/wiel-arets-new-dean-of-architecture-at.html</link>
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<title>To Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital Still Dead (8/2/12)</title>
<description>Commission, Reilly, Emanuel remain silent even as support builds globally for Goldberg's great building</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/to-commission-on-chicago-landmarks.html</link>
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<title>Thursday: City of Bridges, Animal House to Our House (8/2/12)</title>
<description>first two events on August calendar</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/thursday-city-of-bridges-animal-house_1.html</link>
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<title>Jeanne Gang's Grounded Magic -  Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects opens at Art Institute September 24th (8/1/12)</title>
<description>curated by Zoë Ryan and Karen Kice</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-inside-studio-architects-opens.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: The Moustache is Watching You (7/31/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-moustache-is.html</link>
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<title>Frank Lloyd Wright Hits the Wall (7/30/12)</title>
<description>the story behind the Wright-designed wallpaper mounted at the exhibition Wright's Roots</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/frank-lloyd-wright-hits-wall.html</link>
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<title>White and Red and Louis all Over: Target opens in Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott (7/25/12)</title>
<description>a handsome renovation; a new concept for the Department Store</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/white-and-red-and-louis-all-over-target.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Angry Birds (7/25/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-angry-birds.html</link>
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<title>Would you walk a mile for a Camel?  Art Deco facade newly uncovered, quickly replaced (7/24/12)</title>
<description>a new facade for Hump Hair Pin Building on Spaulding</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/would-you-walk-mile-for-camel-art-deco.html</link>
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<title>Dimming the Sharpness of Vision: Fereshteh Toosi Tuesday evening at Access Living (7/24/12)</title>
<description>there's so much more to architecture than what can be perceived through the single sense of sight</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/dimming-sharpness-of-vision-fereshteh.html</link>
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<title>Two Gated Communities: Will the Lathrop Homes be drowned in a River of Gentrification? (7/23/12)</title>
<description>CHA's Plan for Transformation and Market Rate Housing clash with long time residents</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/two-gated-communities-will-lathrop.html</link>
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<title>The Death of Variety?  The Supply-Chaining of the Magic of the Movies (7/21/12)</title>
<description>from movie palace to multiplex</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-death-of-variety-supply-chaining-of.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Nighttime in Venice and Vienna (7/20/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-nighttime-in-venice.html</link>
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<title>Outtakes from the Central Manufacturing District (7/17/12)</title>
<description>some images from the first modern industrial park</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/outtakes-from-central-manufacturing.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Light Rails (7/16/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-light-rails.html</link>
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<title>Back to the Future: Wrigley Building Plaza closes for Rehab (7/13/12)</title>
<description>metal storefronts to go</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/back-to-future-wrigley-building-plaza.html</link>
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<title>Where Chicago Public Schools deign not tread:  GEMS descend on Lakeshore East (7/12/12)</title>
<description>the global supply-chaining of education</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/finally-school-for-lakeshore-east-cps.html</link>
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<title>Horses, Streetcars and Hungry Birds - Mural Tuesday (7/10/12)</title>
<description>on the railroad viaduct at Chicago and Lessing</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/horses-streetcars-and-hungry-birds.html</link>
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<title>Color Jam's Stockholder, Arquitectonica's Spear, Bey, Anthony Wood - it's the July Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events (7/8/12)</title>
<description>plus Jewels in July, The Cites That Work, Pecha Kucha at Charnley-Persky House (sold out) - over three dozen events to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/color-jams-stockholder-arquitectonicas.html</link>
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<title>Face Off (7/5/12)</title>
<description>The new Ronald McDonald House gets an early eclipse</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/face-off.html</link>
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<title>Today: Julie Burros discusses new Chicago Cultural Plan (7/5/12)</title>
<description>plus  four more Town Hall meetings in July</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/today-julie-burros-discusses-new.html</link>
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<title>Some Flags we Have Known: Happy Independence Day! (7/4/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-flags-we-have-known-happy.html</link>
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<title>I Am Curious, Morbid (but only through Sunday) - an unnerving show finds the perfect setting (7/3/12)</title>
<description> a one-of-a-kind exhibition that should not be missed</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-am-curious-morbid-but-only-through.html</link>
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<title>Rosenwald Apartments panel tonight, Happy Hour Tomorrow, calendar soon . . .  (7/2/12)</title>
<description>things pretty quiet this holida week</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/rosenwald-apartments-panel-tonight.html</link>
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<title>Becker to unearth CMD's at Pecha Kucha Chicago #0 July 19th (6/29/12)</title>
<description>at the Society of Architectural Historian's Charnley-Persky House</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/becker-to-reveal-cmds-at-pecha-kucha-0.html</link>
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<title>Wright's Roots are Showing: Garrick Theater colors seen for first time in over a century (6/28/12)</title>
<description>new exhibition explores early years of Frank Lloyd Wright and his relation to his mentor Louis Sullivan</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/wrights-roots-are-showing-garrick.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Black Box, White Box (6/27/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-black-box-white-box.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene II: Stegosaurus (6/27/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-ii-stegosaurus.html</link>
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<title>Lonely Flowers at the Gravesite of the Abandoned Subway Station (6/26/12)</title>
<description>buried alive with $300 million in TIF funds</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/lonely-flowers-at-gravesite-of.html</link>
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<title>Crunching the Numbers: Perkins + Will number 3 Architectural Record's list of top 250 firms (6/24/12)</title>
<description>Smith+Gill new this year at position 87.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/crunching-numbers-perkins-will-number-3.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Pride (6/25/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-pride.html</link>
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<title>Why a Duck?  To Get to the Other Side!  Evanston Viaduct Cam! (6/23/12)</title>
<description>watch new Grove and Dempster Street viaducts put in place - live.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-duck-to-get-to-other-side-viaduct.html</link>
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<title>If Dogs Ruled the Art World -Canine-ized Matisse, Dali and Seurat at Churchill Park  (6/22/12)</title>
<description>the secret of Lascaux revealed</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/if-dogs-ruled-art-world-canine-ized.html</link>
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<title>Jenney's Home Insurance Building lives on - in Lego.  Build Your Own Lego City at Crown Hall July 21 (6/21/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/jenneys-home-lives-on-in-lego-build.html</link>
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<title>Buy your own Gehry, Libeskind, Holl, Bjarke - it's Architecture for Humanity's I Love Architecture auction on eBay (6/20/12)</title>
<description>plus Jeanne Gang, Zoka Zola, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche and a plastic origami tiger - over 70 art works in all</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/buy-your-own-gehry-libeskind-holl.html</link>
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<title>back to Wright's Roots, forward to Chicago Unseen City - two new exhibitions open Friday  (6/19/12)</title>
<description>new Tim Samuelson show explores Wright before the myth-making</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/back-to-wrights-roots-forward-to.html</link>
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<title>Lichtenstein Express  (6/18/12)</title>
<description>Pop-Art Drive-By</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/lichtenstein-express.html</link>
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<title>Saturday: Chicago Center for Green Technology Celebrates 10 years; Kevin Harrington on Mies, Hilberseimer and  Caldwell at Lafayette Park  (6/16/12)</title>
<description>only one of these events has a dunk tank.  our apologies. </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/saturday-chicago-center-for-green.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Music, Dismembered Trunk (6/15/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-music-dismembered.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Culture Clash (6/14/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-culture-clash.html</link>
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<title>Alternative Realities at Wolf Point (6/12/12)</title>
<description>Sepideh Abtahi's Textiles and Architecture, at SAIC </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/alternative-realities-at-wolf-point.html</link>
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<title>Today, Tonight: Tele Vision SAIC AIADO exhibition opening reception, panel discussion (6/11/12)</title>
<description>work of young designers in architecture, interior architecture and designed objects on display in the Sullivan Galleries </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/today-tonight-tele-vision-aiado-and.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Head (6/9/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-head.html</link>
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<title>Saturday Night: Soiled/Unearthed (6/8/12)</title>
<description>exhibit event at Gallery @ Living Room Realty launches latest issue on on-line mag </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/saturday-night-soiledunearthed.html</link>
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<title>Uneasy Courtship: The Bowman and Magdalene (6/6/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/uneasy-courtship-bowman-and-magdalene.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene II: Caged Flamingo (6/6/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-ii-caged-flamingo.html</link>
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<title>Target Goes Rad/Red at Louis Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott (6/5/12)</title>
<description>prepping for July opening of new concept inner-city store retailer is pegging its growth on </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/target-goes-radred-at-louis-sullivans.html</link>
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<title>SEAOI Awards, Pecha Kucha 22, Mies' Lafayette Park, rehabbing the Wrigley, Ian Schrager and much more - it's the June Calendar! (6/4/12)</title>
<description>plus Bus Rapid Transit, rehabbing the Wrigley, more </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/seaioi-award-pecha-kucha-22-mies.html</link>
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<title>Color Jam 360: from Drab to Fab  (6/3/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/color-jam-360-from-drab-to-fab.html</link>
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<title>See! One Day Only! Frank Lloyd Wright's Doghouse!! plus FLW in California (6/1/12)</title>
<description>new documentary explores California houses </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/see-one-day-only-frank-lloyd-wrights.html</link>
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<title>Instant Landmark: TranSystems and Ross Barney's Morgan Street Station (5/31/12)</title>
<description>Is it worth the $38 million cost? </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/instant-landmark-transsystems-and-ross.html</link>
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<title>Hines Point (5/30/12)</title>
<description>Things change. Discuss. </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/hines-point.html</link>
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<title>Hedrich-Blessing's Rotting Rams (5/29/12)</title>
<description>the city revealed</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/hedrich-blessings-rotting-rams.html</link>
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<title>Memorial Day Chicago, 2012:  Beyond the Words (5/28/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/memorial-day-chicago-2012-beyond-words.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: 10:00 p.m. News, with Pirates (5/26/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-10-pm-news-with.html</link>
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<title>Vinyl Explosion creates Color Jam at State and Adams (5/25/12)</title>
<description>llve webcam lets you watch multi-media artist Jessica Stockholder's work unfold</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/vinyl-explosion-creates-color-jam-at.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene II: Ordination Day (5/24/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-ii-ordination-day.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Cedar Terra Cotta; Plywood Insert  (5/24/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-cedar-terra-cotta.html</link>
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<title>The Billion Dollar Mansion where No One Sleeps (5/23/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/the-billion-dollar-mansion-where-no-one.html</link>
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<title>Some of Views of the new Logan Center for the Arts - architects Williams and Tsien at Art Institute Panel Thursday (5/22/12)</title>
<description>plus James Carpenter, Ana Beha and Steven Wiesenthal</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/logan-arts-center-williams-tsien-at-art.html</link>
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<title>Adler and Sullivan's Auditorium gets a view block (5/21/12)</title>
<description>Lillian and Larry Goodman Center rises</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/adler-sullivans-auditorim-gets-view.html</link>
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<title>Relief for NATO weekend, at the Lurie Garden (5/20/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/relief-for-nato-weekend-at-lurie-garden.html</link>
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<title>Your Guide to the NATO Summit:  Your Country is probably not going to be a player if . . .  (5/20/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/your-guide-to-nato-summit-your-country.html</link>
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<title>Tonight: Preservation Chicago goes to Mars for Spring Fundraiser (5/18/12)</title>
<description>winners in Photograph Chicago competition to be announced</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/tonight-preservation-chicago-goes-to.html</link>
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<title>The Architect as Zelig: Stanley Tigerman's Ceci n'est pas une reverie at the Graham, open late tonight (5/17/12)</title>
<description> last chance to see exhibition that closes after Saturday, May 19th</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/architect-as-zelig-thursday-last-night.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Inflamed Tonsil (5/16/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-inflamed-tonsil.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene II: The Bunker (5/16/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetsceneii-bunker.html</link>
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<title>Where the Bottom Drops out of Chicago: Wack Wack Wacker Drive (5/14/12)</title>
<description>Root canal on an urban artery</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/when-bottom-drops-out-of-chicago-wack.html</link>
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<title>CANstruction 2012, via Public Art in Chicago (5/11/12)</title>
<description>plus links to the list of winners and a ton of photo's</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/canstruction-2012-via-public-art-in.html</link>
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<title>Friday Lite Reading Edition (5/11/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/friday-lite-reading-edition.html</link>
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<title> The Farmhouse that Roared: cycles of time at Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (5/10/12)</title>
<description>Life! Death! Love! Floods! Scandal! And a Really Big Tree</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/where-living-and-fabricated-intersect.html</link>
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<title>Bloomingdale Trail, Cramer Goldberg and Bey ponder Does Modernism Still Having Meaning? Navy Pier, Kingscote, Williams and Tsien: May Calendar blooms (5/8/12)</title>
<description>over three dozen events still to come in May, with more to be added</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/bloomingdale-trail-cramer-goldberger.html</link>
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<title>Inland Steel - Jewel Box of the Loop - Goes to Seed: popup sculpture garden Alterpolitan (5/6/12)</title>
<description>Views, gardens, and a forest canopy</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/inland-stee-jewel-box-of-loop-goes-to.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Animals on the Viaduct (5/3/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-animals-on-viaduct.html</link>
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<title>Reilly Drives the Stake Through the Heart:  The Children's Museum in Grant Park is Dead, Dead, Dead (5/2/12)</title>
<description>a final look at an epic battle to keep Chicago's lakefront Open, Clear and Free</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/reilly-drives-stake-through-heart.html</link>
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<title>SEAOI Awards presentations, Bachrach's Garden, Wolner's Henry Cobb, Gene Summers memorial - May begins! (5/1/12)</title>
<description>over two dozen events already listed</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/seaoi-awards-presentations-bachrachs.html</link>
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<title>Marilyn, Not Forever (5/1/12)</title>
<description>supersized J Seward departs May 7</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/marilyn-not-forever.html</link>
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<title>At Daniel Burnham's landmark, Goodbye Santa Fe, hello Motorola (4/29/12)</title>
<description>plus a great Landmarks Commission report on the Portage Theatre Building, its life and times</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/at-daniel-burnhams-landmark-goodbye.html</link>
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<title>The Past as Applique, Bettina Pousttchi's Framework and Echo and the timeline of German architecture (4/28/12)</title>
<description>four buildings, one site, four centuries</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/past-as-applique-bettinas-poutsttchis.html</link>
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<title>Waiting for the Skin: 400 South Jefferson Stripped to the Bones (4/25/12)</title>
<description>waiting for MeatCo, gnawin' on a TIF</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/waiting-for-skin-400-south-jefferson.html</link>
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<title>Prentice Hospital: Still Not Dead - but Not for Lack of Trying - Bertrand Goldberg masterwork among Landmarks Illinois Ten Most Endangered 2012(4/24/12)</title>
<description>also Guyon Hotel, Keck and Keck Blair House, more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/prentice-hospitalstill-not-dead-but-not.html</link>
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<title>Mummy No More? Valerio's Staybridge about to Escape its Wrappings (4/24/12)</title>
<description>Oxford Capital promises boutique lifestyle hotel by end of 2013</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/mummy-no-more-former-staybridge-about.html</link>
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<title>Goose Island for Obscura Day, Kalmbach's Grand Mansions, Buckley's Utopie, Doug Garofalo memorial - still more in April (4/23/12)</title>
<description>plus Gunny Harboe tour of Unity Temple, Midwest Bridge Symposium, more.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/goose-island-for-obscura-day-kalmbachs.html</link>
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<title>North Dakota Republican Defends Modernism: Can the Apocalypse be Far Behind? (4/22/12)</title>
<description>defends Holabird and Root designed State Capitol against gibes of godless Minnesotan</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/north-dakota-republican-defends.html</link>
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<title>Pop-Up Art Saturday: Show of Hands (4/21/12)</title>
<description>Harding and Stefanovic's The Hatchery</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/pop-up-art-saturday-show-of-hands.html</link>
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<title>Road Trip (4/19/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/road-trip.html</link>
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<title>Tuesday I Got Nothin' Edition:  Opposing Pigeons (4/17/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/tuesday-i-got-nothin-edition-opposing.html</link>
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<title>Digital Design at SOM, Giancarlo Mazzanti on Colombia Transformed, Gordon Gill at Unity Temple and lots for more April (4/16/12)</title>
<description>nearly three dozen great offerings still to come on the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/digital-design-at-som-giancarlo.html</link>
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<title>Highly Recommended: Unfinished Spaces: The National Arts Schools of Cuba, tonight at the Music Box 7:00 p.m. (4/15/12)</title>
<description>one of the most remarkable stories - and most cautionary tales - in 20th Century architecture</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/highly-recommended-unfinished-spaces.html</link>
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<title>Architecture 101 Beats Hunger Games in South Korea (4/15/12)</title>
<description>romance and architects: a natural combination - or not?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/architecture-101-beats-hunger-games-in.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Subway Motley (4/11/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/chicago-streetscene-subway-motley.html</link>
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<title>The synapses of America: Koblin's Flight Patterns at Art Institute's Rethinking Typologies (4/10/12)</title>
<description>plus The Last Harvest: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore, only through Sunday the 15th (lecture today)</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/synapses-of-america-koblins-flight.html</link>
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<title>Tschumi Tonight! plus architecture and Cats!Cats!Cats! Architecture and Design Film Festival this week (4/9/12)</title>
<description>over 50 items on the April Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events - and more to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/tschumi-tonight-plus-architecture-and.html</link>
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<title>Easter Weekend Streetscene:  Of Time and Renewal (4/5/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-weekend-streetscene-of-time-and.html</link>
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<title>Why Must the Cancer Survivors Garden Go Begging? (4/5/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-must-cancer-survivors-garden-go.html</link>
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<title>Corrections (4/4/12)</title>
<description>in which we atone for a number of recent inaccuracies</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/corrections.html</link>
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<title>The Battle to save the Portage Theater and the Chicago 7 Most Endangered Wednesday, Marina City Thursday - April beings (4/1/12)</title>
<description>Portage Theater on Landmarks Commission agenda for Thursday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/saving-portage-theater-and-chicago-7.html</link>
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<title>Way More than Wright: Rare Opportunity to hear Pedro E. Guerrero April 5th (4/1/12)</title>
<description>chronicler of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of the great photographers of the 20th century appears in L.A. this week</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/way-more-than-wright-rare-opportunity.html</link>
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<title>Drawing: Not Dead - Stephen Wierzbowski's Monument: Sketch Studies of Great Architecture in Europe and America opens tonight (3/31/12)</title>
<description>at Framing Mode Gallery</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/drawing-not-dead-stephen-wierzbowskis.html</link>
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<title>Of timelessness and kitchen timers (and really bad video): Michael Graves in Chicago (3/28/12)</title>
<description>plus crazy kids, the Driehaus Prize and Harmid Karzai at the Modern Wing</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/of-timelessness-and-kitchen-timers-and.html</link>
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<title>Bad Buildings We Love: 530 North Lake Shore Drive (3/28/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/bad-buildings-we-love-530-north-lake.html</link>
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<title>That Mies - He's So Colorful! (3/27/12)</title>
<description>a Google doodle honors the master of Aachen on what would have been his 126th birthday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/that-mies-hes-so-colorful.html</link>
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<title>Scotland gets it's 100-foot-high Kelpies - what animal should Chicago supersize? (3/25/12)</title>
<description>is Chicago structure repressing its innner anthromorphism?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/scotland-gets-its-100-foot-high-kelpies.html</link>
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<title>Michael Graves receives 2012 Driehaus Award at public ceremony Saturday (3/23/12)</title>
<description>at the John B. Murphy Auditorium</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/click-images-for-larger-view-we-wrote.html</link>
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<title>Grumpy Friday:  Is This a Design, or Did They Just Pile Up Whatever Pieces Were Left at the Bottom of the Box? (3/23/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/grumpy-friday-is-thiis-really-design-or.html</link>
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<title>Architect Michael Graves: A Grand Tour debuts tonight on TTW (3/22/12)</title>
<description>rebroadcasts Friday and Saturday</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/architect-michael-graves-grand-tour.html</link>
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<title>David Watkin, ICOMOS's Araoz, Lost Panoramas, Of Dolls and Murder, Three Centuries of St. Louis Architecture at Willis Tower - March is bursting still more events (3/19/12)</title>
<description>Gordon Gill, Sam Jacob, Juan Herreros, Gabe Klein among nearly three dozen events still to come in March</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/david-watkin-icomoss-araoz-lost.html</link>
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<title>Revels and Respites: A St. Patrick's Day in Chicago Journey, to the North Side and Back (3/18/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/st-patricks-day-in-chicago-journey-to.html</link>
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<title>Dyeing theChicago River Green for St. Patrick's Day 2012 - the View from Above (3/17/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/dyeing-chicago-river-green-for-st.html</link>
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<title>Smiles of a Summer Night (in March) - 80 degrees, Flamboyente stands Nude before the fountain of her doctors, even (3/15/12)</title>
<description>a city emerges into the warm</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/smiles-of-summer-night-in-march-80.html</link>
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<title>Preview: St. Patrick's Day - This Year on the 17th! Let's Dye the Chicago River Green! (3/14/12)</title>
<description>photo's and videos, in abundance</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/preview-st-patricks-day-this-year-on.html</link>
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<title>Impromptu Subversions of the Architectural Kind (3/13/12)</title>
<description>sushi and retro at the Joffrey Tower</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/impromptu-subversions-of-architectural.html</link>
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<title>The Graham Dishes the Dirt, Edward Mitchell, Jerszy Seymour, John Edel, CNU's Convenience, Landmarks Goes on Strike - throw in the Parthenon and you've got this week's Chicago Architectural calendar (3/12/12)</title>
<description>nearly three dozen events on the March calendar, with more to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/graham-dishes-out-dirt-edward-mitchell.html</link>
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<title>Community Clean-up Day to Save historic Shepherd's Temple - tomorrow, Sunday, March 11 (3/10/12)</title>
<description>endangered 1913 structure's history includes both Golda Meir and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/community-clean-up-day-to-save.html</link>
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<title>The Invention of Dreams - the Themes of Martin Scorses's Hugo
 - Part I (3/9/12)</title>
<description>there's a lot more to Scorsese's sumptuous fable than you've been led to believe</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/invention-of-dreams-themes-of-martin.html</link>
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<title>Private Emotions, Public Spaces - focus: Sharon Hayes, at the Art Institute through Sunday  (3/7/12)</title>
<description>Love Address in a Frankfort square</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/private-emotion-public-space-focus.html</link>
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<title>Tuesday logjam - Craig Dykers, Pecha Kucha 5th anniversary, The Cathedral of Christ the Light  (3/5/12)</title>
<description>check out the unfinished March calendar - already with two dozen events</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/tuesday-logjam-craig-dykers-pecha-kucha.html</link>
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<title>On Chicago's birthday, 175 years of history on just one corner: The Tremont, George Pullman, and Ira Couch  (3/4/12)</title>
<description>there's no trace of it today, but there's a lot of history at Dearborn and Lake</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-chicagos-birthday-175-years-of.html</link>
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<title>Landmarks, Ty Tabbing on State Street today - March calendar . . . soon  (3/1/12)</title>
<description>Pop-Up Art Galleries back on State</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/landmarks-ty-tabbing-on-state-street.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Veined Lantern (2/29/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-streetscene-veined-lantern.html</link>
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<title>Getting Chicago Culture's Light out from under the Bushel - One Word, Benjamin: Streaming  (2/28/12)</title>
<description>CAF's Chicago Debates: Chicago Casino to be streamed live tonight</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/getting-chicago-cultures-light-out-from.html</link>
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<title>Erleichterung im Winter (2/22/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/erleichterung-im-winter.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Odalisque on State (2/22/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-street-scene-odalisque-on-state.html</link>
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<title>Mies to Stop Flowing at IBM Lobby? (2/21/12)</title>
<description>Temporary partitions or permanent barriers?</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/mies-to-stop-flowing-at-ibm-lobby.html</link>
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<title>Creative Placemaking, 5 Big Ideas, North Grant Revised, plus Lifson on Prentice, Uhlir on Netsch, Aquilino, Doug Reed - lots more for February (2/18/12)</title>
<description>Graceland, Casino, Roman Catholic Art and Architecture - more than 30 great events still to come</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/creative-placemaking-5-big-ideas-north.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Rediscovered in a Luminous Field, at Cloud Gate only through Monday (2/18/12)</title>
<description>Luftwerk transforms Da Bean with color and light</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/discovering-chicago-in-luminous-field.html</link>
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<title>One Month to St. Patrick's Day, Fourth Presbyterian Goes Securock Green (2/17/12)</title>
<description>what's the wrap</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-month-to-st-patricks-day-fourth.html</link>
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<title>Attack of the Hypothetical Fare Scenarios (2/14/12)</title>
<description>please rank each of the following 250 options in order of desirability . . . </description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/attack-of-hypothetical-fare-scenarios.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Public Parking (2/14/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-streetscene-public-parking.html</link>
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<title>Chicago under Construction: Burberry's on Michigan (2/13/12)</title>
<description>two will get you five</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-under-construction-burberrys-on.html</link>
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<title>new for February: Oganwu, How Much Does it Cost?, Navy Pier, Chicago Cultural Plan and more (2/12/12)</title>
<description>and a great website for exploring the proposals for a new Navy Pier</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-for-february-oganwu-how-much-does.html</link>
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<title>The Death of the Newspaper:  Here, Let me Help (2/10/12)</title>
<description>from shock and denial, to anger, bargaining, working through, and just not giving a crap</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/death-of-newspapers-here-let-me-help.html</link>
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<title>Four Buildings and a Funeral: Wrigley - the Architecture that remains when a Great Company dies (2/8/12)</title>
<description>from the Save Prentice Coalition and Architecture For Humanity Chicago</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2011/09/wrigley.html</link>
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<title>Last week to send  Goldberg's Prentice a valentine, plus AFP Chicago's urban acuuncture(2/7/12)</title>
<description>arom the Save Prentice Coalition and Architecture For Humanity Chicago</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/last-week-to-show-prentice-some-love.html</link>
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<title>Lifson on Prentice Curves, Explore Engineering at CAF, Marie Aquilino, Carolyn Armenta Davis, People's History and Preservation, plus last days for Bertrand Goldberg: Reflections - more for February (2/6/12)</title>
<description>50 great items still to come.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/lifson-on-prentice-curves-explore.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene: Ghosts, 1911 (2/5/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-streetscene-ghosts-1911.html</link>
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<title>Tigerman's reverie, CAF's casino, Uhlir's Netsch, Yolande Daniels, Ragdale, the Monroe, Roosevelt's Vertical Dorm and more - it's the February calendar! (2/2/12)</title>
<description>40 great events, and more to come.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/tigermans-reverie-cafs-casino-uhlirs.html</link>
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<title>The Donald: Trump Riverwalk ghost town ok with me (2/1/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/donald-trump-riverwalk-ghost-town-ok.html</link>
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<title>Gummy Passage: Why Landmarking the Wrigley needs to consider its elegant plaza (1/31/12)</title>
<description>Protecting Michigan Avenue's grand gateway to River North</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/gummy-passage-why-landmarking-wrigley.html</link>
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<title>Urban Degreening: Garden Gateway to Back Door Stonefest (1/28/12)</title>
<description>Remembering the AMA Building Park</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/urban-degreening-garden-gateway-to-back.html</link>
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<title>North Grant Park at Block 37, Archeworks Mid-Year Design, McCurry's Distillations, Urculo and Bruder - still more for January (1/25/12)</title>
<description>still a dozen events to come in January</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/north-grant-park-at-block-37-archeworks.html</link>
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<title>today's daVinci or merely the future of British Architecture? Thomas Heatherwick at Crown Hall this Thursday (1/24/12)</title>
<description>from the Seed Cathedral to Bleigiessen and beyond.</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/todays-davinci-or-merely-future-of.html</link>
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<title>A winter's tale: stritch embroidery on a Miesian grid (1/22/12)</title>
<description>snow transforms the urban backdrop</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/winters-tale-stitch-embroidery-on.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene:  The Way Home (1/21/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-streetscene-way-home.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene:  Art of Winter (1/18/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-streetscene-art-of-winter.html</link>
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<title>Spectatorium (Pocket Guide to Hell), Global Cities, the Reopening of Mies' Villa Tugendhat - still more events for January (1/17/12)</title>
<description>Plus Future City 2012 Chicago Regional Finals this Saturday - still nearly three dozen events to come this January</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/spectatorium-pocket-guide-to-hell.html</link>
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<title>History Discarded, History Preserved - the different fate of two Chicago churches associated with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1/13/12)</title>
<description>a living modernist gem, a century-old synagogue facing demolition</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/history-discarded-history-preserved.html</link>
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<title>Architecture Chicago plus Cancelled: Snow! (1/13/12)</title>
<description>a brave city battles an anemic dusting</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/architecturechicago-plus-cancelled-snow.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene:  Meditati-cat, Lincoln Avenue (1/12/12)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-streetscene-lincoln-square.html</link>
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<title>The Mummy of River North: Chicago has gone New Hotel Crazy - Just not at LaSalle and Huron (1/11/12)</title>
<description>staggered truss means build it fast; running out of money means let it sit for four years and counting</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/mummy-of-river-north-chicago-has-gone.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Under Construction: Going Aloft by Holding Back the Earth (1/10/12)</title>
<description>three hotels, 600 rooms - book now</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-under-construction-going-aloft.html</link>
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<title>VOA's Old Town School of Music Opens Today (1/9/12)</title>
<description>all I got was this pathetic photograph, but you can tour the building for yourself today</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/voas-old-town-school-of-folk-music.html</link>
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<title>Last Week for AIC Bertrand Goldberg shows, plus Japanese 1960's projects, Kenneth Frampton, Re-Envisioning Navy Pier - a dozen new items for the January calendar (1/9/12)</title>
<description>also Landscape Design with Lurie Garden staff and Roy Diblik, Architectural Drawing, Residential Forecast - over three dozen events still to come this month</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-week-for-aic-goldberg-shows-plus.html</link>
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<title>The Architects behind the Architects: Anne Tyng dies at 91 (1/7/12)</title>
<description>the geometry of a remarkable life and career, rediscovered at age 90</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/architects-behind-architects-anne-tyng.html</link>
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<title>John Ronan's Poetry Foundation wins 2012 AIA Honor Award (1/6/12)</title>
<description>Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion in Indianpolis by Guy Nordenson and Associates also cited</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/john-ronans-poetry-foundation-wins-2012.html</link>
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<title>Come and Dream With Me: Scorsese's rapturous Hugo and why you shouldn't miss it (1/6/12)</title>
<description>see it on the big screen and in 3-D while you still can</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/come-and-dream-with-me-scorseses.html</link>
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<title>One Tower for the Meatpackers; One for the Fashionistas - Ross Barney's new Morgan Street Station bridges old and new Fulton Market  (1/5/12)</title>
<description>after 63 years, an 1893 station finally gets its replacement</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/one-tower-for-meatpackers-one-for.html</link>
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<title>Classicist/Modernist Smackdown, Luis Urculo, Margaret McCurry, Future City 2012, Cobb, Tugendhat and more - it's the January Calendar! (1/3/12)</title>
<description>plus The L, Bloomindale Trail, Hedrich-Blessing and much more</description>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-classicist-vs.html</link>
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<title>Ricardo Legorreta, who brought back the sun to the U of C's Gothic gray, dies at 80 (12/31/11)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2011/12/riccardo-legorreta-who-brought-color-to.html</link>
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<title>Chicago Streetscene:  Towards a Better 2012 - Happy New Year! (12/31/11)</title>
<link>http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2011/12/chicago-streetscene-towards-better-2012.html</link>
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<title>      Happy 150th Birthday Louis Sullivan - We've Burned Down Your Third Building This Year! (11/05/06)</title>
<description>George M. Harvey house destroyed by early morning blaze.</description>
<link>http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/harveygone/harveygone.htm</link>
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<title>       Slumming up Marina City (9/27/06)</title>
<description>Base of House of Blues Hotel at iconic Bertrand Goldberg complex in Chicago being steeped in battleship gray </description>
<link>http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/hobpaint/hobpaint.htm</link>
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