How a forgotten property may prove more valuable than the entire Wrigley Building purchase price http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/09/update-wrigley-windfall-lastest-twist.html The beginning of the epic story of one of Chicago's most historic neighborhoods http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/09/flip-city-prelude-end-of-st-dominics.html Wolf Point West, River Point, and 150 North Riverside under construction http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/09/along-chicagos-new-skyscraper-row-one.html Where the public doesn't appear to be welcomed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/09/chicagos-public-riverwalk-building.html The Forum, Chicago Commons and Meatcutters HQ http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/09/division-street-bridge-gets-old-bailey.html temporary bridge uses construction system developed in World War II http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/09/hidden-in-plain-sight-architecture-of.html the last days of the Lake Shore Athletic Club http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-affectionate-last-look-at-building.html the runup to Luftwerk's installation at Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/up-on-rooftop-night-and-art-at-marina.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/updates-day-one-no-casino-for-wabash.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/butchered-burnham-monday-will-new.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-dream-of-flight-hits-beach-scenes.html The Russell House's secret; Fulton Market's boom-town http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/two-tales-of-city-chicago-history-to.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/five-cityforms.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/pour-le-concret-chicagos-new-riverwalk.html Urban theater of the surreal on Oak Street Beach http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/08/play-with-my-feetmagritte.html Making a century-old, pioneering bridge vanish from the urban equation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/short-division.html To be renamed today the Jane M. Byrne Plaza http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/finding-janes-place-at-water-tower-park.html Enter through the giant sea slug http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/whats-red-and-blue-and-on-mezzanine-red.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/scenes-from-saturday-walk-through.html Summer theater in the big city http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/summer-in-city-bride-wore-white.html I Saw the Signs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/mr-trump-meet-mr-loew.html The Crown Jewel of Chicago's Millennium Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/gehrys-web-on-its-10th-anniversary-how.html Cutting through the puffery to try to see what really makes it special http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/celebrating-millennium-parks-10th.html Magritte for migratory birds and low-flying planes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/07/voyeur-on-roof-what-was-art-institute.html unofficial contest sponsred by Chicago consulting firm VIATechnik http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/wasting-no-time-on-george-lucas-museum.html cites constituent concerns over parking and congestion http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/reilly-demands-less-toppings-declares.html what they said, and how they looked when they said it http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/rahm-gates-gang-and-more-photo-portrait.html even as indispensable Adler and Sullivan book remains out of print http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/john-vinci-to-receive-aia-chicago-2014.html From fast cars, to beer, hard liquor, and Prudentiality http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/20-feet-high-how-about-23-stories.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/oded-on-outrage-donalds-sign-is-very.html dozens of great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/neocon-and-aia-national-convention.html did you know . . . ? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/frank-lloyd-wright-at-147-still-dead.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/from-balcony-dusk.html Chicago issues Bid Documents for proposals to create "North America's City of Lights" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/this-is-international-competition.html No room for Mrs Devon? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/06/tarot-to-tacos-upscaling-of-state-north.html Spoiler alert: they made it. (And a preview of the installation) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/only-til-saturday-for-luftwerk-campaign.html Theodore Thomas house and 1855 Russell-Dyhrenfurth house latest to fall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/preservation-scorecard-wreckers-2.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/memorial-day-in-pictures.html at the Chicago Cultural Center http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/only-until-sunday-for-tim-samuelsons.html announced Tuesday at Crown Hall on campus of IIT College of Architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/pezo-von-ellrichshausen-wins-first.html slumming up a thriving neighborhood with a soaring trestle http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-third-of-billion-dollars-to-save-15.html winner to be announced Tuesday evening http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/four-finalists-for-mchap-emerging.html great weekend stories remind us why newspaper still matter http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/of-300-million-pork-barrel-roller.html Definitely a sign . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/seven-ways-of-looking-at-t.html plus Hearst Castle, saving Farnsworth, Congress Street and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/still-to-come-this-month-john-tolva.html waves of giant puff pillow dominoes,complete with sea serpent http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/sea-of-foam-at-maggie-daley-matt.html peninsula, actually, but you get the general idea http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/chicago-on-spring-morning-architecture.html UIC, IIT, SAIC http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/archipalooza-not-one-not-two-three.html Donald Trump spells out his name in shiny 20-foot letters http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/battle-of-bling-rages-between-two.html red, yellow and robin's egg at bKL's LSE GEMS http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/pretty-ribbons.html SCB tower ripens towards January opening http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/05/loews-risen-shiny-and-with-really-big.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/telescoping-chicago.html How can a design be conventional and subversive at the same time? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/schizoid-plaza-what-does-illinois.html Chicago's Waldorf-Astoria - the luxury development with so many upheavals it's been named twice http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/heartbreak-hotel.html two hotels in a new tower - with pizza http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/tactical-insertion-friedmans-45-story.html Changing of the the architectural guard at Fulton Market http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-brick-stackers.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/architectural-scenes-from-city.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/first-warm-day-in-april.html Will this be a different kind of architect's lecture? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/jeanne-gang-updates-freud-will-tell-not.html religious genre of the home shrine explored through architectural exploration http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/inaugural-garofalo-fellow-molly-hunker.html Bays go bye-bye http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/take-astrologer-leave-brick-columns-740.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/four-chicago-rooftops.html nearly 50 great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/04/chicagoisms-dyja-szot-baker-carson.html incised ribbons on the river http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/abandoned-building-to-luxury-tower-111.html documentary considers the evolution of Life Between Buildings http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/beyond-superhighways-and-supertalls-jan.html Henry Hope Award to preservation activist Ruan Yisan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/revenge-of-classicists-driehaus-award.html pushing against the glitz by honoring an architect of the dispossesed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/shigeru-provides-bandaid-for-pritzker.html is bringing a lawyer into top management a sign of entering the big leagues? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/gregg-garmisa-named-studiogang.html Pushing to landmark their new Art Deco home http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/studiogang-on-move-about-to-enter-its.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/once-more-with-greening-celebrating-st.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/river-turns-green-spectators-turn-blue.html 50 great items and counting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/03/mo-maas-van-berkel-balmori-petit-vinci.html antiquing on the run in River North http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/bring-in-da-bars-push-out-da-funk.html Tim Samuelson exhibition runs through May http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-triumphant-exhibition-creates-time.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/snow-mas.html noon CDT announcement from CCA Montreal to be streamed live http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/wiel-arets-gets-iit-into-architecture.html new rendering unveiled http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/blushing-with-bling-is-this-future-of.html forty great events already on tap http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-kabballah-in-architecture-soms.html . . . while Luminence turns shadows to rainbows at Millennium Park ice skating rink http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/02/architecture-as-canvas-luftwerk-takes.html still another study on tap for saving endangered Beaux Arts structure http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/preckwinckle-calls-another-code-blue-at.html The History of Rush Street through the Eyes of a Single Building http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/is-it-too-early-to-start-worrying-about.html looking beyond the river bridges to the potential of the Loop L http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/chicago-city-of-light-mayor-rahm-sees.html just a quick sprint to Burnham and Root's Great Northern Hotel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/first-class-lady-barber-shop-and-cigars.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/tiepolo-over-irving-park.html a hallucination of sumptuous images and emotions http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-astonishing-experience-la-grand.html pending demolition, owner said to be entertaining alternative offers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/wanna-buy-historic-home-update-on-1896.html Part of Paris goes noodles http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/bricks.html escape cabin fever with some of the great events still to come this month http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/rural-studio-wrights-chicago-years.html staggered truss structure sheds its wraps http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/four-years-past-its-due-date-striking.html plus our Photogallery of Art on the Street (and Viaduct) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/street-smarts-chicago-street-art-at.html new towers and anchor tenants http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-art-of-pitch-selling-goettsch.html dozens of great events still to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/katherine-darnstadt-at-apple-store.html Sheridan Park home moving towards a January 13th demolition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/say-goodbye-to-1896-george-h-phillips.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-day-at-and-around-museums.html#more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/and-now-for-something-completely.html Strip Malls for everyone? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/beginning-of-end-for-chicagos-historic.html dozens of great events to start off the New Year http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2014/01/150-north-riverside-jeanne-gang-on.html Martin Filler considers the new Kimbell http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/art-institutes-20th-century-masters.html From Mies to Frank Gehry, and everything in between http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-year-in-chicago-architecture-our.html Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/christmas-in-chicago-architecture-2013.html Interior Architecture Gnawed Clean at a Doomed Dominick's http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/bargain-day-on-street-of-regrets.html City's architecture provides spectacular backdrop for India action blockbuster http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/friday-chicago-is-dhoom-ed.html a covered plaza, a raised terrace and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/john-ronan-walks-us-through-his-first.html this whole revive-the-tower thing may actually be working http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/111-west-wackers-red-crane-flies-coop.html the everyday city, up close and personal http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/chicago-through-eye-of-commute-new.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-walk-through-city-on-warm-december.html#more Kimpton cooking up plans to make landmark 1894 financial district building a hotel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-kinder-future-for-jenneys-new-york.html the toll of relentness sanitizing on the helium filled front http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/12/when-did-parade-balloons-stop-being.html even in this holiday month, dozens of great events to check out http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/pecha-kucha-28-lallys-air-from-other.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/chicago-tree-lighting-night-2013.html As Goldberg's Prentice is destroyed, a 500-car garage is reprieved as John Ronan's new 151 North Franklin moves forward http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/great-architecture-is-fleeting-ugly.html a new tower looks to update the architecture of the neighborhood town square http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/light-and-shade-at-polish-triangle.html colors pop when the sun goes down at the quintessential urban school http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-preview-new-jones-college-prep-at.html contemporary design adjoins International Style nestling within the traditional architecture of Humboldt Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/ronans-stackables-erie-elementary.html must reach $15,000 goal by Saturday morning http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/last-three-days-for-kickstarter-cam.html Juarez and Billy Goat can rest easy, at least for a while http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/alderman-reilly-put-brakes-to-realtors.html Off-putting and engaging at the same time http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/orange-you-glad-to-see-me-hubbard-place.html richly illustrated with both historic and contemporary photographs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/chicago-historic-schools-great-new.html Will Michigan Avenue host another new skyscraper? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-realtors-new-skyscraper-billy-goats.html One World Trade Center - overconfident or on the inside track? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/place-your-bets-willis-tallest-building.html plus three short films on demolition and urban renewal in the 1960's and 70's http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/wednesday-asthma-and-housing-today.html are we nearing the end of the monthly architectural calendar? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/11/lambert-and-arets-plensa-and-kreloff.html Smokefall at the Goodman,, Ugo Rondinone at AIC http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/model-chicago-engulfed-by-water-at-caf.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/rare-greenway-self-park-turbines.html at Designight gala tonight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-stanley-tigerman-miscellany.html this year's recipient for Architecture Design http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/as-jeanne-gang-is-honored-at-cooper.html original decoration rediscovered in hotel rehab http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/cue-gondoliers-henry-ives-cobbs-lavish.html how not to make an eyesore disappear http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/gray-ghost-dead-architectural-souls-on.html House of Blues, Gratz Center and the Brewster also included http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-st-james-chapel-to-elks-national.html some of city's greatest interiors on rare public display http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/saturday-sunday-open-house-chicago-2013_18.html Jeanne Gang, on the waterfront http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/studiogang-keeps-aquatic-wms-boathouse.html foundations going into for the Rehabilitation Institute and Loyola's State Street development http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/as-prentice-is-beaten-into-ground-three.html Chicago streets - meet 45,000 runners http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/marathon.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-run-before-run-chicago-marathoners.html a slough despond fills with a new tower http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/windows-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-windows.html giving the taxpayer building a bad name http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/instant-abject-replaces-finely-aged.html and two visions for the neighborhood library, in Chicago's Back of the Yards and Chinatown http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/designing-chicagos-library-of-future.html plus Jens Jensen, Harry Weese, Graceland and BIG - the October calendar continues to swell http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/10/its-steelday-take-staggered-truss-to.html from Los Lobos de Loyola to Madonna della Strada Chapel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/views-of-loyola-university-campus-on.html 111 West Jackson grows up past Waterview, River Point, 1K Fulton http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/chicago-under-construction-or-not-seven.html also Playboy Architecture, Edgar Allan Poe, Christophe Cornubert, Iñaki Alday . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/tigerman-adrian-smith-dominque-perrault.html a new Dean of Architecture puts his mark on an architectural icon http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-redesign-of-interior-of-mies-van.html a forgotten industrial monument finds immortality in the movies http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/architecture-as-tinder-michael-bays.html Venice Biennale work by Stanley Tigerman, Studio/Gang, UrbanLab, David Brown and Alexander Eischenschmidt on view only through Sunday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/how-to-build-better-city-by-going-off.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/towers-skylines-and-clouds-on-brisk.html five installations along the Chicago river. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/chicago-under-dome-only-through-sunday.html second edition of massive art show with work from 120 galleries runs through Sunday at Navy Pier http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/hunting-of-snarkitecture-photo-tour-of.html dinner under the Harvest Moon with a thousand close friends http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/flash-mob-all-in-white-diner-pops-up-in.html over 1,000 employees take a two-block trip http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-official-ama-abandons-kenzo-tange.html art, architecture and music meet at five riverfront locations from Michigan to Madison http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/tonight-through-sunday-chicago-river-on.html a civic gem crumbles http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/relief-for-art-deco-reliefs-and-ashland.html Blair gives you the review; we give you some pictures http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/stacked-box-gateway-pelli-clarke-pellis.html OCP rising; Prentice imploding http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/at-northwestern-medical-campus-one-up.html Zombie buildig no more, the lustre of its original aluminum spandrels is being restored http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-prudential-rediscovers-its-shine.html The story of Paul Gerhardt's 1920 Hupmobile showroom http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/little-egypt-on-sheridan-road-will-it.html over 40 great events still to come this month http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/baer-urban-provocations-with-tigerman.html After numerous studies and votes to restore it, Chicago's Beaux-Arts landmark remains abandoned http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/historic-cook-county-hospital-soon.html 50 great items with more to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/thom-mayne-barry-byrne-stefan-scholten.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/last-day-of-summer.html from The Crowd to Burnham and Root's Phenix http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/09/for-labor-day-2013-worker-spaces-in.html what should be the Chicago equivalant of Shanghai's roasted duck ferry? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/duckies-rubber-cooked-and-with.html 45-floor residential highrise would replace Holabird and Root's 6-story 1927 structure http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/sending-pegasus-aflight-preliminary-bkl.html Chicago Department of Transportation RFP seeks to enliven 49 neighborhood public spaces http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/mcplazas-privatizing-chicagos-orphan.html soft edge goes hard, eventually get resofted on top http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/chicago-under-construction-park-at.html two competition winners now on display http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/enter-blob-hammock-on-lawn-activate.html trailer unveiled during VMA Awards highlights Chicago locations http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/and-oscar-goes-to-divergent-production.html Pond and Pond on Larchmont http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/bell-howell-where-arts-and-crafts-meet.html Michael Van Valkenburgh design at midpoint towards fall 2014 opening http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/better-performing-seals-find-new-home.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/molly-hunker-awarded-inaugural-doug.html Crain's Chicago Business reports new owner plans to start construction within 90 days http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/inside-art-deco-chicago-motor-club-has.html#more shock and awe on a sunny Saturday morning http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/architectural-destruction-as-political.html a strange presence in Pilsen http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/ghost-church.html returning show attracts 120 international galleries, September 19-22 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/snarckitecture-added-studiogang-back-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/cloudy-day-chicago-skyline.html September 22nd reception at the former Commonwealth Edison complex http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/from-auto-parts-to-art-mana.html still more for the August calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/exley-discusses-architectureisfun-at.html installations to be on display week of August 26 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/blah-blah-blob-on-plaza-trainyard-in.html at AIA Chicago August 21 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/oh-uh-just-one-more-thing-arups-mahadev.html A decidedly mixed decade for the great Chicago architect http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/losing-and-abusing-louis-sullivan-again.html Complexity and Contradiction at the The Bloomingdale Trail http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/great-sunday-reading-kogan-on-graceland.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/saturday-streetscene-has-government.html Are these really good ideas? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/sour-disposition-friday-vue53-and-606.html Are these really good ideas? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/sour-disposition-friday-vue53-and-606.html Lux reliefs create a great new destination http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/visting-north-bridge-whos-that-great.html still more great new items for August http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/last-chance-to-see-two-great-shows.html new rehab reimagines underused public plaza off Michigan Avenue http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/plaza-sweet-miesian-illinois-center.html giant minkeys part of Stefan Sagmeister's The Happy Show at the Chicago Cultural Center http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/whats-up-monkeybutt.html an accident at the landmark Brewster Building brings Chicago's surviving water tanks out of the shadows http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/08/water-tanks-urban-menace-or-historic.html People Spot repels parking spots http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/extruded-seashell-on-southport.html almost thirty great events already on the schedule http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/wim-de-wit-ilianna-kwaske-placemaking.html A look at the ruins of the world's first residential university and plans for its present-day successor http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/1600-years-of-sleeping-with-strangers.html Only through July 31, vote your favorite of 25 entries to Activate Union Station placemaking contest http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/skatepinballastroturftextballoonblobhig.html plus Panama Bananas and collapsing trees http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/dumped-at-side-of-highway-father.html plus a day care center by Wheeler Kearns http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/chicago-under-construction-earl-shapiro.html latest installation in MCA Plaza Project debuts July 23 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/you-should-see-rest-of-her-or-whats.html artifact of Chicago's industrial history, abandoned since 1977, complete with its own peninsula http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-power-of-useless-history-and.html and should it? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/overbite-will-new-plan-for-old-post.html going to the cupboard http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/chicago-streetscenes-green-hyatt-valets.html empty Century Building has new mural http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/whalenado-float-streams-fruit-of-sea.html first look revealed Wednesday by 42nd ward alderman Brendan Reilly http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/giant-punch-stamp-on-river-first.html Johnson and Lee Architects design immersed in industrial Chicago between two great bridges http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-first-of-chicagos-four-new.html Goetsch Partners project rising on dramatic lakefront site http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/chicago-evanston-under-construction.html a new Business Week report details how Edward Lampert is driving Sears - and K-Mart - in the ground http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/retro-saturday-architecture-of-triumph.html recent $25 million renovation opens new opportunities to make great station a true civic hub http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/behind-black-curtain-union-stations.html 30 great events still to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/cafs-river-tonight-bruce-goffs-ford.html long-awaited hotel opens today in the landmarked skyscraper that was Mie's last tower http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/mies-goes-soft-at-ibm-building-langham.html using vegetation to combat receding hairlines. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/from-cows-to-chias-on-parade-giant.html embrace the orange http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/mais-no-lascaux-in-cave-of-red-line.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/tina-and-tony-and-wedding-party-street.html as the Gene Siskel explores film in 4K, a look back at some of our favorite pieces on film and opera http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/retro-saturday-dramatic-masterpiece.html three dozen great events to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/broken-windows-at-polish-triangle-anne.html plus the uber-American story of Leopold Stokowski http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-could-be-more-american-for.html exhibition ripe for Dali-ance http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/holiday-excursion-architecture-seen-and.html potential Chicago piazza awaits its waiters http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-2-million-bargain-wrigley-building.html over 30 great items http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/07/chicago-debates-wrigley-river-runs.html a celestial vaulting in a historic neighborhood scrubbed clean http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/as-james-turrell-transforms-wrights.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/study-in-black-and-red-stanley-cup-day.html one condemned; one reprieved http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/james-and-mary-two-contrasting.html still more for June http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/where-if-not-us-participatory-design.html claustrophobic and serene? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/infinite-curve-vinolys-chapel-at-u-of-c.html algorithms take over from frozen fish http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/googleplex-comes-to-fulton-market.html Crombie Taylor building in Uptown focus of full-court preservation press http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/chicago-legends-george-wendt-and-joe.html ceremony marks new recognition for historic 1874 church http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/chicago-jewel-unhidden-inside-shaws.html what's going on in the Inland Steel lobby? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/icehendge-chicago-has-new-frank-gehry.html a revelatory exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center re-discovers two major Chicago artists http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-art-and-politics-of-gender.html lots of new stuff just added to the June calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/version-festival-swiss-futures-marshall.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/some-say-world-will-end-in-fire.html They have it at Loews http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-build-flying-staircase.html sheep on the crossover http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/saturday-news-what-would-you-put-under.html news notes from all over http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/friday-news-brickworld-activate-union.html Journalism's journey from Pulitizer-Prize to "whatever" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/in-age-of-supply-chain-is-there-any.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/blackhawk-lions-target-bruins.html How can something so ugly be so compelling? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/frayed-motley-bankers-building-master.html for a big-budget production filming in Chicago, it takes a village, just not for long http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/hilberseimer-place-divergent-s-housing.html a celebration of the Chicago River http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/preview-shall-we-gather-at-ping-tom.html from Hennepin County Jail to Robie House, Unity Temple, and immortality http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/retro-saturday-happy-146th-birthday.html talk by Marian Bantjes on Saturday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/art-friday-kanecko-finally-re-opens-red.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/pics-from-this-mornings-rally-for.html new show at Western Exhibition Friday; Riccardo Muti leading the Chicago Children's Choir at Sunday's dedication of new boathouse at Ping Tom Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/marshall-browns-center-of-world-friday.html industry to the west, gentrification to the east http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/hour-of-goose-new-water-taxi-run-offers.html a portrait through time of a half mile of city http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/studiogangs-clark-park-boathouse-and.html a look back at the architect's work in Chicago, on the Red and Blue lines and beyond http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/06/retro-saturday-cta-red-line-and-myron.html over 60 great items already on the schedule, with more to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/bigs-bjarke-spontaneous-sorkin-cruz.html plus moves http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/thursday-news-edition-afh-rebuilding.html CAF Wednesday lecture on Viceroy Hotel rehab streaming live http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/direct-from-venice-provocations-for.html part two of three http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-do-you-get-to-ama-plaza-high-tech.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/memorial-day-chicago.html part one of three http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/apotheosis-of-skyscraper-rise-of-mies.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/preview-and-streetscene-order-and.html the construction site as street theater http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/435-way-cool-even-in-daylight.html to tide you over while we work on our latest TLDR http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-nightscene-triple-crown.html at the Auditorium just through Sunday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/travesty-or-head-trip-eifmans-rodin-at.html pay no attention to the True Romance Cultural Center description - this should be a great show http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/opening-saturday-modernisms-messengers.html from Nature Boardwalk to the cow overlooking Altgeld http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/northern-excursion-journey-through.html plus a clunky Borders strips down to turn Akira http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/hyde-park-under-construction-hyatt.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-streetscene-evolution.html one production had no money; one had it coming out of its ears http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/two-must-sees-gatsby-if-only-for.html history meets structure where life is lived day-to-day http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/southern-excursion-journey-through.html converted bulldog of a church in Bridgeport http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/buddhist-burnham-and-root.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/preview-changing-cmd-and-potential-of.html Monday, May 13th deadline, $3,000 first prize http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/last-week-to-submit-for-cacs-next-stop.html Drawbridges on WYCC tonight; Baer's 10 Buildings on PBS this Sunday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-drawbridges-and-10-buildings.html 600 LEDS and metal trellises do battle against a concrete gully at the edge of the Loop http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/lipstick-glowing-on-off-ramp-new.html and a new Business Week survey on the widening gap between executive and worker pay http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/retro-saturday-dark-at-end-of-supply.html new 23-story tower will feature sculpture from Dale Chihuly http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/is-white-modesty-new-overreaching.html plus Greene, Spirit of Design - nearly 50 more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/mars-realigns-wright-achilles-on.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/rene-magritte-wrigley-rehab-designer.html couldn't we just tack on rooms to the current McDonald's instead? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/foul-ball-hotel-in-your-face-mediocrity.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicago-nightscene-under-fronds.html preview the great roster of 40 plus events and counting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicagos-picasso-10-most-endangered.html petition to have Pritzker Commitee recognize Denise Scott Brown continues to grow http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/retro-saturday-architects-pritzker-dare.html 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 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-ring-comes-to-south-kensington-from.html Onlinve survey solicits feedback from CTA riders http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-cta-l-cars-may-last-for-40-years-do.html Plus: Does Chicago Plan Anymore? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/today-aesthetics-and-culture-of-healing.html Aloft to River Point, Optima, AMLI, Hubbard, Jones and beyond http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicago-under-construction.html A classic Chicago skyscraper becomes a hotel as a menagerie pretends not to notice http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/activated-virgin.html plus tickets still available for annual Wright housewalk in May http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/barbara-mann-on-place-of-space-in.html new, massive, Internet Library debuts http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/mies-i-am-not-polygamist-so-says.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/wednesdays-pride-lions-of-chicago.html new Chicago Architectural Club competition seeks better design http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/next-stop-brt-stations-as-chicago.html dozens of great events still to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/new-geographies-5-shirley-king-for-caf.html Landmarks Commission a faith-based initiative http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/grossman-and-kents-final-word-on-how.html . . . as new Hotel Langham Chicago comes to the classic Chicago skyscraper http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/five-things-i-learned-from-dirk-lohan.html In the Loop, it's not drones but grotesques and guard dogs that are keeping their eye on you http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/return-of-flown-gargoyles.html also this week - Bill Latoza on Walter Netsch and the Parks, John Norquist, more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/no-maas-tuesday-but-stroik-hillebrand.html special guest at first bridge lift of the season http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/professional-courtesy-chicago-river.html a whole lot of TIF money goes into creating a youthful rehab http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/baron-von-steuben-refashioned-randolph.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/late-listing-lecture-on-jl-silsbee-at.html Gipper dust on 57th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/ronald-reagan-wrecked.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicago-streetscene-as-if-coyotes.html stalled hotel takes off the wraps, basks naked in the sun http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/godfrey-my-man-youre-alive.html Santiago Calatrava designed stadium at center of new Emanuel plan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/04/if-you-build-it-will-they-come-opening.html over 50 great events and counting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/pallasmaa-jeff-day-on-monday-leiner.html will participate at 11:00 panel discussion Friday, March 29 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/wang-shu-at-crown-hall-tomorrow.html The company and the buildings that made Wal-Mart and Amazon possible http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/sears-in-chicago-at-discard-end-of-age.html hope to have it up tomorrow http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-story-im-working-on-preview-of.html 1949 headquarters on Preservation Chicago's Chicago 7 Most Endangered list for 2013 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/handsome-allstate-looking-for-good-hands.html Thomas H. Beeby award 2013 Driehaus Prize http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/photos-from-richard-h-driehaus-award.html 11:00 a.m. cermony at John B. Murphy Auditorium open to the public http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/thomas-beeby-receives-driehaus-prize.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/chicago-streetscene-damned-of-wrigley.html Picasso and Matisse head out for six month Texas excursion http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-shock-of-new-13-of-modern-wing.html will long-empty landmark finally find a tenant? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/from-dead-people-to-hardware.html Formal and Informal, emotion and ritual http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/architecture-and-mozart-sublime.html 130-year-old building scheduled for demolition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/parishioners-preservationists-hold.html ceremony at John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium open to the public http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/master-of-tradition-thomas-beeby.html demolition of Bronzeville church may begin as early as Monday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/will-130-years-of-faith-and-history.html video of Chicago's River going all Oz for St. Patrick's Day http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/thats-right-its-chicago-river-oh-yeah.html an amazing story remembered http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-end-of-epic-dream-calatravas.html The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Developers Even http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/strippers-attack-heat-up-fulton-market.html among 13 new national historic landmarks named today http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/renwickshaw-second-presbyterian.html . . . and Sagrida Familia on 60 Minutes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/new-music-for-teshigaharas-gaudi-plus.html . . . and why are there pants? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/all-quiet-on-wells-street-front.html Sears in Oak Brook, from elegance modernism to Michelin Man http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/architecture-on-road-gratuitous.html street theater without table dancers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-your-american-junkie-face-on.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/chicago-streetscene-winter-frames.html a surprising discovery at a don't-miss exhibition at the Art Institute http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/pablos-wireframes-architecture-of.html check out the 40+ events still to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/just-added-tenorios-i-speak-of-city.html a messy trek to work, but great urban theater http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-bridge-beside-river-chicago.html Howells and Hood live again at Tribune Tower http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/urban-wtf-did-forever-marilyn-flick.html call for projects to add to traveling exhibition opening in Chicago in May http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/03/red-swing-under-l-bit-of-venice.html Ponte, Preservation Bingo, Valicenti . . . you get the idea - check it all out here http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/pritzker-price-winner-shu-plus-perrault.html last showing in 70mm at Music Box festival http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/worlds-only-architectural-comedy.html plans to be presented at Grant Park Advisory Council meeting Wednesday, February 27 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/dregs-and-blind-classics-aquiver-new.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/rojos-at-uic-tonight-plus-nair-shaw.html a museum takes to the highways http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/retro-saturday-revisiting-freedoms.html on the benefits of contradiction http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/chicago-4th-most-miserable-1st-most.html plus, Jeanne Gang awarded doctorate from SAIC http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/last-days-for-inside-studio-gang-and.html hotel in Mies van der Rohe landmark scheduled for summer opening http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/at-ibm-langham-less-is-bore.html a viral outbreak of new green space forming around Wolf Point http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/finishing-river-walk-conclusion.html a climbing red vine made of steel instead of licorice http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-three-red-cranes-of-111-west-wacker.html also Leon Depres award, Food Design for Social Change, Ghost Facade, dozens of events to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/enquist-at-iit-rojo-at-uic-chattel-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/chicago-streetscene-rear-windshield.html over a dozen of the most extraordinary films of all time, in a little more than a week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/movie-lovers-paradise-or-cornucopia.html plus Future City Winners, and other engineering events throughout the month http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-national-engineers-week-full-day-of.html plus Future City Winners, and other engineering events throughout the month http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/its-national-engineers-week-full-day-of.html National Trust and Landmarks Illinois moves for voluntary dismissal of Circuit Court complaint http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-big-con-closes-northwestern-wins.html Construction underway at new Maggie Daley Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/bp-gehry-now-actually-bridge-to-nowhere.html a look at The Cove and the River Theater http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/finishing-chicago-riverwalk-part-two.html of Ricketts, Rahm and bleachers on the roof http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/ragged-liberty-of-polished-up-scaling.html rewriting history, one story at a time http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/erasing-dead-for-bkl-brininstool-and.html this week's great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/lohan-on-mies-burns-on-block-37-plus.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/sunday-news-headline-edition-how-to-get.html we knew it when it was just a ring http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/retro-saturday-construction-da-bean.html reconsidering Chicago's landmark ordinance as it nears the half-century mark http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-modest-proposal-abolish-commission-on.html theater of the absurd 1n the County Board Room http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/landmarks-commission-unanimously-votes.html vote scheduled to again condemn landmark building to dust http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/reminder-bertrand-goldbergs-prentice-on.html more details emerge at public meeting at the Chicago Architecture Foundation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/finishing-river-walk-introduction-and.html New Plan for last six blocks of Chicago River Walk to be discussed at public meeting tonight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/shall-we-gather-at-river.html tales of the city (illustrated), in loss and triumph http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/buffalo-and-chicago-sister-cities-in.html plus ACE Mentor, engineering the Washington Monument, Martha Schwartz, Forgotten Chicago - nearly 50 great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/lohan-on-mies-sambunaris-taxonomy.html Encounters with Jahn, Ross Barney, Ronan, Williams, Tsien, and Gang http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/saturday-retro-arhitects-speak.html plus Riccardo Bofill's Lego building that isn't http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/02/lego-friday-mvrdvs-million-porous.html nearly half a hundred great items, with more to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/arets-gang-gamper-ghost-facades.html are these buildings good enough for Wolf Point? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/hour-of-wolf-transformation-of-chicagos.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/at-dead-of-night-i-open-my-door-to.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/jane-austen-in-basement.html revised draft resolution published http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/lets-kill-it-twice-chicago-landmarks.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/retro-saturday-constructing-frank.html could plaza retrofit be a good investment? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/fixing-illinois-center-another-design.html February 28th deadline for applications for 9-month fellowship at UIC School of Architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/douglas-garofalo-fellowship-uic-calls.html is death in black and white? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/aftermath-some-say-world-will-end-in-ice.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/early-20th-century-central.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/working-on-wolf-point-so-heres-some.html plus Katherine Darnstadt, 2030, Future City Regional Finals http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/fishmans-next-national-plan-more-for.html Angry birds and Indigo http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/things-change-pulled-window-shades-of.html A $1,000 budget; a $2,000 scholarship http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/will-vacant-state-inspire-afhchicagos.html Is this the most spectacular - and hated - building in Chicago? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-casino-at-thompson-center-throwing.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/judith-russi-kirschner-named-art.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/jahn-simplifies-goettsch-zheng-ed-smdp.html more than two dozen great events still to come on the January Architectural Calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/esra-akcan-on-kreuzberg-plus-neil.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-fight-to-bertrand-goldbergs.html the speech that shook the 1893 World Parliament of Religions http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/ghosts-of-1893-art-institute-swami.html a controversial lobby rehab design spurs owner revolt http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/at-marina-city-bertrand-goldberg.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/coolest-construction-site-in-city.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-woman-who-created-architecture-beat.html the role of churches as urban markers and respositories of civic memory http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/heavens-to-purgatory-imploding-churches.html plus Frank Lloyd Wright's Heller House, Randolph Tower tour and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/earthquake-walk-dont-run-plus-vivian.html new alternatives from BauerLatozo, Kujawa Architecture and Loebl Schlossman and Hackl http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/striking-new-images-of-save-prentices.html new additions to over three dozen great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/towers-olympia-and-randolph-pecha-kucha.html of plazas, casinos, and Puffin' Pigeons http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2013/01/to-start-2013-three-small-chicago-fixes.html nearly three dozen great events already with more to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/yes-virginia-there-will-be-2013-we.html . . . just upholding the law. It's a federal law, actually . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/time-to-kick-2012-down-stairs-our-top.html Fifty shades of screwing caissons at 435 Park Drive http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/am-i-boring-you.html Christmas meets Chicago architecture, over the past six years http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/retro-christmas-zoo-lights-trains-trees.html Santa's gotta fly! Stand back! See ya all soon! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/christmas-in-chicago-2012-citys.html an exhibition through December 22, a major monograph, Spring 2013 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-life-rediscovered-alfonso-iannelli.html A shaggy dog of a building offers a door to a different world http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/art-alone-endures-night-at-fine-arts.html a bold new plan comes to a one mile stretch of Dearborn in Chicago's Loop http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/learning-to-love-bike-lanes-some.html early visions of North Michigan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-chicago-that-never-was-bulletin.html redesign opens up classic 1946 building http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/hillshire-hq-rehab-no-hot-dog.html a forgotten Chicago architect rediscovered http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/great-holiday-gifts-autobiography-and.html the joys of density http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/say-goodbye-to-ronald-reagans-apartment.html from Friday's event at Revolution Brewery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/doug-farr-accepts-aiachicagos-firm-of.html oral arguments scheduled for January 11 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/stay-against-demolition-of-bertrand.html maximum hotel keys reduced to 450? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/wolf-point-update-reilly-bumps-december.html on the relationship between clients and architects http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/cafs-2012-patrons-of-year-kitchen.html plus Ross Wimer and Brian Lee at CAF lunchtime http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/tonight-at-mocp-changing-chicago-project.html first Chicago outpost in over-the-top global flagship wars http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/tartan-check-mate-burberrys.html theatricality and the generic mall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/can-signage-save-block-37.html Swatch Tourbillon - what were they thinking? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/hack-fabric-swatch-mars-mag-mile-classic.html two very different types of expressways http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/12/chicago-macro-and-micro-wacker-re-opens.html Pecha Kucha, AIA/Chicago awards, Okrent, Bachrach, Prentice and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/gill-wimer-johnson-emanuel-acconci-plus.html plus: retailers named for long-empty Roosevelt Collection http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/early-christmas-gift-wrigley-building.html SAIC AIADO competition has three winning entries http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-white-clad-bride-of-chicago-skyline.html new book on Mies' Lafayette Park, at the Graham on Thursday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanks-for-views-mr-mies-one-more-event.html How Theo Noel and Vitae-ore spurred a new bank http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/from-drugs-to-dollars-to-deli-story-of.html effective December 31; will remain on faculty http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/judith-russi-kirschner-resigns-as-dean.html A retail strip emerges; a landmark languishes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-theater-vanishes-two-mcclurgs.html site stripped clean http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/tabula-rasa-daley-bi-ready-for-its.html a photo essay on Chicago's Thanksgiving Day Parade http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/parade.html#more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/happy-thanksgiving.html Rahm Emanuel at Daley Plaza http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-holiday-tradition-bad-video-of.html a preview of what may be the world's most elegant drug superstore http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/noel-noel-walgreens-revival.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/two-nightscenes-gothic-and-roswellian.html new wing at MACRO, Rome investigates the issue of color http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/architect-as-goth-odile-decq-to-lecture.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/chicago-streetscene-fifty-shades-of.html Michigan Avenue prepares for this year's Festival of Lights http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/waiting-for-mickey.html Circuit Court Judge stays revocation of preliminary landmark designation until December 7 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/even-it-its-death-throes-bertrand.html is it time to rethink Pioneer Court and Cityfront Plaza? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/mother-of-mercy-is-this-really-gateway.html charges Commission with violating Landmarks Ordinance http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/nationl-trust-landmarks-illinois-file.html plus, tomorrow, unveiling of Mark Davis's Healing Waters sculpture at Lurie Hospital http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/also-tonight-at-crown-hall-jean-louis.html contributors include Kelly Bair, David Brown, Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer, Clare Lyster. Andrew Moddrell, and Xavier Vendrell http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/field-uic-faculty-exhibition-opens.html this Saturday at the Art Institute http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/update-inside-studio-gang-archi-salon.html plus Karen Kice, Driehaus Museum, Eva Castro Iraola - much more for November http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/future-prentice-russian-avante-gardists.html mad and exhilarating and architecture-rich http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/holy-motors-one-week-window-to-see-one.html an excellent new resource on a Chicago icon http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/miess-860-880-lake-shore-drive-love.html waiting for the art http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/at-cta-you-can-rehab-in-any-color-as.html Barack Obama has won, but we're not just back to where we began http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-do-we-do-now.html Related Midwest rebreaks ground on stalled tower http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/waterview-has-risen-from-grave-as-111.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/under-construction-spectacular-finished.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/christmas-2012-hot-on-chicagos-tail.html there are rooks, and then there are rooks http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/boodlers-paradise-original-rookery.html six hours of sham, and then the fat lady sings http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/mission-accomplished-prentice-goes-from.html nearly 50 great events already on tap http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/11/prentice-today-behar-mccarter-castro.html The importance of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Hospital superbly documented http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/landmarks-commission-eloquent-requiem.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/emanuel-destroys-prentice.html 30,000 still photos in a little more than three minutues http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-spectacular-portrait-of-chicago-in.html a development moated in the ghosts of the great railroads http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/frontier-outpost-roosevelt-collection.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-skyscene-great-cloud-day.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-streetscene-before-fall-desert.html 16th street viaduct turns into mini-museum http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/possum-exploded-and-made-whole-roas.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/battle-for-prentice-on-chicago-tonight.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-streetscene-mashup.html over a dozen great events still to come on the October calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/meets-authors-mies-van-der-rohe.html a sculpted head that once looked down at humanity now looks down at geese on the lawn http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/exiled-to-indian-boundary-forelorn.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/george-solti-at-100.html 800 trees face their end game http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/goodbye-daley-bi-hello-maggie-daley.html an unheralded building with an interesting history http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-heretofore-unmentioned-mda-city.html Jeanne Gang proposes new 31-story tower above Bertrand Goldberg masterpiece http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/michael-kimmelman-pops-by-prentice-for.html Hungarian artist depopulates http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/and-architect-said-to-building-i-can.html will propaganda from beltway lobbyists cause a world-class building to be destroyed? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/an-open-letter-to-mayor-emanuel-on.html more great events added to to the October Calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/erich-mendelsohns-incessant-visions.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicago-architecture-sacred-and-profane.html All-star jury to include John Ronan, William F. Baker, Zoe Ryan, Martin Felsen, more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/working-this-weekend-monday-deadline.html many sites open to the public for the first time http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/open-house-chicago-complete-with-custom.html a photo essay on a remarkable new building, its story and its architects http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-reveal-tod-williams-and-billie.html observatory, accessible for first time in decades, one of 150+ sites open to the public this weekend http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/moving-marina-city-to-north-michigan.html U of C Center for Care and Discovery opens 2013 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/rafael-vinoly-talks-wright-new-hospital.html new Dean of the College of Architecture introduces himself http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-world-of-wiel-arets-lands-at-iit.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/rescheduled-saturdays-archi-salon-at.html from a haven for young girls coming to the big city, to an aviary for pigeons http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-ages-of-830-south-michigan.html plus John van Bergen month in Highland Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/10/farnsworth-alfresco-with-schulze.html Real meets surreal and gazes inside http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/wrigley-building-plaza-where-perfect.html Martin Creed Plays Chicago, at the MCA http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/hermothothers-spin-them-all-together.html over 60 great events and counting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/october-in-chicago-is-crazy-buzy.html Living Contemporary at noon auctions off designs by Holl, Arad, more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/today-200-years-of-sitting-chair-learn.html Sam Jacob's "black hole" has its surprises http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/buildings-i-love-george-schipporeits.html $45,000 to $99,000 per art budget for each rehabbed Red Line North station http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/cta-looking-for-7-or-so-good-artists.html dasHaus tour stops with Chicago through Sunday the 30th; conference on Thursday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/im-daley-platz-ist-dies-nicht-ein.html mylar domes define a street grid of galleries http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-shiny-things-studiogang-at-expo.html Architecture for Humanity/Chicago project transforms metered parking spaces http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/fore-parking-day-2012-on-milwaukee.html pictures and video http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/sculptor-marshall-svendsens-eagle-lands.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/chicago-street-scene-snow-globe.html the story of how Aqua came to be http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/studiogangs-aqua-refreshes-chicago.html Aa photo essay http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/studiogangs-aqua-from-start-to-finish.html Access to over 150 sites, many now usually open to general public, October 13 and 14 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/amazing-open-house-chicago-2012-looking.html Art isn't easy, overnight you're a trend . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/fragments-sunday-on-great-stair-with.html Saturday morning copter wakeup call http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/buzzing-bridgehouse-hollywood-star-goes.html a Photographer's Journey, a Distinctively American Life http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-remarkable-story-comes-to-close.html more for September; still three dozen great events to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/dashaus-lectures-lai-millet-dick.html where does that highway lead to? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/a-restored-emanuel-swedenborg-returns.html Chicago shines at end of summer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/wanderlust-walk-through-city-from.html I think the red carpet may be Ogden Avenue http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/expo-chicago-2012-jeanne-gang-puts.html the idealized and the documentary http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/architecture-and-photographic-eye-from.html plus a preview of OpenHouse Chicago at CAF, Fuksas, Valicenti and Glessner's 125th Anniversay Gala http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-patrica-patkau-doug-fogelsen.html yes, I'm starting a new blog http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/obama-and-romney-they-are-not-same.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/bigdk.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/prentice-on-landmarks-agenda-sometime.html who is Purple Strategies? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/astroturf-and-shady-polls-latest-in.html from city cemetery to a new urban habitat with tortoise shell pavilion https://lynnbecker.com/repeat/pond/jeanne_gang_and_the_lincoln_park_nature_boardwalk.htm massive acquisition to be shared between Columbia University and the Museum of the Modern Art http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/will-frank-lloyd-wright-archives-wave.html 42nd ward alderman Brendan Reilly announces Northwestern agrees to improvements http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/instead-of-gravel-and-chain-link-sound.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/end-of-season-rolling-summer-into.html and - now in its 15th smash month! - no Prentice on Landmarks agenda http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/das-haus-to-our-house-daley-plaza-plus.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/issac-haze-descends-on-shafts.html a landing at Lurie's Gold Coast heliport http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/09/souls-in-flight-amidst-proud-towers.html over 50 events and three new exhibitions http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/once-more-into-breach-dear-friends.html Bjarke Ingels, Scott Brown, Hartray, Coffey and Miller also call for Landmarks Commission designation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/herzog-and-de-meuron-souto-de-moura.html state-of-the-art curtain wall contains intimation of terra cotta original http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/subliminal-skin-virtual-restoration-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/runners-and-sculptures-at-end-of-late.html#more why is the Commission on Chicago Landmarks silent? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/crains-chicago-tribune-add-their-voices.html To Safeguard Wealth . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/ziggurat-with-pointy-stick.html designs 2009 and today http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/river-north-hotels-move-towards.html a small bit of shameless self promotion http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/mr-becker-inquires.html interior designer, now nearly forgotten, appointed "Director of Color" for 1893 World's Columbian Exposition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/today-at-400-at-newberry-in-search-of.html $3,000 first prize http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/future-prentice-ideas-for-saving.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/chicago-streetscene-patterns.html only through September 3rd to see essential Art Institute Retrospective http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/mind-in-gutta-lichtensteins-entablatures.html aircraft and those who love them, from the last day of the Chicago Air and Water Show 2012 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/planes-and-buildings-spectated.html a photo portrait from yesterday's rehearsal http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/air-and-water-show.html#more The battle for Bertrand Goldberg's masterpiece could be a win-win. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/northwestern-grow-up-refuting.html 10-foot high Andy Scott's maquettes one tenth the size of final sculptures http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/shimmering-in-late-summer-sun-giant.html four events in lieu of a full August calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/biggest-pecha-kucha-chicago-ever.html In a city that's a global beacon for progressive design, is this really the best we can do? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/ctas-attack-of-street-walruses.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/batcolumn-vs-bridgecolumn.html Limited Time Only! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/burberry-facade-plaid-limited-time-only.html an amazing documentation of urban life http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/portrait-of-city-at-warp-speed-eight.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/full-stop-wiel-arets-new-dean-at-iit.html has a world-wide phenomenon reached end-of-life? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/13-years-later-cows-on-parade-still.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/chicago-nightscene-cosmos-moon-crater.html reported by Edward Lifson http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/wiel-arets-new-dean-of-architecture-at.html Commission, Reilly, Emanuel remain silent even as support builds globally for Goldberg's great building http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/to-commission-on-chicago-landmarks.html first two events on August calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/thursday-city-of-bridges-animal-house_1.html curated by Zoë Ryan and Karen Kice http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/08/building-inside-studio-architects-opens.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-moustache-is.html the story behind the Wright-designed wallpaper mounted at the exhibition Wright's Roots http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/frank-lloyd-wright-hits-wall.html a handsome renovation; a new concept for the Department Store http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/white-and-red-and-louis-all-over-target.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-angry-birds.html a new facade for Hump Hair Pin Building on Spaulding http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/would-you-walk-mile-for-camel-art-deco.html there's so much more to architecture than what can be perceived through the single sense of sight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/dimming-sharpness-of-vision-fereshteh.html CHA's Plan for Transformation and Market Rate Housing clash with long time residents http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/two-gated-communities-will-lathrop.html from movie palace to multiplex http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-death-of-variety-supply-chaining-of.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-nighttime-in-venice.html some images from the first modern industrial park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/outtakes-from-central-manufacturing.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/chicago-streetscene-light-rails.html metal storefronts to go http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/back-to-future-wrigley-building-plaza.html the global supply-chaining of education http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/finally-school-for-lakeshore-east-cps.html on the railroad viaduct at Chicago and Lessing http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/horses-streetcars-and-hungry-birds.html plus Jewels in July, The Cites That Work, Pecha Kucha at Charnley-Persky House (sold out) - over three dozen events to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/color-jams-stockholder-arquitectonicas.html The new Ronald McDonald House gets an early eclipse http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/face-off.html plus four more Town Hall meetings in July http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/today-julie-burros-discusses-new.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/some-flags-we-have-known-happy.html a one-of-a-kind exhibition that should not be missed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-am-curious-morbid-but-only-through.html things pretty quiet this holida week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/07/rosenwald-apartments-panel-tonight.html at the Society of Architectural Historian's Charnley-Persky House http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/becker-to-reveal-cmds-at-pecha-kucha-0.html new exhibition explores early years of Frank Lloyd Wright and his relation to his mentor Louis Sullivan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/wrights-roots-are-showing-garrick.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-black-box-white-box.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-ii-stegosaurus.html buried alive with $300 million in TIF funds http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/lonely-flowers-at-gravesite-of.html Smith+Gill new this year at position 87. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/crunching-numbers-perkins-will-number-3.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-pride.html watch new Grove and Dempster Street viaducts put in place - live. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/why-duck-to-get-to-other-side-viaduct.html the secret of Lascaux revealed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/if-dogs-ruled-art-world-canine-ized.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/jenneys-home-lives-on-in-lego-build.html plus Jeanne Gang, Zoka Zola, Richard Meier, Kevin Roche and a plastic origami tiger - over 70 art works in all http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/buy-your-own-gehry-libeskind-holl.html new Tim Samuelson show explores Wright before the myth-making http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/back-to-wrights-roots-forward-to.html Pop-Art Drive-By http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/lichtenstein-express.html only one of these events has a dunk tank. our apologies. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/saturday-chicago-center-for-green.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-music-dismembered.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-culture-clash.html Sepideh Abtahi's Textiles and Architecture, at SAIC http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/alternative-realities-at-wolf-point.html work of young designers in architecture, interior architecture and designed objects on display in the Sullivan Galleries http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/today-tonight-tele-vision-aiado-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-head.html exhibit event at Gallery @ Living Room Realty launches latest issue on on-line mag http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/saturday-night-soiledunearthed.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/uneasy-courtship-bowman-and-magdalene.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/chicago-streetscene-ii-caged-flamingo.html prepping for July opening of new concept inner-city store retailer is pegging its growth on http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/target-goes-radred-at-louis-sullivans.html plus Bus Rapid Transit, rehabbing the Wrigley, more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/seaioi-award-pecha-kucha-22-mies.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/color-jam-360-from-drab-to-fab.html new documentary explores California houses http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/06/see-one-day-only-frank-lloyd-wrights.html Is it worth the $38 million cost? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/instant-landmark-transsystems-and-ross.html Things change. Discuss. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/hines-point.html the city revealed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/hedrich-blessings-rotting-rams.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/memorial-day-chicago-2012-beyond-words.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-10-pm-news-with.html llve webcam lets you watch multi-media artist Jessica Stockholder's work unfold http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/vinyl-explosion-creates-color-jam-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-ii-ordination-day.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-cedar-terra-cotta.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/the-billion-dollar-mansion-where-no-one.html plus James Carpenter, Ana Beha and Steven Wiesenthal http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/logan-arts-center-williams-tsien-at-art.html Lillian and Larry Goodman Center rises http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/adler-sullivans-auditorim-gets-view.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/relief-for-nato-weekend-at-lurie-garden.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/your-guide-to-nato-summit-your-country.html winners in Photograph Chicago competition to be announced http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/tonight-preservation-chicago-goes-to.html last chance to see exhibition that closes after Saturday, May 19th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/architect-as-zelig-thursday-last-night.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-inflamed-tonsil.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetsceneii-bunker.html Root canal on an urban artery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/when-bottom-drops-out-of-chicago-wack.html plus links to the list of winners and a ton of photo's http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/canstruction-2012-via-public-art-in.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/friday-lite-reading-edition.html Life! Death! Love! Floods! Scandal! And a Really Big Tree http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/where-living-and-fabricated-intersect.html over three dozen events still to come in May, with more to be added http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/bloomingdale-trail-cramer-goldberger.html Views, gardens, and a forest canopy http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/inland-stee-jewel-box-of-loop-goes-to.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicago-streetscene-animals-on-viaduct.html a final look at an epic battle to keep Chicago's lakefront Open, Clear and Free http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/reilly-drives-stake-through-heart.html over two dozen events already listed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/seaoi-awards-presentations-bachrachs.html supersized J Seward departs May 7 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/marilyn-not-forever.html plus a great Landmarks Commission report on the Portage Theatre Building, its life and times http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/at-daniel-burnhams-landmark-goodbye.html four buildings, one site, four centuries http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/past-as-applique-bettinas-poutsttchis.html waiting for MeatCo, gnawin' on a TIF http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/waiting-for-skin-400-south-jefferson.html also Guyon Hotel, Keck and Keck Blair House, more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/prentice-hospitalstill-not-dead-but-not.html Oxford Capital promises boutique lifestyle hotel by end of 2013 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/mummy-no-more-former-staybridge-about.html plus Gunny Harboe tour of Unity Temple, Midwest Bridge Symposium, more. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/goose-island-for-obscura-day-kalmbachs.html defends Holabird and Root designed State Capitol against gibes of godless Minnesotan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/north-dakota-republican-defends.html Harding and Stefanovic's The Hatchery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/pop-up-art-saturday-show-of-hands.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/road-trip.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/tuesday-i-got-nothin-edition-opposing.html nearly three dozen great offerings still to come on the April Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/digital-design-at-som-giancarlo.html one of the most remarkable stories - and most cautionary tales - in 20th Century architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/highly-recommended-unfinished-spaces.html romance and architects: a natural combination - or not? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/architecture-101-beats-hunger-games-in.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/chicago-streetscene-subway-motley.html plus The Last Harvest: Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore, only through Sunday the 15th (lecture today) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/synapses-of-america-koblins-flight.html over 50 items on the April Calendar of Chicago Architecture Events - and more to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/tschumi-tonight-plus-architecture-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/easter-weekend-streetscene-of-time-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/why-must-cancer-survivors-garden-go.html in which we atone for a number of recent inaccuracies http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/corrections.html Portage Theater on Landmarks Commission agenda for Thursday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/saving-portage-theater-and-chicago-7.html chronicler of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, and one of the great photographers of the 20th century appears in L.A. this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/04/way-more-than-wright-rare-opportunity.html at Framing Mode Gallery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/drawing-not-dead-stephen-wierzbowskis.html plus crazy kids, the Driehaus Prize and Harmid Karzai at the Modern Wing http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/of-timelessness-and-kitchen-timers-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/bad-buildings-we-love-530-north-lake.html a Google doodle honors the master of Aachen on what would have been his 126th birthday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/that-mies-hes-so-colorful.html is Chicago structure repressing its innner anthromorphism? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/scotland-gets-its-100-foot-high-kelpies.html at the John B. Murphy Auditorium http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/click-images-for-larger-view-we-wrote.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/grumpy-friday-is-thiis-really-design-or.html rebroadcasts Friday and Saturday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/architect-michael-graves-grand-tour.html Gordon Gill, Sam Jacob, Juan Herreros, Gabe Klein among nearly three dozen events still to come in March http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/david-watkin-icomoss-araoz-lost.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/st-patricks-day-in-chicago-journey-to.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/dyeing-chicago-river-green-for-st.html a city emerges into the warm http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/smiles-of-summer-night-in-march-80.html photo's and videos, in abundance http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/preview-st-patricks-day-this-year-on.html sushi and retro at the Joffrey Tower http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/impromptu-subversions-of-architectural.html nearly three dozen events on the March calendar, with more to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/graham-dishes-out-dirt-edward-mitchell.html endangered 1913 structure's history includes both Golda Meir and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/community-clean-up-day-to-save.html there's a lot more to Scorsese's sumptuous fable than you've been led to believe http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/invention-of-dreams-themes-of-martin.html Love Address in a Frankfort square http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/private-emotion-public-space-focus.html check out the unfinished March calendar - already with two dozen events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/tuesday-logjam-craig-dykers-pecha-kucha.html there's no trace of it today, but there's a lot of history at Dearborn and Lake http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/on-chicagos-birthday-175-years-of.html Pop-Up Art Galleries back on State http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/03/landmarks-ty-tabbing-on-state-street.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-streetscene-veined-lantern.html CAF's Chicago Debates: Chicago Casino to be streamed live tonight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/getting-chicago-cultures-light-out-from.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/erleichterung-im-winter.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-street-scene-odalisque-on-state.html Temporary partitions or permanent barriers? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/mies-to-stop-flowing-at-ibm-lobby.html Graceland, Casino, Roman Catholic Art and Architecture - more than 30 great events still to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/creative-placemaking-5-big-ideas-north.html Luftwerk transforms Da Bean with color and light http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/discovering-chicago-in-luminous-field.html what's the wrap http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/one-month-to-st-patricks-day-fourth.html please rank each of the following 250 options in order of desirability . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/attack-of-hypothetical-fare-scenarios.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-streetscene-public-parking.html two will get you five http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-under-construction-burberrys-on.html and a great website for exploring the proposals for a new Navy Pier http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-for-february-oganwu-how-much-does.html from shock and denial, to anger, bargaining, working through, and just not giving a crap http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/death-of-newspapers-here-let-me-help.html from the Save Prentice Coalition and Architecture For Humanity Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2011/09/wrigley.html arom the Save Prentice Coalition and Architecture For Humanity Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/last-week-to-show-prentice-some-love.html 50 great items still to come. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/lifson-on-prentice-curves-explore.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/chicago-streetscene-ghosts-1911.html 40 great events, and more to come. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/tigermans-reverie-cafs-casino-uhlirs.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/02/donald-trump-riverwalk-ghost-town-ok.html Protecting Michigan Avenue's grand gateway to River North http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/gummy-passage-why-landmarking-wrigley.html Remembering the AMA Building Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/urban-degreening-garden-gateway-to-back.html still a dozen events to come in January http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/north-grant-park-at-block-37-archeworks.html from the Seed Cathedral to Bleigiessen and beyond. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/todays-davinci-or-merely-future-of.html snow transforms the urban backdrop http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/winters-tale-stitch-embroidery-on.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-streetscene-way-home.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-streetscene-art-of-winter.html Plus Future City 2012 Chicago Regional Finals this Saturday - still nearly three dozen events to come this January http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/spectatorium-pocket-guide-to-hell.html a living modernist gem, a century-old synagogue facing demolition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/history-discarded-history-preserved.html a brave city battles an anemic dusting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/architecturechicago-plus-cancelled-snow.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-streetscene-lincoln-square.html staggered truss means build it fast; running out of money means let it sit for four years and counting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/mummy-of-river-north-chicago-has-gone.html three hotels, 600 rooms - book now http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/chicago-under-construction-going-aloft.html all I got was this pathetic photograph, but you can tour the building for yourself today http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/voas-old-town-school-of-folk-music.html also Landscape Design with Lurie Garden staff and Roy Diblik, Architectural Drawing, Residential Forecast - over three dozen events still to come this month http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-week-for-aic-goldberg-shows-plus.html the geometry of a remarkable life and career, rediscovered at age 90 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/architects-behind-architects-anne-tyng.html Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion in Indianpolis by Guy Nordenson and Associates also cited http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/john-ronans-poetry-foundation-wins-2012.html see it on the big screen and in 3-D while you still can http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/come-and-dream-with-me-scorseses.html after 63 years, an 1893 station finally gets its replacement http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/one-tower-for-meatpackers-one-for.html plus The L, Bloomindale Trail, Hedrich-Blessing and much more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/01/its-classicist-vs.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2011/12/riccardo-legorreta-who-brought-color-to.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2011/12/chicago-streetscene-towards-better-2012.html George M. Harvey house destroyed by early morning blaze. https://lynnbecker.com/repeat/harveygone/harveygone.htm Base of House of Blues Hotel at iconic Bertrand Goldberg complex in Chicago being steeped in battleship gray https://lynnbecker.com/repeat/hobpaint/hobpaint.htm