http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/xml/archchicagorss.xml News and Discussions on Architecture in Chicago and the world, as well as other sundry matters and the full-up September calendar is coming . . . promise http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/studiogang-architects-at-caf-today-2010.html strange birds on the skyline http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/bestiary-on-wabash.html Chicago's great Art Moderne movie palace soon to be history http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/final-curtain-urban-remains-selling.html includes replica of HMS Bounty, raising the question - which was more ill-fated: the original voyage or the 1962 film? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/skyscrapers-of-sea-redux-tall-ships-are.html the mosaic evolves on Block 37 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/22-west-washington-watch-from-mirrored.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicago-streetscene-hotel-housepets.html The Elysian is melting - melting! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/lucien-in-dali-land-or-limp-building-or.html a condo board invokes terrorism to harrass its residents http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/give-marina-city-hand-or-else.html (and don't worry; it's taken charge of that ugly duckling next door) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/apple-north-avenue-store-emerges-its.html a modest proposal http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-do-you-do-with-problem-like-blago.html Federal Center Post Office now classically safe http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/mies-corinthianized-ica-approved.html a little bit of Norma Desmond on the landmark Michigan Avenue streetwall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/death-in-venice-who-was-geo-h-macomber.html open house at Santa Fe Building this Saturday, August 21 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/share-wonder-of-chicago-architecture.html - and went all orange and yellowey http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-burnham-wood-come-to-daffodil-hill.html background music from the L.A. Opera http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicago-air-and-water-show-2010-in-air.html Chicago Air and Water Show 2010 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/planes-on-point-and-pretzel-trails.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/procession-with-bull-no-extra-charge.html well, at least it's clean http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/clean-sweep-at-wrigley-building.html the joy of T2i http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/i-have-new-camera.html at the Childrens Fountain, birds best vandals http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/when-cranes-return-to-clark-and-north.html almost three dozen great events in August http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/harboe-at-carsons-neutra-discusses.html The 2010 cornucopia of musical events from Lodon's Royal Albert Hall, all available via streaming audio http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/proms.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicago-streetscene-waiting-for.html Thursday August 5th events on the calendar soon to be http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-northerly-island-today-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-streetscene-boredom.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicago-streetscene-mummemschanz.html filming continues on Chicago's Wacker Drive http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/08/transformers-3-guns-may-not-be-real-but.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-streetscene-blues-in-night.html Queen Annne meets Little Italy http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/claremont-cottages-when-mass-produced.html one last added event for July, plus two rare tours in August http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/acetylated-wood-on-thursday-jens-jensen.html does my river look fat to you? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-had-little-rain-last-night-but.html exhibition open through Saturday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/closing-statement-final-reception-for.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-streetscene-prairie-avenue.html filming of Transformers 3 continues to rubble up Chicago - in a picturesque way http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/that-michael-bay-he-sure-do-make-pretty.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-streetscene-portable-graffiti.html testing . . . testing . . . testing . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/watch-out-for-foam-spikes-inside-apples.html outgrowth of Archeworks student project making 3 Logan Square stops http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/heading-to-venice-in-august-mobile-food.html beautiful visitors at Marina City - no CGI required http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/real-transformers.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-never-noticed-this-before-but-spirit.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-streetcene-general-sheridan-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/j-seward-in-subway.html subject of great article by Robert Sharoff in July Chicago mag, and in upcoming book by Robert Bruegmann http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/stormy-life-and-magical-architecture-of.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-beach-scene-with-readymade.html strange place for a wishing well http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/piano-for-your-thoughts.html at Elbridge Keith mansion on Prairie Avenue through July 17th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/architectural-photography-2010-opens-on.html are we becoming too efficient for our own good? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/cow-paths-of-rafael-nadal-does.html nearly three dozen great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/bergdoll-lohan-johnson-lothan-maddox.html spectacular addition to Chicago lakefront http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/gang-weave-nature-boardwalk-preview-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/07/chicago-summer-of-2010.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-chevrons.html Monroe Building rooftop loft home to Griffin, Mahoney, Bryne, Iannelli http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/big-green-tile-roof-on-michigan-avenue.html a Chicago epic, at the Cultural Center http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-summers-must-see-exhibition-louis.html from the IBM to the Germania, to Chatman Grand Crossing and beyond http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/landmarks.html heading towards July 7th debut http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/pritzker-eye-awaits-cornea-transplant.html dismissed by latest revolving door full of Creating Loafing execs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/vultures-claim-latest-victim-alison.html donations still being collected to cover burial expenses http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/services-today-for-aaron-dodd-at-1100.html August 28th deadline; form on-line http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/design-evanston-seeking-nominations-for.html Meteorological follies at Block 37 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/pebbles-go-bam-bam-or-broken-glass.html you can make donations via charge card, Paypal or check http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/aaron-dodd-memorial-service-friday-how.html Chicago unexpected urban oases, and a Gold Coast architectural dig http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/marina-city-and-motor-city-two-great.html the story of a tuba player who made a difference http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/silence-opens-in-music-of-city-aaron.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-down-washington.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-building-in.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-down-lake-street.html sculptor Andries Botha in Chicago to participate in two events at the U of C and the Field http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/elephant-at-mart-must-be-neocon.html a bit of street theater brings together Chicago landmarks and few hundred thousand close friends http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/red-and-black-mies-meets-hawks.html tickets still available for June 16th panel also including Franz Schulze and Richard F. Tomlinson http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/lucien-lagrange-and-bruce-graham-not-so.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-down-lake-street.html Public aspirations; secret desires - at the Music Box through Thursday, June 10th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-lies-beneath-architecture-of-fritz.html *with acknowledgements to those who helped get you there. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/happy-143rd-you-old-soundrel.html Eye of Chicago takes on a whole new meanikng http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/mayor-daley.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-all-brides-must.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-ball-and-spoke.html Friday event to include lecture on restoration by Wiss, Janney, Elstner's Brett E. Laurys http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/you-can-make-aptwglc-tour-of-wrights-s.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/chicago-streetscene-preferred-seating.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/pecha-kucha-remembering-bruce-graham.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/memorial-day-in-chicago-2010.html Archeworks co-directors Felsen and Dunn's UrbanLab also one of six finalists for $100,000 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, whose winner will be announced this week. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/beyond-carping-archeworks.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-urban-layers.html first of four sessions Park District is sponsoring seeking community input on the redesign of North Grant Park, including the proposed Children's Museum site http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/valkenburgh-on-daley-bi-north-grant.html plus, Jeanne Gang at Art Institute on Wednesday, 12 more events still to come in May http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/today-modern-architecture-in-cuba-at.html No taxpayer funds are to be harmed in this operation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/plaza-of-americas-to-get-renovation.html at East Bank Storage in Bridgeport Arts district http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/sunday-last-day-for-delestowicz.html The two faces of Block 37 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/private-gardens-in-sky-public-squalor.html Harris Yulin, serial architect http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/louis-sullivan-and-mies-van-der-rohe.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-oysters-on-asphalt.html also this week, celebrating restoration of Unity Temple; Tim Samuelson on Louis Sullivan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-events-grant-park-advisory-tonight.html winners announced Saturday atopening of an exhibition of the entries http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/alexander-lehnerer-and-team-win-1st.html also, Crown Fountain in cans, at 2010 CANstruction http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/michigan-avenue-bridge-has-its-cake.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-law-and-disorder.html preview June 3rd at Ross Barney architects http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/artists-architects-offer-up-little-sex.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/silo-tuesday-not-too-proud-to-gravel.html plus Gordon Gill at CAF, Tim Samuelson at Sullivan's Holy Trinity, restoring LeCorbu's masterpieces, Drinking in Your History, and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/acanemy-awards-michigan-bridge-at-90.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-cutaway.html Blair said "It just doesn't work". What do you think? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/buildings-that-are-lot-better-than.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-two-staircases.html May 7th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/friday-dueling-student-shows-at-uic-iit.html what a Rush! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/painted-lady-strips-down.html pub crawls and where walking tours meet happy hour http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-architecture-for-aspiring.html plus Phillip H. Bess, Pierre-Antoine Gatier and Drinking in Your History - check it all out here http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/gang-lurie-sullivan-samuelson-le-corbu.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-trains-boats-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/05/chicago-streetscene-ritz-pit.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/flower-friday.html winner to be announced June 2 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/urbanlabs-eco-boulevards-named-as.html plus a great new book on Goldberg's Marina City http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/archeworks-final-semester-review.html new exhibition takes on Fidel and Che's National Arts School, opening reception and artist's talk this Friday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/friday-at-graham-felipe-dulzaide-utopia.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/chicago-streetscene-bad-building-weave.html funk meets geometry to create a Chicago delight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/buildings-weve-grown-to-love-harry.html in this weekend's Financial Times http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/sunday-reading-weiwei-on-twitter-schama.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/chicago-streetscene-wedding-kiss.html 22,000 square foot structure in River North will be first permanent home http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-ronan-talks-about-his-new-design.html after over a century, the true story revealed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/u-of-c-biological-laboratories-puts.html a farewell party, followed by demolition - or a move? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/should-this-building-be-saved.html also at 6p.m., Monday at UIC, Jesse Reiser + Nanako Umemoto http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/visionary-or-fraud-david-fisher.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/chicago-streetscene-push-for-customer.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/chicago-streetscenes-frosted-arbor.html more amiable quirkiness at Logan Square landmark http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/forget-that-wuss-rudolph-chicago-santa.html co-designer of City Hall roof garden http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/herbert-dreiseitl-lecture-urban.html land swap deal goes before Community Development Commission today http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/st-boniface-saved.html also this week, Edward Windhorst, Brett Steele, and Juhani Pallasmaa and more - over 40 events still to come in April http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/its-architecture-week-thomas-gordon.html sorry about all the scaffolding http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/classic-car-rainy-day-at-marina-city.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/chicago-streetscene-stairway-in-box.html It's a dog life in the land of The Donald http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/trumptastic-riverwalk-now-open-down-all.html pocket park east of 155 N. Wacker scheduled to open this summer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-buck-gets-his-new-park-do-we-get.html exhibition in an Airstream here today and tomorrow http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/design-revolution-has-come-to.html plus Hales, Zines, bridges, Mallgrave, Pond - over 60 great April events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/frank-gehry-reiser-umemoto-mos.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/renewal-rises-up-from-soil-of.html Cloud Gate scultor Anish Kapoor takes on the London 2012 Olympics in a big - very big - way http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/yeah-its-all-good-clean-fun-until-thing.html April calendar 90 per cent complete - really. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/04/wacker-drive-and-marc-fones-tonight.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-streetscene-connors-park.html 1887 Astor Street home again up for sale http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/live-in-john-wellborn-roots-house-just.html Fred and Ginger go for a spin atop a River North parking garage http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/twisting-in-wind.html I've never seen a Sejima and Nishizawa building first-hand, but of course that doesn't stop me from talking about them http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/have-you-heard-one-about-sanaa-winning.html plans for the historic complex by the Urban Land Institute unveiled at community in alderman Pat Dowell's 3rd ward http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/natalie-moore-of-chicago-public-radio.html Ralph Johnson's push-button 235 West Van Buren adds a new spin to the problem of residential balconies. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/morse-code-tower.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-streetscenes-state-street-goose.html beautifully photographed film debuts at the Full Frame documentary film festival in Durham, North Carolina http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/louis-sullivan-struggle-for-american.html not mythical conceits, but actual, historic tunnels under the Thames and Chicago rivers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/tunnel-vision.html or, as we call it here, the slush equinox http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/its-spring-in-chicago.html Alice Rawsthorne, Kengo Kuma, David Hovey, Jr., Nina Gray among 20 events still to come in March http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/chemical-reaction-buy-design-and-ida-b.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-streetscenes-333-eagle-540-fins.html will team u with Archeworks to place design in parks http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/mas-studio-wins-architecture-for.html Chicago's way of celebrating St. Patrick's Day leaves other cities you-know-what with envy. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/return-of-emerald-city-chicago-dyes.html Watch for full report with a lot of great photos and video on Monday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/st-pat-chicago-green-river-preview.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-streetscene-contrasts.html over 30 events still to come http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/celebrating-oracle-of-aachen-riddle.html the City of Chicago has no money for the CTA, or the schools, but it's got $24 million for a connected developer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/welfare-queen.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/bruce-graham-dies-at-84.html latest exhibition on the great architect and engineer's latest work and thought http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/on-h-edge-on-danzer-cecil-balmonds.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/chicago-streetscene-la-peri.html reclusive model surfaces at CAF http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/calatrava-spire-it-comes-and-goes.html 15 events just in this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/03/weiler-whiting-witt-woodhouse-willis.html does the original still live? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-build-nakagin-capsule-tower-out.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/fleeing-rome-after-death-of-ranuccio.html What's nu at the JRTC http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/helmuts-pole.html exhibition at the Galvin Library through March 7th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/reception-tonight-at-iit-katsura.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/chicago-streetscene-contemplation.html Tokyo architect Sou Fujimoto channels LeCorbu through Escher http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/house-of-floating-angel.html Muti conducting of new critical edition "sounds simply splendid" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/atilla-postscript-phillip-gosset.html why didn't Louis Sullivan think of this? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/orkin-school-of-architectural-ornament.html the most fashionable Hun ever http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/gehrys-pritzker-stoned-and-decayed.html the Chicago Architctural Club's Chicago Prize competition, Mine the Gap, seeks ideas of what to do with the big hole left behind by the Chicago Spire http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/its-in-hole.html a steam shovel delicately separates the wheat from the chaff at the site of the new Ronald McDonald house http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/dainty-fingers.html plus Katherine Darnstady, Ladia Lemoine Andre, Andy Warfel, Mark Taylor - and some more players to be named later http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-ronan-jon-langford-among.html Could they be pondering what we've done with the place? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/even-on-their-day-presidents-looking.html at the Gene Siskel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/first-chicago-showing-of-louis-sullivan.html a skeletal walkway returns http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/please-tread-on-me.html the death of a sacred space captured in a series of remarkable photographs by Susanne Schnell http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/holy-souls-end.html Lee Bey's Chicago takes on the 1892 Yale Apartments http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/lee-bey-has-new-blog-its-good-dammit.html two more additions to the February calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/fix-on-conserving-outdoor-sculpture.html Commerce sticking to Kingsbury http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/juliet-to-return-to-michigan-ave.html plus community meeting of U of C Laboratory School expansion plans. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/quiet-war-architecture-and-digital-plus.html additions to the February calendar. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/frank-lloyd-wright-still-dead-marian.html another competition from Evanston's ICARCH Gallery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/construction-for-construction-design.html letting in the human factor http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/animating-architecture-burnham.html Can sustainability distract from a multitude of sins? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/twirling-rotini-and-green-indulgences.html $135 million investment declared a loss. Recalling Santiago Calatrava's original poetic vision http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/chicago-streetscene-angel-with-blue.html from architects in love to good taste and reckless process, and everything in between http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-is-in-air-plus-pond-fresh-sos-and.html waging battle by screwing your customers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/from-new-paradigm-to-old-style.html afternoon event at Martyrs' open to all ages http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/pechakucha-chicago-global-day-for-haiti.html and it didn't even take a competition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/scaffold-salvation-gsa-takes-beast-to.html February 26 deadline for submissions http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/beat-bob-stern-architecture-for.html William Lebaron Jenney: urban prankster? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/is-this-best-joke-in-chicago.html city-sponsored design competition winner to be prototyped in lower Manhattan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/scaffolds-slum-up-chicago-streets-has.html it would probably look . . . something . . . like . . . this http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/if-frank-gehry-designed-stone-house.html and check out the Caravaggio- also gone after Sunday, January 24th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/konstantin-grcic-at-art-institute-great.html Art Institute open until 8 tonight, Thursday - free after 5 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/great-show-konstantin-grcic-at-aic.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/chicago-streetscene-leaning-towers-of.html two new events for January http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/wierzbowski-at-rdi-pecha-tonight-damon.html CTBUH releases survey of skyscrapers completed last year http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/chicago-has-two-of-five-worlds-tallest.html it'a a dog's life in the Moscow underground; plus: architecture and women's work http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/sunday-reading-moscows-35000-strays.html put down that self-financing, junior - you'll stunt your growth! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/cranes-no-chicago-business.html from Louis the S to Pablo the P and Chicago the R http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/chilly-nightscenes-of-winter.html A new Tokyo building is infusing structure with social media and merging architecture and technology in ways Mies could never have imagined http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/cracking-qr-code-reading-building-with.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/night-env.html shopping center design in Dubai http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/think-burj-khalafi-is-something-you.html if can't save buildings, can we make them collectibles? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/great-moments-in.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/chicago-streetscene-second-city-winter.html plus Kalmbach's Bertha Palmer, Chicago's Great Planning Disasters in just 45 minutes - check all all 40+ events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/malcolm-wells-edgar-miller-pridmores.html world's largest Tiffany Dome http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/01/debut-tonight-on-wttw-celebration-of.html rescuing Uncle Dan from the adulation of the centennial celebration of his 1909 Plan of Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/daniel-burnham-saved-from-drowning.html plus, cat with the x-ray eyes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/working-on-year-end-piece-so-heres-cat.html From Maracaibo to Cabrini Green, and everywhere in between http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-is-living-mas-contexts-winter.html Chicago - the new El Paso! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-after-christmas-chicago-no-5-on.html finally, here's our photos and video on Christmas in Chicago, plus links to all the great stories from years past http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-in-chicago-2009-in-photos-and.html photos and video, hopefully by Thursday - here's a preview http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-2009-were-working-on-it.html two fascinating websites and a striking new book on the architecture and sculpture you've probably glanced at countless times, but never have really seen http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/gregory-h.html the forgotten architecture of a great American city http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/david-steeles-buffalo-rediscovered.html Daniel Burnham documentary now also available on DVDx http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/make-no-little-plans-on-wttw-tonight-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/chicago-streetscene-industrial-sunset.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/chicago-streetscene-junk.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/chicago-streetscene-light-well.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/sayaka-shoji-empty-technique-or-real.html at the Music Box http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-red-shoes-must-have-items-only.html . . . you'd think it was winter or something http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/chicago-river-really-steamed.html can ZhuZhu Pets be far behind? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/nokia-dumps-deco.html plus, Urban Remains's Reese memorabilia http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/community-meeting-on-gropius-michael.html laughter in the park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/van-berkel-in-winter.html Yves Behar wreaths up through the 15th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/art-institute-lions-go-mod-for.html plus Lois Weisberg's Shaw, Mercer's veiled magic, more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/gang-nifty-valerio-gothic-three.html four buildings, including the splendid Kaplan Pavilion, could still be saved http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/after-bulldozers-roll-ihpa-votes-to.html Chase Community Giving competition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/vote-on-facebook-help-off-street-club.html a new book, and a virtual reality tour of the White City http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/this-weekend-edgar-miller-and-virtual.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/12/study-of-incised-triangles-with-pigeons.html a disturbing doppelganger emerges http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/unlovely-bones-big-jim-deslabbed.html half of them this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/burnham-tag-teams-gaudi-pecha-12-2.html show what you value in our area; there will be prizes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/december-1-deadline-to-submit-photos.html Bickford withdraws - new suitor on the horizon? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/three-arts-club-wont-see-dead-people.html plus, ax murder on State Street http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/amazing-archival-photos-of-marina-citys.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving.html where the French Directoire went to die http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/michigan-avenues-forgotten-secret-whats.html 1953 Power Plant latest to fall to wreckers- three down, five more to go http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/rally-today-at-noon-to-save-bauhaus.html the warm side of the City Beautiful http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/old-colony-comes-clean-on-dearborn.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/saturday-movie-near-perfect-six-minutes.html new documentary opens one-week run at Facets http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/julius-schulmans-visual-acoustics-gang.html three documentaries to screen tonight, November 19 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/shanghai-prosaic-and-delirious-reversed.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/chicago-streetscene-traditional-wedding.html gaze into my eyes and repeat after me: architecture matters, architecture matters, architecture matters, architecture matters . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/book-titles-have-we-run-out.html can Johnny Rocket's be far behind? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/amazing-hulk-to-vanish-mbc-in-line-to.html nature, boxed and unboxed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/printers-row-park-or-plaza-cherchez-le.html . . . on view daily until auction day http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/auction-of-architectural-books-from-pab.html . . . and the migrant workers who built it far too little? Two stunning videos. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/is-dubai-gods-way-of-telling-you-you.html plus Biomimicry in the Built Environment, Moholy-Nagy and more - additions to the November calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/edgar-miller-on-saturday-issacs.html a second childhood that won't end well http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/van-berkel-stripped-bare-by-her.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/bench-still-again-as-aerial-sculpture.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/chicago-nightscene-always-same-people.html Millennium Park's milk bottle gauntlet http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/longest-bench-in-world-versus-longest.html the upside of November http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/late-reprieve.html this whole architectural preservation thing is more complicated than we thought http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/fine-arts-cleans-up-cleans-out-artists.html .plus another first rate exhibition at the Columbia College Museum of Contemporary Photography - Reversed Images - meditations on contemporary Shanghai http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/global-architecture-brigades-caf-patron.html new store beneath the Louvre http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/first-jerry-lewis-now-steve-jobs.html . . . across 5,000 years. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/three-cats-sleeping-one-dog-dancing.html Burnham Pavlion makes quick exit from Millennium Park, rushes to the recycling bin. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/quick-exit-for-zaha-at-millennium-park.html Urban Habitat Chioago has assembled a great panel to discuss and debate Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago past versus future. (I'm the moderator, but there's beer.) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/tonight-one-night-only-at-schubas.html not hotel rooms, or condo's, but up to $10,000 per cubic foot http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/evicted-three-arts-club-members-get-to.html over 50 events on the November architectural calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/11/badelynge-of-critics-burnham-smackdown.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/halloween.html a final portrait of the Zaha and the Ben, closing Sunday night on the day of the dead http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/flaming-maples-bleached-pavilions.html the first Gropius building at Michael Reese falls http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/so-much-for-memory.html PLUS the Leonore #2 and Triple Concerto, on iTunes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/have-i-got-deal-for-you-beethoven-1-9.html better, or more of the same? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/glass-aloft-in-revised-designed-for.html on the Chase Promenade, and at a CAF lunchtime panel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-wednesday-building-burnham.html winners go on to Washington DC during National Engineers Week for finals http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/october-31-deadline-for-schools-to.html facade of Chicago's the Wit hotel repels water, rappels fund-raisers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/i-know-everyone-hates-waiting-for.html who knew, it's backlit! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/prudential2-punches-hole-in-night-sky.html includes striking new work by Farr Associates, Studio/Gang, and Brininstool and Lynch http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/walk-in-slots-still-available-for-this.html Arthur Penn and Ghislain Cloquet capture mid-60's Chicago in all its gritty glory http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/mickey-one-smoke-and-flame-at-marina.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/chicago-streetscene-lost-in-funhouse.html subway stair covered with functioning piano keys claims to cut escalator use by two thirds. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/go-play-on-stairs.html unboxing Carl http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/whats-black-and-white-and-jung-all-over.html razor sharp new 8K restoration screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, with star Martin Landau there to comment http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/on-its-50th-anniversary-hitchcocks.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/chicago-nightscene-rear-windows.html news notes from all over http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/bates-bad-granite-beasts-mythical-big.html quarterly journal a free download http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/more-mas-please-stylish-and-informative.html plus new exhibition, WORKac lecture at the Graham http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/foas-farshid-moussavi-acadia-09-lamda.html the world in running shorts passes by Marina City on the road to exhaustion http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/marathon.html fiddle sold separately http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/ancient-rome-david-rockwell-style-neros.html instead of abstractions, the actual experience of moving through architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/film-documents-architecture-in-new.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/chicago-streetscene-molten-sky.html slideshow of Hockney's iPhone art accompanies profile by Lawrence Weschler in the October 22 New York Review of Books http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/high-cultah-thursday-david-hockney.html thought-provoking and entertaining, it's at Chicago Tourism Center, but only through Sunday, October 11 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-big-its-bold-its-sometime-delirious.html plus ULI Chicago on the Hotel Market http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/burnham-swedenborg-borg-borg-epsteins.html over 75 fascinating events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/tall-buildings-palleroni-burnham-books.html the author revealed amidst a phalanx of the far more talented http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/pics-from-pecha-kucha.html votes to landmark Richard Nickel house http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/shocking-landmark-commission-shows-some.html If it works for Santa, why not for a garden? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/10/can-we-throw-in-easter-bunny-for-good.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/chicago-streetscene-water-tower-bride.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/vancouver-street-scene-now-thats.html presenters scheduled to include Dear, Gray, McClendon, VDT's Reynolds, Lynch, Wilkinson, Rubio, Uhlir, Lyster and, apologies in advance, me http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/pecha-kucha-architects-night-tuesday.html suo profumo è nell'aria http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/hyde-park-jazzfest-de-la-cernas-caravan.html loft studios were home to the Griffins and the Ianelli's, FLW stopped by for a while, too http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/monroe-building-undergoes-scalp-rehab.html loft studios were home to the Griffins and the Ianelli's, FLW stopped by for a while, too http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/monroe-building-undergoes-scalp-rehab.html slight of life director Mike Leigh's brilliant Victorian immersion in the world of G&S http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/hi-cultah-wednesday-one-of-great-films.html recently curated Block Museum's great show on Marion Mahony http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-curator-for-old-chicago.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/quoth-bird-on-flying-carpet-nevermore.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/chicago-streetscene-goes-lithographers.html nearly two dozen events just this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/arups-luebkeman-fresh-again-reversed.html making good recovery after surgery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/architect-artist-and-critic-ai-weiwei.html after nearly a century, journey into the dark night of Jung's soul to be published mid-October http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/forbidden-volume-story-of-jungs-red.html Kalmbach also offering Gold Coast tours September 25 and 26 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/sally-kambach-signs-copies-of-mrs.html friendless 1891 structure declared in danger of imminent collapse http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/burnham-root-luzon-building-in-tacoma.html nearing completion in Austin neighborhood http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/early-look-at-john-ronans-christ-king.html list also includes South Side Masonic Temple, ensemble of buildings in Lincoln Fullerton district http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/wright-dart-on-landmarks-illinois-2009.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/chicago-streetscene-our-hospitality.html Jane Jacobs firsts in Planetizen poll http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/richard-m-daley-77th-greatest-urban.html great report in current Crain's Chicago Business http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/massive-stroke-to-you-tragedy-to-us.html is postmodernism popping it's panels? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/thompson-center-straps-it-on.html Lee Bey talks with Burnham documentary director Judith McBrien after film showing at Harold Washington Library this Tuesday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-make-no-little-plans-showings.html Blair Kamin picks up ChicagoCatholicNews report on compromise http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/st-boniface-towers-to-be-saved.html Reindeer that got stuck on Austin rooftop last December reduced to bare bones and cartilage http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/only-104-days-til-christmas.html bus to be driven by Patrick Ryan with substantial City Council oversight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/caf-offering-one-time-tour-of-olympic.html better or worse? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/vandalism-or-improvement-do-thompson.html Chailly's Mahler 10th: bang the drum softer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/carmine-said-one-thwack-here-are-three.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/blimp.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/fireboat.html new exhibition, Actions: What You Can Do With the City, opens in October http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/sept-15-deadline-for-shaking-down.html 215 West Washington and environs, by Bob Johnson http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/is-it-just-me-or-does-this-perspective.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/chicago-streetscene-les-amants-du-pont.html plus 2 new exhibitions on Prairie Avenue, Architectural Jazz Night, SteelDay 2009 in Millennium Park - and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/david-millerhull-partnership-tonight.html opera of 1,000 will cost $180,000,000 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/turandot-unlikey-to-lay-egg-at-birds.html Millennium Park's tall tree forest http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/urbs-in-silva.html acai juice futures soar on the CME http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-just-in-oprah-dyes-chicago-river.html at the Chicago Visitor's Center, 72 East Randolph http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/daniel-burnham-turns-163-big-bold.html via OperaChic http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/garanca-bound-barefoot-and-dangerous.html Judith McBrien's Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City premieres under the stars on a perfect September evening http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/late-summers-night-dream.html sites in Atlanta, Birmingham, Selma and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/september-8th-deadline-for-registering.html In other news, Avenue H shuts down for a week for Carrot Top parade http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/oprah-to-shut-down-michigan-avenue-for.html includes video interview, overview of work http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/09/business-week-spotlights-jeanne-gang-as.html 60 plus events - and counting - on September calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/burnham-plan-unity-temple-at-100-bold.html Monday, August 31st marks end of remarkable 35 year run http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/champagne-toast-to-prairie-avenue.html includes design documents both from original design and proposals for the 1995 rehab http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/goldbergs-marina-city-only-through.html finds most of it fundamentally sound; Olympic Village part, not so much http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/civic-federation-releases-analysis-of.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/outward-bound.html alternative plan actually improves on previous official versions http://lynnbecker.com//repeat/reese/landmarks_illinois_plan_preserves_gropius_Chicago_legacy.htm Papilionoidean version of "almost nothing" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/that-greta-oto-shes-sooooooo.html Debussy over Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/nuages.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/chicago-streetscene-hidden-flowers.html The Legend of Bagger 288 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-did-worlds-largest-digging-machine.html on Irving Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/devolution.html bringing the van Berkel/UNStudio Burnham Pavilion back to its original luster http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-there-anything-better-than-watching.html specifies reuse plans for six essential buildings http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/landmarks-illinois-releases-alternative.html Edward Keegan curates, at the Chicago Tourism Center http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/big-bold-visionary-opens-94-chicago.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/paris-streetscene-what-knockers.html masterful lighting by Tracey Dear creates magic in Millennium Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/kindness-of-night-becomes-them-zahas.html often a half dozen events added http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/adrian-smith-soars-critical-meeting-on.html proposed site of Athletes Village for 2016 Olypics becoming toxic sinkhole of civic vandalism and unchecked spending http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/landmarks-commission-follows-script.html 12:45 pm meeting, Thursday, August 6 at City Hall, open to the public, with supporters of Michael Reese encouraged to attend and speak out http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-landmarks-commission-irrelevant.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/chicago-streetscene-nightwatch.html Mayor Daley's answer to his father's famous question http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/civic-nihilism-this-is-your-olympics.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/chicago-streetscene-linen-and-debris.html from Willies to Burnham and Beyond to kayaks and cocktails and more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/august-calendar-not-as-quiet-as-it.html luxury hotels designed with all the charm of an SRO http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-hotels-more-mediocrity-to-descend.html with a lethal security system http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/little-blue-ihop-on-medical-district.html the conch dwellers' labors http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/zahas-burnham-pavilion-starting-to-look.html sacred spaces just aren't what they used to be http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/aching-at-temples-malls-r-us-at-facets.html and yes, we're slumming for still another day, but, hey, it's summer . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/when-mantis-gets-sunburn-and-really.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/chicago-streetscene-golden-warehouse.html the unending gestation of DuSable park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-told-you-we-should-have-gotten.html live recording of 2007 revival of new opera released by EMI http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/thomas-ades-tempest-now-on-record.html Watch your step. Seriously. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/are-you-awake-now-not-so-stupid.html and the all Remy orchestra http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/arcchicagoplus-summer-day-rattus.html 27th stories, lots of ornament, 48 foot wide floors - a perfect fixer-upper for the deep pocketed http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/rapp-rapps-203-n-wabash-needs-friend.html and we all know how painful that can be http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/zahas-crab-excreting-its-soft-shell.html public invited to meeting unveiling demolition plans for Reese campus at Olivet Baptist Church tonight http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/tonight-mayor-richard-m-daleys-scorched.html here's hoping Chicago and Michigan facility is soon up and running again http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/wow-if-only-city-always-moved-this-fast.html Thursday guided tours will also include such locales as the Downtown Islamic Center, Middwest Buddhist Temple, and Harry Weese's Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/sacred-spaces-summer-tours-get-high-at.html Will Chicago's rich legacy of Walter Gropius Bauhaus architecture be wiped off the map? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/michael-reese-demolition-plans-to-be.html more cash needs to be shoveled to JCDecaux http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/wtf-overnight-newsstand-disappears-from.html a small gem at the DePaul University Art Museum http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/in-praise-of-little-comparitively.html . . . and break things for educational purposes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-saturday-how-to-make-really-big.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/chicago-streetscene-353-north-clark.html Hargreave Associates design offers variety of levels, textures http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/streetervilles-parkview-park-continues.html over a dozen events this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/daniel-burnhamjane-adamsst-vincent.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/chicago-streetscene-constructed-sky.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/chicago-streetscene-voyagers.html now that all decisions are made, designs are finally released to public http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/david-woodhouse-wins-burnham-memorial.html a great ensemble of photo's set in Renzo's Modern Wing http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/edward-lifsons-wedding-party-piano.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/chicago-streetscenes-bad-and-beautiful.html over three dozen great events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-6th-of-month-time-for-july-calendar.html a different, eye-witness take on WFMT's history and current state http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/last-great-oak-falls-response-from.html at WFMT, created one of the golden eras in Chicago cultural history http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/last-great-oak-falls-norm-pellegrini-is.html 10 photographers and artists take on the idea of Burnham in visually amazing ways http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/last-two-days-for-great-edge-of-intent.html the day the plan was originally released in 1909 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/07/burnham-4th-new-edition-of-1909-plan.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/chicago-streetscene-phantom-of-opera.html ready for more Bob Stern? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/not-pritzker-perfect-but-new-south-loop.html your ad here http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/trash-buckingham-fountain-just-eight.html Taste or taste - a votre guise http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/manny-renzo-leg-and-wing.html presentation featuring JAM's Jerry Mickelson and Friends of the Uptown Andy Pierce at CAF next Wednesday; fountain tour today and future Friday's http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-uptown-theaters-past-and-future-plus.html Where's Waldo - with architecture! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/david-woodhouses-disappearing-act-at.html plus The Earrings of Madame de . . . and Terrence Davies' Of Time and the City http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/rare-showing-lola-montes-gene-siskel.html Bambrilla and studio Crush develop spectacular alternative to weather report screen http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/great-advances-in-elevator-design-hell.html The strange ways TIF's distort Chicago development http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/park-for-people-no-way-park-for-office.html a photo-essay with videos of the architects describing the origins of their designs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/zahas-web-bens-incredible-ice-cream.html still more additions to the June calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/ellingsen-tonight-cans-and-bricks-this.html The Really Large Glass http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/grainy-video-from-last-thursdays.html at Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/saic-student-show-making-modern-opening.html reinforcing your library floor to support the weight of your purchases not included http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/spend-50-bucks-minimum-get-half-off-on.html or at least uncanopied http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/van-berkel-pavilion-unveiled.html first siting of the metal skeleton for delayed Burnham Pavilion in Millennium Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/zaha-has-landed.html architecture after the fall, the work, thought and relevance of Cecil Balmond, and the Indian Rope Trick, all copiously illustrated with images and videos http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/cecil-balmond-and-bonfire-of-vanities.html music, food, and art, plus 35 area galleries open til 10:00 tonight, Friday, June 12th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/reminder-preservation-chicago-pilsen.html great moments in architectural discourse http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/mr-kamin-protests-mr-becker-apologizes.html what to do now? bring out your dead! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/got-12-cents-square-foot-take-our-post.html tea, snacks, a little wine, great music from players heavily drawn from the CSO and Lyric: what's not to like? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/recover-from-your-workday-in-just-one.html Jim Tichy and students from IIT, SAIC, and the Bauhaus Labs offer up Lighting Crown Hall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/thursday-one-night-only-eine-kleine.html Sam Zell action figure sold separately http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/rabble-overtakes-trib-tower-aerie-with.html fantasy made concrete by reiser and umemoto http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/dubais-giant-vegetable-grater-becomes.html Aqua hotel saved from drowning by saavy investor http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/no-room-for-inn-mondrian-stateless.html at the Chicago Cultural Center, Thursday, June 4 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/great-show-and-great-storyteller-tim.html approaches parallel but different from Studio Gang and Jerónimo Junquera-Liliana Obal, http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/balconies-and-eaves-laurel-and-hardy-in.html birth and death in the big city http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/06/childrens-rises-time-falls.html plus Gropius in Chicago, Denison, Kerbis, Muchin College Prep and much more http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/pecha-kucha-9-woodhouse-preservation.html Friday, May 29th event at Chicago Cultural Center features 5:30 p.m. curator talk by Chicago Cultural Historian Tim Samuelson http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/opening-reception-tonight-cartoons-of.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/chicago-spire-still-dead.html after half a century emtombed, entrance columns again see light of day http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-old-colony-had-good-dare-we-hope-it.html Edge of Intent best Burnham related show so far http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/never-too-late-for-more-burnham-two.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/memorial-day.html reconstitutes with breath and spit http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/concrete-heal-thyself.html it's a homely pug. how can it be so essential? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/little-murders-on-mies-modernism-alley.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/chicago-streetscene-when-renzo-met.html 800 foot+ tower moves towards fall opening as it redefines landmark Michigan Avenue Streetwall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/legacy-at-millennium-park-true-mostly.html buildings by Gropius, Reginald Isaacs, and Loebl Schlossman and Bennett, along with beautiful parks by Hideo Sasaki all to be obliterated without a trace, perhaps as early as July, in Chicago's plan for 2016 Olympics athletes village http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/sunday-tour-confirms-important-of.html at today's ribbon cutting ceremony http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/renzo-piano-talks-about-his-modern-wing.html escape the Modern Wing crowds at two great exhibitions that you have only a couple more days to see http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/newhouse-behnisch-two-great.html and a Sunday tour gives an idea of the damage that might be done http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/two-more-olympic-events-for-may-tonight.html in the world's worst shot video, plus the Art Institute's newest, shortest lived installation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/joe-rosa-talks-about-a-galleries-in.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/chicago-streetscene-composition-1.html how far can it come back? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/old-colony-emerges-from-gloom.html plus Competiting Narratives on Public Housing and Unbuilt Projects and Fantasy Architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/fibonnaci-public-housing-burnham.html Chicago architecture: in the news! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/modern-takes-wing-owpp-gets-cannonized.html works by van Berkel and Zaha Hadid to debut June 19th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/van-berkel-burnham-pavilion-rising-in.html historic Rosenwald Apartments still awaiting buyer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/tonight-friends-of-rosenwald-at-spertus.html better . . . or worse? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/ad-creep-at-old-bus-shelter.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/chicago-streetscene-flowers-that-bloom.html Pellli Clarke Pelli building comes not to bury the children, but to let them bask in the sun http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/bunker.html plus Burnham . . . Burnham . . . Burnham . . . Bueller . . . Bueller . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/05/great-chicago-places-burnhamx-baker.html at the Chicago Architecture Foundation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/boom-lingers-few-days-longer.html part of all-day job expo for people 13 and up http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/cool-jobs-at-msi-larry-novak-talks-burj.html in conjunction with Artropolis/Art Chicago at the Mart http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/balmonds-solid-void-adds-hours-this.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/chicago-streetscene-snake-pit.html millions needed for critical repairs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/frank-lloyd-wrights-unity-temple-among.html 6:00 p.m., Fullerton Hall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/will-it-never-end-one-more-event-doug.html an angry pianist versus an out of control DHS http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/whos-crazy-one.html a double-header this week at the Chicago Architecture Foundation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/towns-go-boom-for-good-may-1st-becker.html Even as a young scholar reveals new information about the involvement of Walter Groupius in their design, every last one of the dozens of Bauhaus-inspired buildings on Michael Reese Hospital campus stand poised to be bulldozed for the yet-to-be-awarded 2016 Olympics http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/expulsion-chicago-set-to-destroy.html urban flora http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/metal-flowers-plastic-fronds-cast-iron.html And miles to go before the Red, And miles to go before the Red http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/walking-to-skokie-swift-on-sunny.html Hugh Pearman - I'm sorry: Squidgy - takes no prisoners in a small marvel of well-place invective http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/traditionalist-zombies-vs-modernist.html can we finally close the April calendar now? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/gropius-at-michael-reese-earth-day-at.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/chicago-streetscene-gnawer.html scar on the riverfront finally begins to disappear http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/trump-riverwalk-begins-to-take-shape.html Drummond Place http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/pretty-maidens-slightly-weird-all-in.html what would the newest Pritzker Prize winner have to say about Daniel Burnham's city and legacy? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/if-zumthor-came-to-chicago.html coming up this week: Monica Ponce de Leon, Ben van Berkel, Stanley Tigerman on the Illinois Holocaust Museum, Tom Leader, Eric Lloyd Wright, and a preview of the National Public Housing Museum http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/restoring-parthenon-uli-chicago-panel.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/when-relationships-between-sculptures.html designs revealed for pavilions commemorating 100th anniversary of Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/innie-and-outtie-zaha-and-van-berkel-in.html is it possible to have too much sparkly brick paving? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/buckingham-fountain-re-opens-gravel.html what's tall, flame colored and Miesian? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/big-red-is-back.html also this week: Daniel H. Burnham meets Vincent de Paul http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/me-on-monday-plus-zaha-van-berkel.html AIA refuges to disclose three finalist designs in competition for a memorial to Daniel Burnham http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/burnham-bizarro.html the aura of the angled plywood http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/ancient-mystery-at-ama-pyramids-appear.html over $13 billion in transportation projects in center city goody bag http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/revised-central-area-action-plan-seeks.html first movement free, $1.98 total for one of the most distinctive works in American contemporary music http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/04/itunes-offers-free-john-cage-433.html One Museum Park vs. Edgar the cat http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/this-is-learning-from-vancouver.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/chicago-streetscene-getting-account.html log-jam of 70 events includes plague of Beckers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/tigerman-wright-gropius-van-berkel-maas.html bring your galoshes http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/its-spring-in-chicago.html Does a proposed memorial to architect and planner Daniel Burnham represent an overdue tribute or a colossal failure of nerve? Should 2009 be the year to finally begin realizing Burnham's vision for a grand gateway to Chicago's lakefront? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/symbol-vs-substance-chicagos-memorial.html April 2nd auction of architect's artwork to benefit IIT's Graham Resource Center http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/own-your-calatrava-krueck-gang-summers.html . . . at 11:30 a.m., March 28th, at Loyola University Museum of Art http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-transsolarbehnisch-exhibition-opens.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/chicago-streetscene-sea-of-glass.html JSAH in 3-D, The National Public Museum, free space at the Spertus, and drawn modernism extended http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/chicago-architecture-news-3242009.html As if Paul Golberger at Unity Temple and Larry Beasley on Abu Dhabi at CAF weren't enough - four more events added to waning days of March calendar http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/yikes-venice-biennale-2016-and.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/street-theater.html followed by 40 days teasing sun and biting cold, and summer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/forget-st-patrick-its-spring.html did I mention it sucks? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-be-sick-2009-edition.html or, how a new nickname may be the best reaction to the renaming of a Chicago icon on the cheap after a firm that's leasing only 3.5% of the building's space at a miserly $14.50 a square foot. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/introducing-wee-willie.html alternate programming: I give a gallery talk at CAF at 11:00 a.m. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/dont-drink-green-river-chicago.html Kristen Schaffer unveils the beliefs that shaped Daniel Burnham's world view, at the Art Institute, Thursday, March 12, 6:00 p.m. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/borg-borg-borg-swedenborgian-revelation.html two scoops of double basses for Frere Jacques http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/once-more-into-woods-haitinks-cso.html Is It Good for You? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/architectural-calendar-goes-postal-is.html new Serta Headquarters featured http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/andrew-metter-in-focus.html Berlin now videostreaming concerts live http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/do-you-like-to-watch-bpo-says-come.html a computer case as the sincerest form of flattery http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/burj-due-volte-separated-at-birth.html Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan, Dan Dan . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/old-dan-burnham-just-cant-get-enough.html lunchtime lecture will cover Staybridge, 161 Kinzie, 1401 South State http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/joe-valerio-at-night-and-at-caf-today.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/girl-who-cried.html over 60 events clamoring for your attention http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/03/bucky-pecha-kucha-valerio-garofalo-mies.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/chicago-streetscene-piranesi-on-adams.html Denis McNamara lectures on Catholic Church Architecture in Chicago in the rescued Christ the King, formerly St. Gelasius, on Woodlawn http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-saturday-in-landmark-archdiocese.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/chicago-streetscene-medusa.html returning a page of history on Lake Street http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/march-from-scaffold-continues-on-state.html expatriate artist strives to liberate stone from architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/anselm-franke-on-jimmie-durham-at.html Water Project envisions a saner deployment of precious natural resources http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/theres-gold-in-that-there-h20.html seats still available for 6:00 P.M., Tuesday, February 17th presentation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/john-zukowsky-on-architecture-and-air.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/presidents-day-full-house.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/chicago-streetscene-web.html Lakeside vanishes, Prentice re-emerges http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/out-of-rubble-bertrand-goldberg-gem.html words and pictures by Vince Michael http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/essential-chicago-blogs-time-tells.html Monday, February 16th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/tc-boyle-frank-lloyd-wright-and-women.html three years and yer-out! for Boul Mich museum http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/freedom-proves-fleeting.html over 40 events, several already full up or sold out http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/angelil-goff-mies-bruegmann-zukowsky.html yes, we're STILL working on the February calendar, so here are some great events Tuesday and Wednesday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/somol-arup-and-modern-wing-montgomery.html while Chicago struggles to create affordable housing, the Rosenwald is left to rot http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/02/rosenwald-apartments-on-block-again.html will city appeal to Illinois Supreme Court? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/buzzards-begin-to-circle-as-chicago.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-streetscene-lady-daley-in.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-nighscene-river-on-ice.html where commuters get to play "guess the strangely colored liquid" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-olympic-city-that-so-loves-its.html announcement of Chicago's 7 most endangered historic places for 2009 open to the public http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/preservation-chicago-unveils-chicago-7.html NoMA Square 73: not your mother's DC stonepile http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/transparency-comes-to-washington-via.html can a rotten economy lead to more interesting retail streets? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/out-of-adversity-diversity-lifting.html intends to obliterate century old West Town landmark starting Friday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/archidiocese-to-st-boniface-die-die-die.html for a country dedicated to new beginnings, hope again rises, the long battle beckons http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/and-now-it-begins.html an uncertain road ahead and a shared optimism http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/mutiobama-chicagos-dynamic-duo-of-hope.html 7th and 8th graders visions of bold new worlds to be on display at UIC http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/future-city-chicago-finals-next.html How do you liven up what should be one of Chicago's great public places? And what about the moose? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/wood-goths-invade-pioneer-court-get.html brother, can you spare some tinsel? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-streetscene-end-of-holiday-road.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-streetscene-capitals.html a scholar's treasure trove of history and images http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-and-its-architecture-through.html new reports quantity effects of downturn, new grant supports Hyde Park preservation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/bad-news-for-architects-good-news-from.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/chicago-streetscenes-two-views-of-gehry.html over three dozen items on the January calendar of Chicago architectural events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2009/01/ohare-farnsworth-tiffany-lautner-power.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/chicago-streetscene-wrigley-hockey.html A rare opportunity revisit the Leonard Bernstein musical that created a sensation at the midpoint of the 20th century in all its original glory, in a 70mm now showing at the Music Box http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/time-regained-west-side-story-in-70mm.html is there a larger purpose to continuing harassment of Marina City Online website? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-condo-board-sabotaging-marina-city.html and who is that Godzilla-like cat? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-do-you-fit-sears-tower-under.html This year's photoessay. Have a great holiday, and see you after the 25th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-in-chicago-2008.html Kubrick and Hitchcock as architectural design consultants http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/jeanne-gangs-cinematic-space-at.html construction comes and goes, but hype is forever http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/selling-calatravas-chicago-spire-no.html is a talented young American architect's ego really more bloated than Vince Vaughan after Thanksgiving dinner? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/lunatics-we-love-prince-ramus-lost-in.html from Froebel to Lincoln Logs, and Ferris Wheels http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/architectural-toys-at-architech-gallery.html from Ebay to John McCain, everybody wants to get into the act. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/blagomania-reaches-milan-by-way-of.html The buillding boom is finished; winners declared. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/trump-and-aqua-at-large-and-in-detail.html The Tribune declares bankruptcy. Sam Zell is shocked. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/coal-in-stocking.html What do a new town in Korea, hog high-rises in the Netherlands and John Cleese have in common? Well, nothing, really, now that you mention it. To my analyst, maybe . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/mvrdv-coneheads-of-gwanggyo-hog-butcher.html AIA Chicago and AIA Gold Medal award winners announced http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/brandt-destefano-murcutt-cited-by-aia.html D.C's $600 million burrow http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/bunker.html It was one of Chicago's great institutions. Now it's just in the way. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/12/decline-and-fall.html over 3 dozen events on December Calendar, almost half the first week of the month http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/sleigh-rides-on-prairie-avenue.html A life of 90 years; a building for the ages http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/jrn-utzons-journey.html really big trees, balloons, and Chicago in Christmas in array http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-post.html What do Balanchine, Bejart, Morris and CCTV have in common? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/ole-scheerens-nutcracker-death-match.html 50 story building stands to make Washington Block look like a Monopoly game piece http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/truss-on-stick.html is the glass half full or just really, really dark? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/600-north-lake-shore-drive-opposing.html My guest-curated exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, contrasting the work of Chicago architects in boom town Chicago of the 19th century and today's boom towns in Asia and the Middle East, closes Friday afternoon, November 21st http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/only-through-friday-to-see-boom-towns.html an in-depth three-day conference, and a famefest for the environmentally aware http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-week-urban-waterfronts-conference.html a troubled storehouse of historic architecture; a sparkling new storehouse for modern art http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/weekend-reading-ouroussoff-buffaloed.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/chicago-streetscene-halsted-street.html tvs and student architects form winning teams http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/union-station-2020-lifestyle-building.html so says Ada Louise Huxtable: she is talking about New York, isn't she? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/he-thinks-development-is-planning.html This week ONLY - a once in a lifetime opportunity to spend time with two of the greatest femme fatales in the history of the dramatic arts http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/lola-lulu-chicago.html the rebirth of hope, reflected in the beauty of a dying art form http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-x-world-x-208.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/election-day.html gather ye rosebuds while ye may http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/oh-humanities-pran-mau-jacob-allen.html includes Jeanne Gang and Lee Bey http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/plan-of-chicago100-chf-panel-noon-today.html Studs Terkel: 1912-2008 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/11/take-it-easy-but-take-it.html relates story of Frank Lloyd Wright's last surviving hotel, from 1910 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/last-wright-flw-in-mason-city.html $3.8 Terminal 3 at Beijing Airport opened in May http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chris-abel-on-foster-in-china-friday.html sidewalks liberated http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/ding-dong-scaffolds-gone.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicago-streetscene-millennium-park.html An architectural mystery story: No Louis harmed in the actual course of this Production http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/ornament-removed-from-building.html Ripped from yesterday's headlines! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/night-frank-lloyd-wright-spent-in.html WBEZ film critic Jonathan Miller serves as tour guide - with an expressload of clips - at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 5:30 P.M., Wednesday, October 22nd http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/tonight-one-night-only-rare-chance-to.html The GSA's sad neglect of the Holabird and Roche's once-proud 1916 Century Building, at 202 S. State http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/uncle-sam-state-street-slumlord.html but, really, what's $11.3 million between friends? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/santiago-calatrava-to-chicago-spire.html and not a moment too soon . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/deconstructing-55-east-monroe.html on the loss of L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/diane-keaton-architecture-critic.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicago-nightscene-barnacles.html a fire, a beauty, and pounding thighs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/and-to-think-i-saw-it-all-on-state.html who needs shop windows on State Street? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/macys-dances-on-marshall-fields-grave.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicago-streetscene-view-from-bridal.html and an acropolis with a Jewel/Osco http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chocolate-park.html North Pier depopulates http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/destefano-gets-mies-fever.html a building that spurred a new River North Landmark District probably won't survive its creation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/sacrificial-acorn.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/chicago-streetscene-throne-of.html details unveiled - and questions raised - on the ambitious 100th Anniversary Celebration for Daniel Burnham's landmark 1909 Plan of Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/10/burnham-plan-amania-architecture-lost.html the newspaper as the Chesire Cat, fading away to a smile http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-chicago-tribune.html check it all out here http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/shanghai-abu-dhabi-sobek-baker-bemen.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/chicago-streetscene-laughter-in.html Annual "Preservation Celebration" http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/preservation-chicago-parties-on-motor.html curator talks up next http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/boom-towns-opens-to-warm-reception.html Join me tonight, Tuesday, September 23rd, at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 South Michigan http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/boom-towns-opening-reception-tonight.html Pssst! wanna buy a few thousand wooden blocks? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/ties-that-no-longer-bind.html 3 tours offered at 1, 2 and 3 P.M., Sunday, September 21st http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/rare-opportunity-to-tour-saarinens-crow.html Master plan for Angola's Universidade Agostinho Neto and Haworth Headquarters in Holland (Michigan) both honored http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/ralph-johnson-has-good-wednesday.html Riccardo Chailly ailing; CSO Mahler 10 dead http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/mahler-10th-still-not-completed.html Look what I made! (or at least I helped) a new exhibition compares spectacular works from Chicago architects in 19th century Chicago and 21st century boom towns in Asia and the Middle East http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/join-me-next-tuesday-september-23rd-for.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/chicago-streetscene-mortal-remains.html Landmarks Commission considers Murphy and Naess modernist design from 1961 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/north-federal-savings-public-hearing.html November 7th deadline for proposals for historic West Town church shuttered since 1989 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/archdiocese-puts-st-boniface-out-for.html Orbert Davis Quintet to play in Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park masterwork http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/unity-temple-restoration-gala-saturday.html architect Joel Huffman creates installations in Archer Avenue parking garage performance space http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/architecture-dance-convergence-friday.html more appetizing than peche a la frog? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/trump-la-frog.html celebrates 50 years with big blow-out at Millennium Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/owp-goes-gold.html from Peter Eisenman to Sanford Kwinter to Robert Somol, Hadid's Nordpark and much more among dozens of events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/its-8th-of-month-must-be-time-for.html Mahler, Mozart, Shostahovich and Turnage streaming live and for next week on BBC3 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/csohaitink-at-london-proms-monday.html cooked up by Andrew Rebori and Loyola University http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/have-some-ribs.html Chicago's weirdest tower? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/caligari-cubism-on-sheridan-road.html two great lectures, and a reception for a new exhibition, both at IIT, Wednesday, September 3rd http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/brazilian-architecture-pearl-river.html why you should make time over the next three days to hear a blazing performance of Janacek's rarely performed opera http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/09/osud-again.html free showing of documentary at Kinetic Playground http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/83rd-birthday-party-for-uptown.html Chicago's Edgewater community takes on the blight of the urban underpass with two spectacular mosaic murals. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/this-is-your-underpass-this-is-your.html The strong world that lies beyond the giant revolving door http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/dead-mall-walking.html how to listen to two great concerts of the music of one of the 20th century's most distinctive composers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/5-days-left-to-meet-your-fate.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-streetscene-lets-just-hope-they.html I got your "amenity button", right here. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/at-calatravas-milwaukee-art-museum-its.html oral histories taken August 26-29 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-you-remember-68-democratic.html Topping out ceremony on Saturday http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/trump-at-1125-still-only-number-3.html Huffington Post begins Chicago edition http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/becker-goes-off-in-huffington-on-uncle.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-streetscene-lillies-of-pond.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/chicago-streetscene-goat-of-thrift.html a short history of the 1938 Gold Coast house http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/reborigoldberg-florsheim-mansion-opened.html how do we bring high-speed rail into Chicago's future? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/union-station-focus-of-chicago.html even in height of summer, dozens of events. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-august-11th-time-for-monthly.html developer seeks to demolish 1970's structure http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/walter-sobel-fell-company-stores-fate.html tear up your Sunday plans and head down to Crown Hall, 3360 S. State, sometime between 10 A.M and 3 P.M., Sunday, August 3rd http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/08/dont-miss-it-sunday-last-day-adler-and.html Retro/Prophetic sidles up to Marina City http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/car-of-tomorrow-yesterday.html Station president turns architect, details at 10 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/cbs2.html only 180 shopping days left http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/and-you-thought-those-early-back-to.html The Chicago Tribune's amazing disappering story on airline cost-cutting http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/big-airs-solvency-plan-gouge-rubes.html An important new work from England's leading composer http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/primo-prom-ades.html Gardens of rubble http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/va-doa.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/chicago-streetscene-popsicle-bride.html $500 vouchers versus $200k http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/friday-deadline-for-uli-community.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-streetscene-young-woman-with.html economic meltdown takes the role of serial skyscraper killer. where will he strike next? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/exquisite-corpses.html the Kinzie report http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/old-dark-antique-warehouse.html 84 concerts featuring the world's best musicians live and on delayed streams http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/proms.html radical streamline amazes spectators http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/cta-unveils-plan-to-quadruple-capacity.html late updates to the July calendar of architectural events http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/grant-park-updates-tonight.html Paul Goldberger plays straight man (he looks so happy: he hasn't heard about the Obama cover yet) http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/skycaper-colbert-report-uncovers-us.html sand,sun, water, sky, a book, an iPhone, and six hours of some of the best music ever written http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunday-at-beach-with-gustav.html . . . the Krause Music Store http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/louis-sullivans-last-testament.html noted Chicago architect died June 16th at age 88 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/walter-netsch-remembered-at-som-and-in.html . . . and how do you take your lakefront, madam: plain or promontory? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/whats-point.html yeah, we know, we haven't put up a July calendar, so here's a couple of key events for this week http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-week-archeworks-open-house-and.html in flags and architecture and blazing across the night sky http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/chicago-glorious-forth.html Crain's Chicago Business reports indicates interior design staffing will more than triple in deal http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/perkins-will-acquires-environments.html another shameless bit of biding time http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/four-tops-sequel.html You got a blue suit? Wear it http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/07/am-i-blue.html Lifson to USC, Nance ankles CST http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/tuesday-twofer-for-hes-serial-fellow.html why writers can't count http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/four-tops.html photo-essay by Edward Lifson shows you how it's done http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-make-lewitt-x-100.html Duke of Mantua: Eagle Scout http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/dont-ask.html has Sam Zell got a deal for you!! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/pssssst-hey-buddy-wanna-buy-trib-tower.html a dark Miesian citidal sticks it out http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-they-ever-finish-gene-simmons.html application to demolish Orange rated building on 90 day hold http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/preservation-chicago-protests-22nd.html what $1.3 billion might buy http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/great-greg-hinz-analysis-of-block-37.html and today, Sunday, June 22nd is your LAST CHANCE to see it among the other extraordinary Lego models at Brickworld 2008 in Wheeling http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/calatravas-chicago-spire-completed.html CANstruction awards first prize to fine-tuna-ed model http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/marina-city-in-cans-preserved-and-with.html seeks to reaffirm A. Montgomery Ward protections for Grant Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-streetscene-mclincoln.html seeks to reaffirm A. Montgomery Ward protections for Grant Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/see-you-in-court-save-grant-park-starts.html How Chicago firms fare on AIA's top 150 list http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/welcome-home-perkinswill-youre-no-1-in.html iconic Chicago architect designed University of Illinois "Circle" campus and U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/walter-netsch-dies-at-88.html Costs a lot of money, saves energy http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/shades-of-shigeru-curtain-wall-made-of.html . . . . when the palms return to Marina City . . . http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/summer-comes-to-city.html The forgotten glamour of the municipal garage http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/dead-parking-garages-tell-no-tales.html 2008, meet 1971 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/sixteen-who-stood-up-to-childrens.html will the courts be the next battleground? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/city-council-votes-on-childrens-museum.html a postcard evokes memories of a forgotten Chicago newspaper http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/time-regained-chicago-inter-ocean.html Lyric Opera, despite ad's claims, does not endorse move http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/will-chicago-childrens-museum-ever-stop.html Steven Spielberg announces post Harrison Ford sequel: Richard M. Daley and the Tomb of the Superstation http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/tales-from-crypt-city-to-bury-300.html Olive Oyl and Popeye http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/nichols-bares-its-feet-for-summer.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicago-streetscene-neon-memories.html nearly fifty events listed (so far - we're sure there'll be stragglers http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/06/pecha-kucha-kerwin-enquist-gang-sexton.html Chicago designers showcased at event at the Hotel Victor http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/sine-qua-non-streets-of-chicago-sunday.html NORML announces support for 2016 games in Chicago http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/woody-harrelson-olympic-stadium.html It's 12:30 A.M. I'm beginning to realize I'm not going to write anything today. So here's some pictures http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/thursday-photo-gallery.html A spectacular scale model of booming Shanghai is the big attraction at the world's largest (only?) museum of planning and development http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/caf-and-cpc-and-mpc-eat-your-heart-out.html Upgrades, restorations and misfires at Chicago's 1920's landmark hotel http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/palmer-house-facade-looking-good.html Eikongraphia's survey only place Lynn Becker will ever outrank Hugh Pearman http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/were-number-18.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicago-streetscene-memorial-day-2008.html Grand Movie Palaces saved: Chicago, three, Philadelphia, none http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/it-could-be-worse.html Jury to be headed by legendary John Massey, include international heavyweights Michel Bouvet, Shigeo Fukuda, Yossi Lemel and German Montalvo http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/daleys-nowhere-good-enough-for.html a Mansard roof's underwear http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/luciens-hanging-chads.html shilling for the Chicago Children's Museum's Grant Park land grab means never having to say how close you are to their payroll http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/zero-degrees-of-separation-in-childrens.html Pecha Kucha Chicago celebrates its first birthday, at Martyr's June 4th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/bob-and-denise-sneak-preview-at-pecha.html Philharmonie Rattled, not by conductor, but by scary blaze http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/acetylene-torches-menace-to-classic.html A shy groom, a radiant bride, King Lear and a disgruntled moose - just another Saturday on Michigan avenue http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/beauty-and-beasts-on-boul-mich.html Eliasson lurks http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-some-time-for-you-later.html A new book and a once-a-year tour takes you inside the great mansions http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/walk-through-time-prairie-avenue-from.html A graphic representation (and more proof, if any were needed, that I'm no art director), plus comments, pro and con http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/news-flash-plan-commission-approves.html As a serial seducer lurks nearby, Renzo Piano's Nichols Bridgeway clears its biggest hurdle http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/casting-pianos-nichols-across-road.html . . . but their new Executive Director is. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/preservation-chicago-announces-new.html issue to go to Chicago Plan Commission on Thursday, May 15th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/six-reasons-why-chicago-childrens.html thumbs up in Jack's critique http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/alternative-view-in-support-of-chicago.html rampapalooza in Grant Park http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/chicago-childrens-museum-spaghetti-bowl.html annals of marketing http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-make-silver-leed-gold-plus-last.html Royce A. Yeater sends letter to Arnold Randall http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/national-trust-midwest-opposes.html Habemus Papam! at the CSO http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/molto-muti-will-69-be-new-64.html add power-mad and embarrassments to their children to Mayor Daley's characterizations of opponents to the Chicago Children's Museum Grant Park land grab http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/05/buy-our-museum-or-and-well-bury-this.html Sunday last day to visit old friends before their excellent Texas adventure http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/impressionists-end-is-near-for-now.html The death of a historic Chicago company raises the stakes in protecting the great civic symbol it created http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/wrigley-company-is-dead-long-live.html The American Institute of Steel Construction brings an innovative engineering technique to Chicago. Valerio Dewalt Train sexes it up. http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/staggered-truss-not-as-painful-as-it.html the Flórez that bloom in the Spring, tra la http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/prince-of-high-cs.html renderings the CCM want to keep hidden, and a critique of Krueck and Sexton's design http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/jagged-icebergs-and-open-pit-brutalist.html a photo essay on the irresistible marriage of weddings and architecture http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/skyline-brides.html all in the good cause of dramatizing the Ten - strike that - Eleven most endangered places for 2008 http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/landmarks-illinois-redesigns-michigan.html the next thing you try when calling your opponents all racists doesn't work http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/04/mayor-daley-loves-children-to-hide.html radical rehab would revive spirit of Daniel Burnham http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/daley-center-in-line-for-250-million.html Can any building be as entertaining as this web site? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/alsops-delirious-islington-no-fries.html Alfonso Iannelli's vaudeville days and his stormy collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright on Midway Gardens http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/iannelli-and-wright-out-of-storeroom.html Thomas Edison: Energy Hog http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/03/kill-da-bulb.html http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/02/angel-of-peace-embraces-storm.html One of the year's top films has some of the most distinctive and affecting music in recent memory http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2008/01/were-not-in-marlboro-country-anymore.html website explores lesser known stories in city's history, photos in abundance http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/exploring-forgotten-chicago.html death brings author's forty-year-old 20,000 piece Lego construction out of the closet http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/norman-mailer-futurist-blockhead.html from the archive http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/short-brutal-life-of-parade-balloon.html Diuersions in Chicago TIF's threaten to eclipse undiverted revenues http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/half-billion-dollar-baby.html Plus, a spectacular 1965 film on the construction of Bertrand Goldberg's masterpiece http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/stop-taking-pictures-of-marina-city.html The mayor's personal piggy bank http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/11/chicagos-895-million-dollar-elephant-in.html thump - bump - clang - It's the updated Venturi Scott Brown website! http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/10/bob-and-denise-update-themselves.html Not Sn, but Ti for Gehry Museum's 10th http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/10/age-of-bilbao-ten-years-out.html Art Institute Nichols Bridgeway and Modern Wing both slated for mid-2008 completion http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/10/renzo-pianos-615-foot-long-extractor-er.html "the chosen site will benefit neither Grant Park nor the children who are the museum's reason for being." http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/chicagos-children-museum-fundamentally.html Why is the CCM so intent on hiding its proposed building? http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/really-bad-photos-of-renderings-chicago.html a photo-essay on the park Richard M. Daley wants to destroy http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/chicagochildrensmusuem/daleybicentennialplazanowhere.htm Suggests opponents of a 100,000 square foot Children's Museum in Grant Park hate minorities http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/daley-plays-race-card-on-ccm.html Epic canvas in Sunday Chicago Tribune http://arcchicago.blogspot.com/2006/12/picture-of-year-coronation-at-comer.html Bruce Mau says its about nothing less than the design of the world. The world may have other plans http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/massive/massive.htm 2,000 foot high tower packs on some pounds http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/calatravachicago/calatravachicago.htm George M. Harvey house destroyed by early morning blaze. http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/harveygone/harveygone.htm Base of House of Blues Hotel at iconic Bertrand Goldberg complex in Chicago being steeped in battleship gray http://lynnbecker.com/repeat/hobpaint/hobpaint.htm