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Enter the Blob, Hammock on the Lawn - Activate Union Station, only through Monday 27 Aug 2013 | 08:06 pm
click images for larger view Chicago was built by the railroads, but Union Station is the last survivor among what was once six great rail terminals still in use, and we only have half of it. The gr...
And the Oscar Goes to . . . Divergent - Production Design: Walter Netsch and Helmut Jahn 27 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Get More: 2013 VMA, Artists.MTV, Music If you were watching the VMA awards this weekend, you probably saw this early trailer for the Shailene Woodley/Theo James/Miles Teller/Kate Winslet film Diverge...
Bell & Howell: Where Arts and Crafts meet International Style 26 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
click images for larger view It's still there, the Brown Line trains still speeding by. It's one of a number of old factories along Ravenswood Avenue and the Northwestern tracks on Chicago's North S...
(Better) Performing Seals find new home at Maggie Daley Park 23 Aug 2013 | 09:26 pm
click images for larger view It all ties into one of Richard M. Daley's patented 99-year privitization deals. In 2006, a consortium led by Morgan Stanley paid Chicago $563 million for a 99 year lease...
Molly Hunker awarded inaugural Doug Garofalo Fellowship, Benefit at the Graham August 27th 21 Aug 2013 | 06:56 pm
It's hard to imagine it's already been two years since we lost Doug Garofalo, one of Chicago's most talented young architects. For nearly a quarter century, Garofalo taught at the School of Architect...
Inside the Art Deco Chicago Motor Club: Has it finally Found a Future? 21 Aug 2013 | 01:15 am
click images for larger view Crain's Alby Gallun is reporting this afternoon that the long-empty 1928 Chicago Motor Club Building, designed by Holabird and Root, has been sold to MB Real Estate Serv....
Architectural Destruction as a Political Act: The Demolition at La Casita 20 Aug 2013 | 09:37 am
click images for larger view It was an impressive act of urban theater - the kind of “shock and awe” exercise usually deployed by an army of occupation. The focus of Saturday's blitzkrieg demolitio...
Ghost Church 19 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
click images for larger view The first thing you notice, from a distance, is the 90-foot-high bell tower. Where you're expecting a pitched roof, a skylight has been inserted. And then, if you walk ...
Snarckitecture added, Studio/Gang back at Expo Chicago for 2013 16 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but summer's ebbing away. We're only about a month away from this year's edition of Expo Chicago, the big arts show, featuring 120 international galleries, th...
Cloudy Day Chicago Skyline 16 Aug 2013 | 07:44 pm
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