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Column: Former Fulton Market restaurant and Schlitz tavern is safe from...
A surviving Victorian building in Chicago’s rapidly developing Fulton Market district, originally a Schlitz tavern and later the home of the Italian restaurant La Luce, has been temporarily spared a...
View ArticleBest Chicago architecture of 2020: The design of St. Regis Chicago, a new...
Even as COVID-19 upended, and ended, lives, architecture raised our sights and spirits. Here are the year’s best projects from Chicago. 1. The St. Regis Chicago, the city’s third tallest building and...
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Chicago architecture in 2020: In a year like no other, anxiety soared about...
Ten days after the Great Chicago Fire destroyed 18,000 buildings and left about 90,000 people homeless, architect John M. Van Osdel set up shop in the Nixon Block, a downtown building that had escaped...
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Column: From the Great Fire to modernist houses to Jeanne Gang, a rich array...
Chicago isn’t just an architectural capital because of its great buildings. It’s a vital forum of ideas about what makes architecture great. A case in point: this year’s crop of recommended design...
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Column: 10 ways architecture may change Chicago in 2021, the Year of the...
Writing an architecture and urban design preview for 2021 is an exercise in guesswork. With vaccine distribution in its initial stages and city centers still largely shut down, firm opening dates are...
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Column: Chicagoans of the Year in architecture: The team that helped revive...
The rebirth of old Cook County Hospital, which once had a near-death experience, would have been worth celebrating in any year. But it took on special meaning in 2020, as doctors, nurses and other...
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Column: Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin reflects on 28 years of...
When I became the Tribune’s architecture critic in 1992, there was no Millennium Park, no Museum Campus and no downtown Riverwalk. Hulking public housing high-rises stood at Cabrini-Green. Sears Tower...
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Op-ed: My late parents’ Colonial home will be torn down, Blair Kamin writes....
Even after my mother died in July, nearly six years after my father passed away, their house was still there — a two-story, white-columned Colonial, with a Century House medallion displayed on its...
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Blair Kamin: This weekend’s 5K and marathon allow us to take in Chicago’s...
On Saturday, the day before the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, I’ll join thousands of other runners on a moving tour of Chicago’s built topography: the cliff of historical high-rises across from...
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Blair Kamin: How do we achieve equity-driven urban design in Chicago? The...
One of the great pleasures of my 28-year run as the Chicago Tribune’s architecture critic was seeing how wrong the artist of Millennium Park’s Crown Fountain got it. The artist, Spain’s Jaume Plensa,...
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