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Extruded Seashell on Southport

Extruded Seashell on Southport

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click images for larger view  “ People Spots ” are part of the Chicago Department of Transportation's “ Make Way for People ” program, d...
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Wim de Wit, Ilianna Kwaske, Placemaking, Emotions and Planning, Pop-ups, Pruitt-Igoe, and an Ancient Roman architect in a modern Japanese bathhouse - it's the August calendar!

Wim de Wit, Ilianna Kwaske, Placemaking, Emotions and Planning, Pop-ups, Pruitt-Igoe, and an Ancient Roman architect in a modern Japanese bathhouse - it's the August calendar!

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It takes more than those 60-degree dog days of summer to shut down Chicago.  We've got nearly thirty great items for you this month on t...
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1,600 Years of Sleeping with Strangers: The University Dormitory, from Ancient India to Future University of Chicago - Part One: Nalanda

1,600 Years of Sleeping with Strangers: The University Dormitory, from Ancient India to Future University of Chicago - Part One: Nalanda

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rendering: Studio/Gang Architects - click images for larger view  Last Tuesday, the University of Chicago unveiled its North Campus Residenc...
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Skate/Pinball/Astroturf/Text/Balloon/Blob/High Five Union Station - vote for your favorite Activate Union Station contest entry through July 31

Skate/Pinball/Astroturf/Text/Balloon/Blob/High Five Union Station - vote for your favorite Activate Union Station contest entry through July 31

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click images for larger view You have only until Wednesday, July 31st to cast your vote for the two winners of the Metropolitan Planning Cou...
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Dumped at the Side of the Highway: Father Marquette's Strange Monument

Dumped at the Side of the Highway: Father Marquette's Strange Monument

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click images for larger view The light was good yesterday so I went back to the abandoned Santa Fe Grain Elevator I wrote about a few days ...
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Chicago Under Construction: Earl Shapiro Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Chicago Under Construction: Earl Shapiro Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

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click images for larger view The Studio/Gang Campus North Residence Hall?  We're working on it.  So, for today, here's some late-aft...
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You Should See the Rest of Her! (Or: What's With all the Giant Heads?) Amanda Ross-Ho at MCA

You Should See the Rest of Her! (Or: What's With all the Giant Heads?) Amanda Ross-Ho at MCA

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click images for larger view First this was Indira Freitas Johnson 's Ten Thousand Ripples placing a hundred Buddha heads at locations ...
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The Power of Uselessness: The History - and Potential - of Chicago's massive Santa Fe Grain Elevator

The Power of Uselessness: The History - and Potential - of Chicago's massive Santa Fe Grain Elevator

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Sometimes something can be so spectacularly useless that it endures.  And in enduring, it begs to be re-invented. Such is the case with the ...
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