Bring in Da Bars, Push Out Da Funk

click images for larger view Once upon a time, not so very long ago, River North was skid row, full of derelict old buildings long past thei...

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A Triumphant Exhibition creates Time Machine to a Vanquished Architecture: Tim Samuelson's Mecca Flat Blues, at the Chicago Cultural Center

click images for larger view (recommended) Friday, February 21, The Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East Washington,  will be hosting an opening...

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(S)No(w) Mas!

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The anti-Pritzker? Wiel Arets Gets IIT into the Architecture Awards Game: $50,000 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize to be announced today

I think Mies was a great thinker and a master in scale. He was someone who under- stood that there has to be a distance between us and a bui...

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A Winter's Tale: Be Careful What you Wish For

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Blushing with Bling: Is This the Future of Bertrand Goldberg's Walton Gardens?

click images for full view I have no idea where it came from (if anyone has more information, please pass it on) but this afternoon the ever...

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The Kabbalah in Architecture, SOM's Timber Tower, Torrence Bridge, Lykoudis, Kyes, Richardson, Casinos, Mecca Flat Blues and much more - it's the February Calendar!

There are only 28 days in February this year, and they're crammed with nearly 40 great items on the February Calendar of Chicago Archit...

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