Friday, November 4, 2016

Lee Bey on Television

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When a big architecture story breaks in Chicago, television stations often call for comment. So from this point on, I'll start posting l...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The Urban Observer revisits the Harold Washington Library in honor of the building's 25th birthday

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 For a quarter century, the Harold Washington Library has walked a tightrope of public opinion with updrafts of dislike from one side and ...
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Monday, October 17, 2016

Modernist building--the 'Pride' of the South Side--goes on sale

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Pride Cleaners, one of the city's finest and most exuberant examples of postwar modernism--and a good dry cleaners, to boot--is for sa...
Friday, December 4, 2015

In Chicago, an overlooked midcentury gem vanishes

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I saw and photographed this midcentury beauty during a quick weekend drive through Chicago's Northwest Side and adjacent suburbs back ...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

Interior design...with Soul: A look inside the former Ebony/Jet HQ Building

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The interiors of the former--and now vacant--Ebony/Jet Building at 820 S. Michigan continue to fascinate me. And I'm not alone. A Chic...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Aging Lakeside Center: Keep the building. Change the use

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  I spent a bit of yesterday morning at McCormick Place's Lakeside Center, architect Gene Summers' modernist beauty at 23rd and...
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

What's cookin' inside that old Schulze Bakery building?

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Good to hear long-stalled plans to redevelop the former Schulze Bakery are starting to move forward. The new venture promises to create ...
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