Status Update: Renovating Wrigley
Our Gold Coast Spy e-mailed today with a photograph of the ongoing renovation of the magnificent and historic Wrigley Building (400 North Michigan Avenue) on the Near...
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Atrium Village Development to Reach for the Sky
Our friends over at FitzGerald Associates sent in a note earlier this week that the Atrium Village redevelopment they’re working on has received zoning approval...
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Video: Trump Tower Time Lapse
Here’s a little fun for your weekend. It’s a time-lapse video we made earlier this week of clouds around and reflected in the Trump International Hotel and...
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Video: 1930′s Chicago
I was doing some research into a missing public park in downtown Chicago when I stumbled across this video on YouTube. It’s a film made by a tourist named Noel...
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Chicago’s Lost Cathedral
The Great Chicago Fire erased many landmarks from the face of the Earth. One so thoroughly that even the venerable Encyclopedia of Chicago has nothing on it. Old Saint...
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Three New Landmarks in Downtown Chicago
Two well-known Chicago buildings, and one not-so-well-known building have been named City of Chicago landmarks. The venerable Wrigley building (400 North Michigan...
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Week Links: May 4, 2012
We haven’t heard much lately about the new hotel that’s going into the former One IBM Plaza building at 330 North Wabash Avenue. The last update we saw...
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Video: Turning Marina City Green
The quickest way to turn a marina green is to let the water stagnate. But it’s not stagnation, it’s progress that has one proposal turning Chicago’s...
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Slice of Life: Bughouse in the Fog
A foggy early spring morning, looking at the Chicago skyline from the Gold Coast. In the foreground you can see Bughouse Square, officially known as Washington Square...
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Ikram Wears Red
For a while we were following the construction of a new boutique complex for Chicago’s most influential fashion industry insider, Ikram Goldman. Then for some...
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Week Links: April 6, 2012
You may (or may not) have noticed that we didn’t post much last week. That was because we were on a photo shoot at a client’s building. Architectural...
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NFP: Marina City
We have a new building in our NFP series. NFP stands for New Favorite Photo, and this is our new favorite photo of Marina City (300 North State...
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Good Bye and Hello Ann Taylor
Our Gold Coast spy e-mailed a couple of photos to us today. They show Ann Taylor’s Michigan Avenue store at the corner of Michigan and Ontario (600 North...
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NFP: 300 North La Salle
We have a new building in our NFP series. NFP stands for New Favorite Photo, and this is our new favorite photo of 300 North La Salle. If you like it too, click here...
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Ugly Building Hides Immersive Art
If you want to experience the immersive serenity and visual inspiration of a frescoed grotto, you don’t have to travel all the way to Italy. You just have to...
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