Mark Your Calendar – Wolf Point About to Become a Reality
After decades of on-again, off-again plans both big and small, the latest grand plan for Chicago’s Wolf Point is about to go from pixels to...
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A Historic Look at the Changing Leaves on the Wells Street Bridge
The year-long project of replacing the Wells Street Bridge over the main branch of the Chicago River reaches another critical phase this weekend. The north leaf of the...
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Status Update: The Godfrey Chicago Hotel
What once was an abandoned, half-finished Staybridge Suites hotel in River North is rapidly becoming The Godfrey (127 West Huron Street), an upscale hotel with...
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Getting the Wolf Point: How the West Tower was Born
Last month in a much larger article about the fracas over Wolf Point, we published the following paragraph: The architect for the now-approved west tower...
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The Backstory on bKL – The Young Chicago Firm Leading the Pack on Wolf Point
In Chicago’s lexicon of TLA’s (three-letter acronyms), it’s not as commonly spoken as LSD, UIC, or ORD. But in architecture circles it may soon be as...
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Week Links – February 3 – February 9, 2013
Chicago is known for tearing down better buildings than other cities build. - Scott Rappe, AIA Chicago DNAInfo tells us that...
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Plan Commission Green Lights Wolf Point; Developer Ready to Go
As you heard here first (if you’re on our Twitter and Facebook feeds), Wolf Point is a virtual “go.” There are still some procedural hurdles and a...
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Status Update: The Clark and Grand Hotels
657 hotel rooms will come online in downtown Chicago, thanks to the project at North Clark Street and West Grand Street. Two surface parking lots and an old bank...
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Status Update: Hubbard Place
The new residential tower going up across the street from the East Bank Club continues to grow, and it has a better name. 360 West Hubbard became the Habitat Tower,...
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Wolf Point Pushed Into 2013. Developers Mess With Bull; Get the Horns
A pair of big shot real estate developers from Houston and the East Coast are learning a lesson about doing business in Chicago — Don’t underestimate a...
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Wolf Trapped – Point Plan Paused As Reilly Reams Real Estate Developers
The largest real estate development on the books in Chicago is now officially off the books, as 42nd ward Alderman Brendan Reilly asked the city’s planning...
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Reilly Rules Wolf Point Won’t Be Spayed By Howling Neighbors
The three skyscrapered mega-project due to sprout along the Chicago River late this year has been officially given the nod of approval from 42nd ward alderman Brendan...
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Will a Scrawnier Wolf Get Everyone on Point?
The current champion for largest and most controversial development in downtown Chicago (that actually has a chance of happening) is making its way through the approval...
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Stalled River North Skyscraper Starts Again, Saves Historic Firehouse
A stalled residential tower proposed for Chicago’s River North neighborhood is back on the drawing boards. The skyscraper at 212 West Illinois Street was approved...
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Week Links: October 20, 2012
Here are the active threads on the Chicago Architecture Forum for the week ending October 20, 2012. Why not stop by the forum and participate in the...
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