Northwestern’s Music Building Revealed
A few weeks ago, we took you inside the architecture firm Goettsch Partners (here and here). When we were there, we spied a model of Northwestern University’s...
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Briefly: Hotels, Coupons, and Skyscraper Ads
Sorry there wasn’t much in the way of updates last week. We were in the deep South on an architectural photography shoot. As we’ve flogged before,...
Read MoreNorthwestern Scales Back Streeterville Skyscraper Scheme
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which has been on a construction binge for much of the last decade, is moving ahead with plans for its newest skyscraper — a...
Read MorePrentice Womens’ Hospital Gets a Reprieve… For Now
Today, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks was supposed to discuss whether the embattled Prentice Womens’ Hospital (320 East Huron Street) is worthy of...
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The End is Near For a Beloved Chicago Hospital
You know how people like to look at old photographs of amazing buildings that have been demolished in fits of shortsightedness? Get your camera ready. It looks like...
Read MoreChicago Architecture History Hidden In Plain Sight
There are lots of reasons people avoid hospitals. Superstition. Fear of illness. Feeling guilty about one’s own state of health. But it should be...
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Slice of Life: Worst. Parking. Evar.
Remember those films from the 50′s and 60′s showing hordes of Chinese people flowing through their cities on armies if bicycles? Based on this photograph of...
Read MoreLast Chance To Dance: Lakefront VA Hospital Almost Gone
For the last eight months or so, demolition crews have been very methodically and very loudly disassembling the old VA hospital in the heart of Streeterville ....
Read MoreWhere Northwestern Started
Northwestern University spends a lot of time, money, and effort preserving its old buildings, and none is older than the one known as “Old College.” This...
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