Blair Kamin – Page 11

The Booth Cottage, a very modest, originally temporary one-story house by Frank Lloyd Wright at 239 Franklin Street in Glencoe.

Column: A win for Frank Lloyd Wright fans: In Glencoe, a threatened cottage by the great architect will be moved to a park

January 24, 2020 at 4:33 p.m.

Here's good news for everybody who loves architecture: Instead of being smashed to bits to make way for yet another megahouse, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage in Glencoe will be...

A sign notes an elevator out of service in the Pedway on Jan. 21, 2020.

Chicago’s Pedway is a confusing underground labyrinth. But help is on the way.

January 23, 2020 at 7:39 a.m.

It was just another frustrating morning in the Pedway Tuesday. Emerging from the CTA's Red Line station at Lake Street, I came upon a door leading to the Pedway beneath...

Helmut Jahn's controversial Thompson Center.

Column: A piñata version of the Thompson Center is coming, but don’t expect candy to fall out

January 18, 2020 at 9:04 a.m.

The James R. Thompson Center is both a landmark of postmodern architecture and an architectural piñata—a building many Chicagoans love to hate and probably wouldn't mind beating with a stick....

Re-Rooting + Redux 2019 from Sweet Water Foundation is part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Chicago Architecture Biennial’s attendance dropped to lowest levels in 2019

January 16, 2020 at 3:01 p.m.

Attendance at the Chicago Architecture Biennial dropped below half a million for the first time last year, according to figures released Thursday. The 2019 version of the global architecture and...

Thai architect wins Notre Dame’s 2020 Driehaus Prize for traditional design

January 16, 2020 at 4:00 a.m.

A Thai architect is the winner of the 2020 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for traditional architecture, the University of Notre Dame, which administers the prize, announced Thursday. Ong-ard Satrabhandhu, whose...

Before flying away, a brown creeper recovers on a sidewalk after hitting a building near Wacker Drive and Dearborn Street in April 2019.

Column: Chicago’s skyline is beautiful but it’s killing birds. New York has taken action. So must we.

January 16, 2020 at 8:48 a.m.

I love watching the cardinals, blue jays and finches swoop around our backyard and alight on my wife's prized bird feeder. They offer action, flecks of color and a chance...

The Chicago Board of Trade can be seen from the intersection of North LaSalle and West Randolph streets in Chicago on Jan. 8, 2020.

Column: Want to stop the central Loop exodus? A LaSalle Street ‘High Line’ is not the answer.

January 11, 2020 at 3:11 p.m.

Beware the urban design flavor of the month. That warning is worth recalling as Chicago figures out how to deal with a wave of large vacancies that will soon hit...

The interior of the Thompson Center in Chicago in April 2019. A sale looms for the Loop landmark.

Architecture’s broad reach in 2020: From Chicago towers for the super-rich to plans for Thompson Center and struggling neighborhoods

January 2, 2020 at 1:52 p.m.

Architecture is the inescapable art, touching the super-rich, the struggling poor and everyone in between. The coming year will underscore the field's broad impact as major buildings, urban plans and...

The Crown Fountain at Millennium Park on Dec. 20, 2019.

Column: Rating Chicago’s latest wave of parks and public spaces by the three ‘E’s: They’re better on entertainment and ecology than equity

December 24, 2019 at 11:43 a.m.

Beginning with the triumphant opening of Millennium Park in 2004, a remarkable collection of new public spaces has sprung up, like spring blossoms, in Chicago. It is hard to imagine...

A tenant office space on the sixth floor of the Old Post Office has a view of the Willis Tower in Chicago.

Chicagoans of the Year in architecture: Gensler team revived Chicago’s Old Post Office and filled a hole in the city

December 24, 2019 at 7:35 a.m.

Chicago's Old Post Office wasn't just a white elephant when the Gensler design firm began drawing up plans to revitalize the massive structure. It was a wounded white elephant. None...

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