Blair Kamin – Page 32

Tribune Tower, Chicago
Completed: 1925
Architects: John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood
Changing use: Plans call for the office building to be converted to condominiums. The baiduhai is scheduled to move this spring to the old Prudential Building, just north of Millennium Park.

More newspapers are departing their landmark homes, and why that matters

December 14, 2018 at 6:50 p.m.

Printer’s ink still coursed through the veins of the structure where I landed my first real job in journalism — The Des Moines Register & Tribune Building, a beaux-arts high-rise...

Revised Tiger Woods golf course design for south lakefront: Practice rounds still needed

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Three questions are paramount in assessing newly revised plans for a Tiger Woods golf course on Chicago’s south lakefront: What would it give the city? What would it take? And...

The Nuveen building at 333. W. Wacker Drive is seen on Jan. 18, 2012.

No Twenty-five Year Award this year: Is this a slap at postmodernism?

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

In architectural circles, the words “missed opportunity” typically refer to a project of great potential that turns out to be a dud. This year, they also apply to an award...

Outside the front door of Tribune Tower.

New skyscraper rivaling Trump’s in height could rise behind a redeveloped Tribune Tower

May 23, 2019 at 12:26 a.m.

A skyscraper that would rival President Donald Trump’s Chicago high-rise as the city’s second-tallest would emerge behind the historic Tribune Tower, while the neo-Gothic office building would be turned into...

Obama center plans won’t destroy Olmsted’s park — they should be improved, not rejected

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

As debate heats up over the wisdom of putting the Obama Presidential Center in historic Jackson Park, opponents are painting the project as a self-indulgent statement by former President Barack...

French architects win 2018 Driehaus Prize

May 11, 2019 at 4:33 a.m.

Two French architects are the winners of the 2018 Richard H. Driehaus Prize for traditional architecture, the University of Notre Dame, which administers the prize, announced Wednesday. Marc Breitman and...

The Republic, a bronze sculpture by Daniel Chester French, in Chicago's Jackson Park.

Golden Lady statue in Jackson Park would be ‘liberated’ by Obama center

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Call it an act of women’s liberation. For decades, a gilded bronze statue that evoked one of the iconic images of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair has been been marooned...

An Obama tower in an Olmsted park? Yes, but design still needs refinement

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

During his White House years, Barack Obama did not shy away from big, provocative political issues. The aesthetic instincts of the former president, who once wanted to be an architect,...

A commercial Frank Lloyd Wright building is demolished in Whitefish, Mont., on Jan. 10, 2018. The building's owner had set a Jan. 10 deadline to raise $1.7 million in cash to buy the building, but negotiations failed.

Frank Lloyd Wright building in Montana demolished; Riverwalk, Chinatown library win national awards

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

The owner of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building in Montana demolished the structure after negotiations over a possible sale fell apart Wednesday. Located in Whitefish, Mont., and listed on the...

This recent but undated photo shows demolition of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building underway in Whitefish, Mont.

After celebratory Frank Lloyd Wright year, one of his buildings faces demolition

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Last year was full of sunshine for Frank Lloyd Wright fans. The legendary architect’s Unity Temple in Oak Park reopened after a splendid restoration. And New York’s Museum of Modern...

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