It’s a good thing I put my car into storage. According to the Healthy Streets Campaign, my neighborhood is a scary place to drive or walk. Well, technically, the danger zone is a few blocks west of me. It’s kind of amazing, actually. Even though you can see a number of six-way intersections on the [...]
that was about it for looptopia. A few odd and quirky sights, but not much real entertainment. Underwhelmed would be the wrong word. I didn’t have expectations of the event, just a slightly more entertaining friday. instead, most of the events required advance tickets, or had lines around the block, or both. I supposed [...]
The architemps experiment is over. I didn’t really experience it the way it was meant to be experienced, i suppose. during 7 months with the agency, i spent 7 months with 1 firm, and 1 day at an interior design firm. Architemps really consider themselves better at providing ‘emergency’ staffing, which is what i did [...]
AIA Chicago announced their 2006 Design Awards today. Ammar got an interior nomination for his Me Miyake interior: It’s very interesting, Ammar’s work has always been minimal in the sense of how it reacts to program and having open plans. But this space is surprisingly hard edged and orthogonal, in contrast to the work that [...]
Kudos to chicago’s Landmarks panel for rejecting a plan wherein yet another building is stripped down to its historic terra cotta facade, and had something completely unrelated stuffed inside. I’ve had enough of projects that use a multistory garage as street frontage, and dress it up in a fake building with spandrel windows. Programatic honesty [...]
