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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For everyone who didn’t get one of these in the mail, these are the christmas cards we got steve prue to shoot for us back in september:
last night we wandered up to logan boulevard to document the thoroughly bizarre christmas light setup that we’ve been driving past for the past month:
yes, there’s a ferris wheel [...]
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