in a single afternoon, six gargantuan hand carved limestone eagles were carefully hoisted from their perches that wrapped around three sides of the bunte candy factory water tower prior to demolition. the massive prairie school style factory complex was designed by the notable chicago-based architectural firm...

revisited the mecca exhibit (located at the cultural center) with a reporter i have since befriended. the timing was perfect. to our great surprise, we crossed paths with tim samuelson - the show's curator and chicago's cultural historian. we were kindly invited to spend an afternoon...

with camera gear and tripods in hand and around my shoulders, i entered the chicago athletic association building for another highly anticipated afternoon spent photodocumenting the chicago athletic association building and annex - known as the "michigan building" and "madison building" respectively. after arranging my camera...

Chicago Cultural Center  >  Exhibitions  >  Monthly Schedule  >  Wright Before the "Lloyd" Mention the name Frank Lloyd Wright, and modern architecture immediately comes to everyone’s mind.  But as a young Chicago architect of the 1890s, signing his work with a less dramatic “Frank L. Wright” his early work...

earlier this week i visited a chicago landmark building that was undergoing interior renovation - presumably for conversion into yet another "boutique" hotel. the preservationists appointed by the city were there to recommend what should be left intact in order to preserve what remained of...

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