Recent Posts Tagged With 'urban planning'

• Chicago in 2016

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 02:43 in architecture, architects, urban planning

    [Large container dumpster, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Guess we can throw all those Chicago 2016 banners and assorted paraphernalia into the dumpster. The Olympics are going to Rio.  [Washington Park, Chicago, September, 3...

• Chicago's Underworld

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 03:20 in architecture, urban planning

    [Wacker Drive, Chicago, September 7, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]Cities are constantly changing and evolving organisms, sometimes through specific planning and sometimes haphazardly. Chicago city planners decided to clean up the c...

• Walter Gropius' Chicago

  Posted on Thursday June 25th, 2009 at 02:40 in architecture, history, preservation, architects, urban planning

    [Friend Pavilion, Michael Reese Hospital Campus, June 23, 2009 /Image & Artwork: designslinger]We attended a lecture yesterday afternoon at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.The talk was given by Grahm Balkany, the founder of the Gropiu...

• The Land of Douglas

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 03:00 in architecture, history, cities, urban planning

    [Groveland, Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago /Image & Artwork: designslinger]We just got our Illinois license plates inscribed with the words Land of Lincolnacross the bottom. On Chicago's near south side, is an area that was once the land of...

• Nothing's Set In Stone

  Posted on Tuesday June 16th, 2009 at 03:32 in architecture, history, urban planning

    [3270 N. Lake Shore Drive, aka 3270 Sheridan Road /Images & Artwork: designslinger]If you try and look up the address inscribed in stone on the building pictured abovewhether it's on an online map or the old fashioned printed-on-paper kind...