There's nothing like an early spring warm snap to make office workers seek out an open patch of grass. These people are sunning themselves on the lawn of 311 South Wacker Drive.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Slice of Life: Lawn Ornaments
There's nothing like an early spring warm snap to make office workers seek out an open patch of grass. These people are sunning themselves on the lawn of 311 South Wacker Drive.
Status Update: Children's Memorial Hospital
Yet another status update on the new Children's Memorial Hospital (225 East Chicago Avenue), The facade is coming along, and is even completely in place on some sides. The vertical stripes you see in the picture are repeated at the top of the building where they conceal mechanical equipment.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Face-Off in the Gold Coast
There's a face-off in the Gold Coast. The facade of what used to be Sur La Table (52 East Walton Street) has been pulled, pushed, knocked, ripped, and torched off over the last couple of weeks. It looks like the whole place is being gutted.
Last we heard, a cupcake joint was looking at moving in here. But there are still "For Lease" signs on the scaffolding, so maybe that plan fell through.
Last we heard, a cupcake joint was looking at moving in here. But there are still "For Lease" signs on the scaffolding, so maybe that plan fell through.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Slice of Life: Lunar Reflections
TweetEcho: March 11-29, 2010
For those of you who don't subscribe to our Twitter feed, here are the items we tweeted in the last week or so:
- Full moon rising over Lake Michigan. Get your cameras out!about 14 hours ago via Tweetie
- Chicago building of the day: 1242 North Lake Shore Drivehttp://ow.ly/1aDuXabout 22 hours ago via HootSuite
- Which Chicago skyscrapers did (and didn't!) participate in Earth Hour - Pix and partial list: http://ow.ly/1rNzx9:09 AM Mar 28th via HootSuite
- One last dark Chicago skyline pic. http://twitpic.com/1beu8z8:46 PM Mar 27th via Tweetie
- Another darkened Chicago pic. http://twitpic.com/1beu3e8:45 PM Mar 27th via Tweetie
- Still lit: 300 & 353 N LaSalle, Museum Park, Millennium tower, Millennium Park, the Fordham.8:43 PM Mar 27th via Tweetie
- Navy Pier; Hancock Center; Willis, Park, NBC, Chicago Title, Chase, Unitrin, United Towers; Marriott all dark for Earth Hour8:40 PM Mar 27th via Tweetie
- Pix: Chicago skyline darkened for Earth Hour. Except for 300 N. LaSalle. Shame on Hines. http://twitpic.com/1bercw8:35 PM Mar 27th via Tweetie
- Chicago building of the day: 2626 North Lakeview Avenuehttp://ow.ly/1aDuy11:20 AM Mar 27th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: 16 West Jackson Boulevardhttp://ow.ly/1aDub11:20 AM Mar 26th via HootSuite
- @AgentLuke Good thought. The buildings were selected at random months ago. I'll try to keep an eye out for this sort of thing in the future6:00 PM Mar 25th via HootSuite in reply to AgentLuke
- Considering the size of the waves breaking on Lake Shore Drive today, maybe Happy Days was right -- you can surf on Lake Michigan.5:59 PM Mar 25th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: Chicago Board of Trade : 141 West Jackson Boulevard http://ow.ly/1aDtX11:20 AM Mar 25th via HootSuite
- After much publicity in the trade press, Rush Street boutique Jake finally puts up a "Goodbye" sign.9:01 AM Mar 25th via HootSuite
- Chicago architects selected for yet another World's Tallest Building -- this one in Saudi Arabia http://ow.ly/1qIjX7:35 AM Mar 25th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: The Terraces : 801 South Plymouth Court http://ow.ly/1aDtL11:20 AM Mar 24th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center College of Dentistry http://ow.ly/1aDtl11:20 AM Mar 23rd via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: The New Roosevelt University Building : 425 South Wabash Street http://ow.ly/1aDta11:20 AM Mar 22nd via HootSuite
- An Australian newspaper's guide to Chicago:http://ow.ly/1pj1j8:11 AM Mar 22nd via HootSuite
- Old Varsity Theater movie palace in Evanston could have new life as performing arts center - chicagotribune.comhttp://ow.ly/1piYe8:09 AM Mar 22nd via HootSuite
- grahamelliot Coming out of my self imposed Lenten exile to announce that we signed a lease today and "Grahamwich" will be located at 615 N. State St.8:47 PM Mar 16th via TweetieRetweeted by ChicagoArchitec and 10 others
- I need people to test out a new web site I'm just about finished building. See here for details: http://ow.ly/1p52z1:18 PM Mar 21st via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: Northern Trust Company Building : 118 East Oak Street http://ow.ly/1aDsQ11:20 AM Mar 21st via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: Marriott Chicago Downtown Magnificent Mile : 540 North Michigan Avenuehttp://ow.ly/1aDsD11:20 AM Mar 20th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: Roberto's Building : 214 South State Street http://ow.ly/1aDso11:20 AM Mar 19th via HootSuite
- Did you know that Henry Ford built a hanger in Lansing in the 1920s to mass produce an airplane? http://bit.ly/8ZT2yS (via @enjoyillinois)11:01 AM Mar 19th via Tweetie
- Chicago building of the day: Eight East Chestnut : 8 East Chestnut Street http://ow.ly/1aDrE11:15 AM Mar 18th via HootSuite
- Its antennae are lit up green for Saint Patrick's Day, but that could be the only "green" thing about the Willis Tower:http://ow.ly/1nCn78:08 PM Mar 17th via HootSuite
- Oak Park approves 20-story condo/hotel towerhttp://ow.ly/1np4a (via @CRED_by_Crains)11:39 AM Mar 17th via Tweetie
- Chicago building of the day: 420 East Ohiohttp://ow.ly/1aDrq11:15 AM Mar 17th via HootSuite
- Another boutique closes on Oak Street: http://ow.ly/1niN3while another one opens: http://ow.ly/1niNS7:28 AM Mar 17th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: Wrigley Building : 400-410 North Michigan Avenue http://ow.ly/1aDqp11:15 AM Mar 16th via HootSuite
- Tribune review of the Elysian tries to make a timely Alice In Wonderland joke. Fails. http://ow.ly/1lohH8:39 PM Mar 15th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: The Constellation : 1555 North Dearborn Parkway http://ow.ly/1aDq811:15 AM Mar 15th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: The Fairbanks : 280 East Illinoishttp://ow.ly/1aDpk11:15 AM Mar 14th via HootSuite
- Chicago building of the day: Newberry Plaza : 1050 North State Street http://ow.ly/1aDot11:15 AM Mar 13th via HootSuite
- Chicago(ish) building of the day: Murray Baker Bridgehttp://ow.ly/1aDnv11:15 AM Mar 12th via HootSuite
- If you're wondering where the marching band music is coming from downtown, it's for the opening of the new Columbia store on Michigan Avenue9:04 AM Mar 12th via HootSuite
- New York Times article about pop-up art galleries in vacant spaces in #Chicagoland: http://ow.ly/1i1Ud7:29 AM Mar 12th via HootSuite
- Frank Gehry will speak at a FREE public event at the Chicago Public Library: http://ow.ly/1hkK43:11 PM Mar 11th via HootSuite
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