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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Reese in the Reader
The Chicago Reader’s cover story this week is an excellent article by Lynn Becker, detailing the absurdity of demolishing the Michael Reese Hospital complex: The Rush to Raze Point for point, it’s pretty hard to disagree with anything Becker says. … Continue reading
Less than the sum of its parts
Behold, the glorious NorTown Medical Building! (1963, N. California at Granville, aka the Gran-Cal Medical Center.) It’s everything that’s wrong with MidCentury architecture, huh? Bland, dull, boxy, generic, right? Nobody put any thought or care into this one, did they? … Continue reading
Posted in Midcentury Modernism
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