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Monthly Archives: December 2010
A brief pause
I try to keep a regular schedule for posting, but with the holidays underway and family obligations pulling me this way and that, I need to take a short break. I’ll be back at it come January. Till then, thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Life in Chicago
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Public Storage Mutilates for Commerce!
Y’know what company really hates architecture? Public Storage. Clark Street, Edgewater These guys ram their unified corporate paint scheme over every building they get, with a disregard for aesthetics and architectural detail that borders on the criminal. S. Ashland Avenue … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Lakefront towers
With the weather having taken its inevitable late-fall turn for the crappy, I’d like to skip up and down the lakefront a bit in photographs, and remember both warmer, bluer and greener times, and also some of the lovely highrises … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
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Lake Street Church, Evanston
Lake Street Church is Evanston’s oldest (designed 1872 by architect Cass Chapman) and, for my money, the most beautiful. It’s Victorian Gothic – tall, narrow windows with pointed arches, and a general sense of verticality. The exterior is a simple … Continue reading
Posted in evanston, historicist churches
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