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If it makes it through the approval process, the planned work would comprise a significant first step of a $241 million effort to turn the Field Building into a mixed-use tower.
The remnants of the design will be kept to create a new artistic piece in conjunction with the artist, the CTA said.
“It’s good to see that the community has survived,” said a former longtime Marynook homeowner of the neighborhood’s anniversary. “We were all family. We were the Marynook family.”
Built in 1897, the venue for musical performances features a showstopping copper dome and marble-clad base designed by Chicago architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee.
The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum’s 35,000-item collection. About 1,000 images have been uploaded so far.
Tenants of South Park Terrace — a near copy of Wright’s long gone Francisco Terrace and featured in the film “Losing Isaiah” — deserve better.
The building’s owners had sought a permit to demolish the 150-year-old structure.
A neglected Altgeld Gardens building, designed by 1933 World's Fair architect, is slated for rebirth
Once renovated, the 79-year-old former Altgeld Gardens Commercial Center designed by noted architects Keck & Keck will house after-school programs and social services.
It took days of inquiries from the Sun-Times — and the posting of an earlier version of this column — for the federal General Services Administration to reveal its location.
She created a bookstore that was a meeting ground for architects and design devotees, where buyers could find rare works or the latest ones — then kick back in furniture designed by the likes of Mies van der Rohe, or Charles Rennie Mackintosh.