drifter/ writer on architecture, culture and Chicago
Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
It's become so much a part of the Chicago it almost seems like it's been here forever, but the Riverwalk, one of Rahm's real achievements, opened just in 2015.
A photo-gallery: The Construction of Chicago's New Riverwalk. arcchicago.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-co…
Oct 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Once Chicago had 10 major municipal parking garages. Soon there will be none. They were built in the 1950's for a brave new world where a spawn of expressways was making the city increasingly car-centric, All were designed by major Chicago architects, holding up to 2,000 cars...
Perhaps the most famous was "the birdcage" on Wacker near State, adorned by Milton Horn's sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake, which after demolition was rescued from a trash heap and now graces the north Riverwalk...
Perhaps the most famous was "the birdcage" on Wacker near State, adorned by Milton Horn's sculpture Chicago Rising from the Lake, which after demolition was rescued from a trash heap and now graces the north Riverwalk... 