This site has an image Zaha Hadid’s proposed design for the (ppossibly) Guggenheim Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.
You could click on the link to see the building, or you can just imagine the product of a drunken menage a trois between a cruise ship, a Japanese sports car and Chicago’s Bean.
Yeah, maybe you should just […]
2001: A Space Odyssey turned 40 years old on April 2. That’s the date it premiered in Washington D.C.
As I said last month, this is the masterpiece of modern art, an opinion possibly confirmed by Roger Ebert writing in 1997:
The genius is not in how much Stanley Kubrick does in 2001: A Space Odyssey but […]
via Edward Lifson
Notre Dame’s Architecture Library slide collection has been made available on Flickr — more than 2,700 photographs. The images are from a pre-WWI collection, and include buildings in Europe, Asia and Central and South America. No Wright (in fact, no US) but worth a look.
The ones from Greece are amazing, especially the photos […]
The Chicago Architecture Foundation’ lease for its space in the Santa Fe building on S. Michicgan Ave. will be up in 2011, and the the CAF has begun to search for a new home. They are searching for 70,000 sq. feet, a doubling of its current size. The new location will be on Michigan or […]
Diane Keaton is selling the Lloyd Wright-designed house she bought last year for $9 million (I guess the real estate slump means less in the Academy Award winning demographic). The home was built for Alfred Newman, I think the guy who composed the 20th Century-Fox Films fanfare.
Diane Keaton, scientifically proven to be the most beautiful […]
Today through Monday the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago will have a special “virtual” tour of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.
The computer-generated model of the fairgrounds will be projected on a movie screen in a 220-seat museum auditorium. The program allows Snyder to move the screen’s point of view at will, giving viewers […]
A free exhibit at the Chicago Architectural Foundation (224 S. Michigan Ave) “Do We Dare Squander Chicago’s Great Architectural Heritage?” through May 9.
The exhibition includes architectural artifacts from the Tribune, Fisher, Santa Fe, and Monadnock buildings, a rare film–featuring photographer and preservationist Richard Nickel, of the demolition of Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago Stock Exchange, photographs […]
Arcspace has a page on the Reliance Building (now the home of Burnham Hotel (don’t follow the link — you can’t afford it)), one of Chicago’s great Burnham and Root designs. The building underwent an award-winning restoration in the mid-to-late 1990s, and the page includes a number of photographs showing the beautifully restored interior and […]
In January, David Bradley died at the age of 92. David Bradley was the son of Harold Bradley, the first owner of the Louis Sullivan-designed Bradley House in Madison, Wisconsin. David Bradley briefly lived in that house before the family moved into a Prairie Style home designed by Purcell & Elmslie (George Grant Elmslie had […]