Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Past Made Future, Part 2: Mesopotamian Architecture

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When I started this blog, I never imagined writing about  Ghostbusters (1984), but it's a strangely appropriate topic for the beginning...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Past Made Future, Part 1: Mesoamerican Architecture

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In the 1920s there was a rise in popular interest in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica.  This popularity coin...
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Will Price's Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Terminal, 1918

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While browsing through the Cushman Photograph Collection , I stumbled across a  random photo of the Chicago skyline from the 1940s.  It wasn...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Sky Harbor: Airport of Tomorrow

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" Sky Harbor, a comprehensive airport and aviation center of the most modern type will soon be placed in operation ... What the highway...
Monday, November 14, 2011

New school meets old

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My last post ended with a photo of 333 N. Michigan Avenue.  Designed by the firm of Holabird + Root and completed in 1928, 333 N. Michigan w...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

A tale of two skyscraper designs

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The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition of 1922 is often cited by architectural historians as a major influence on the design of Chicago skysc...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

Machine Age goddess

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©The Art Institute of Chicago  Full disclosure: the title of this post was inspired by Debra Bricker Balken's   John Storrs: Machine...