More on Columbia College’s New Media Production Center
A couple of days ago I published an article here about Columbia College’s new Media Production Center (1600 South State Street). Although the location is starting to get a little off the beaten path,...
View ArticleChicago’s Seven Storefront Studios
The banners promise that Loyola University’s new $400,000 streetfront television studio in The Clare at Water Tower (55 East Pearson Street) will open in autumn 2009, but I think we can safely say that...
View ArticleMore Details About the New Roosevelt University Skyscraper
A meeting was held today to provide the public with more information about the new skyscraper that Roosevelt University is building in the Loop (421 South Wabash Street). You can read more about the...
View ArticleColumbia College Gets a New Dorm
The colleges in Chicago’s Loop just keep expanding. The latest is Columbia College. It’s leasing a 16-story building at 626 South Clark Street, formerly known as the Dwight Lofts. Sorry I can’t post...
View ArticleFollow-up: Roosevelt University’s New Skyscraper
Over the last three weeks or so, several readers have asked if the new Roosevelt University skyscraper (421 South Wabash Street)we wrote about is going to be LEED certified. Today I heard back from a...
View ArticleLakeshore East Could Get Its Public School After All
There’s been a lot of concern lately in Lakeshore East, the Loop’s fastest-growing sub-neighborhood, about schools. In an article we published a month ago, we noted that the developers have promised,...
View ArticleLakeshore East’s GEMS World Academy Inside and Out [Video]
Friends-of-the-blog, bKL Architecture, sent over an ani […]
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Two Views of Architecture and Education in Chicago
Lane Tech in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood If you had to name a high school that has had an outsized impact on the Chicago we live in today, one of the best choices would be Lane Technical...
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New Malcolm X College Campus Making the Grade
The view from our West Loop Bureau On the city’s west side, Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago, is getting a whole new syllabus. Not just new classes, but new classrooms. And then...
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Chicago Skyscraper Developers Adjust to Work-From-Home Era
We love working from home the way a Sox fan loves a bar fight. But not everyone has the luxury of a private balcony from which they can watch a hawk disassemble a pigeon on the roof of the Bankers...
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