Blair Kamin reports that William Baker, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, became the first American to win the Fritz Leonhardt prize for structural engineering. In 2007, Wired ran an excellent profile of Baker that’s worth a read; he’s one of the great living engineers.
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The Green Expressway
Scramble up the embankment onto the elevated train tracks along West Bloomingdale and you’ll find yourself in a very weedy limbo. Formerly a Canadian Pacific rail line serving factories along a three-mile route from Ridgeway to the river, the tracks have been mostly unused by all save the occasional critter or urban explorer since the […]
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The Bloomingdale Trail: Chicago’s High Line?
Could the Bloomingdale Trail be Chicago’s High Line?
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Chicago’s Next Astonishing Park
It’ll be three miles long and 30 feet wide, and you can’t get there by car.