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Home » skyscrapers

Tag: skyscrapers

Posted inArts & Culture

Power, violence, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial

by Anjulie Rao September 18, 2019August 18, 2021

This year may end the unstoppable homage to dead white men and narratives that neglect how architecture has victimized communities of color.

Posted inBlogs

The Illinois house failed to override Rauner’s veto of ‘right-to-work’ zone ban by one vote, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd October 26, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, a Chicago priest blessed the Mandalay Bay hotel floor where Las Vegas shooter conducted massacre.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Chicago’s famous flatness is important (and not always true)

by Bill Savage June 22, 2017August 18, 2021

Pancake-flat topography made the city a center for engineering innovations.

Posted inArts & Culture

How skyscrapers changed our perspective on race

by Deanna Isaacs October 19, 2015August 18, 2021

U. of C. professor Adrienne Brown says there is a connection between vertical architecture and concepts of race.

"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s"
Posted inBest of Chicago

Best History in a Nonhistorical Joint

by Sam Worley June 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Everything comes from something.

Posted inNews & Politics

What the hell is this place? 35 East Wacker

by Aimee Levitt May 23, 2013August 19, 2021

Now an office building, 35 East Wacker was once a redoubt for wary jewelers—and Al Capone.

Posted inBlogs

Lawrence of Arabia versus Tess: Looking up and looking around

by Ben Sachs January 7, 2013August 18, 2021

Comparing two historical epics to have recently screened in new DCP restorations

Abelardo Morell's camera obscura image of the Empire State Building in bedroom
Posted inArts & Culture

Landscape with really huge phalluses

by Sam Worley July 10, 2012August 19, 2021

The Museum of Contemporary Art presents “Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity”

New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam by Charles C. Ebbets
Posted inArts & Culture

Fiction Issue 2012: “Sky Boys”

by Steve Trumpeter January 12, 2012August 19, 2021

Pure Fiction: “Sky Boys”

Posted inBlogs

Something Else to Consider in February’s Mayoral Race: Height

by Lauri Apple October 29, 2010August 19, 2021

Who will emerge as the pro-skyscraper candidate for mayor?

Posted inBlogs

The Spire Might Be Dead, But Its Brand Will Live On

by Lauri Apple October 12, 2010August 19, 2021

“The video’s kind of the perfect metaphor for what the American economy is all about these days: the branding and promoting of things that don’t actually exist.”

Posted inBlogs

Jeanne Gang’s Aqua: The Best Skyscraper of 2009

by Whet Moser February 24, 2010August 19, 2021

Emporis names Aqua the best skyscraper of 2009.

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