« More About Laurent | Main | Material Master »
Chicago is America's "first city" when it comes to architecture, yet we continue to have a pretty checkered record of honoring that title--especially in preserving historic architecture. The sins of tearing down Louis Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange Building in the 1970s are being revisited by the current action of tearing down Walter Gropius-designed buildings today. Read about it at Blair Kamin's weblog here.
Image via Gropius In Chicago Coalition website
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8341bf72a53ef0120a68a3a2e970c
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Chicago's Checkered Record:
This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
 |
|
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
Comments