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  • Rencontre avec Darrel G. Babuk – Architecte, spécialiste en réseau de transport

    Publié le 9 septembre 2006 In english:  some time ago, I was recommended to Christophe Loustau, Recipient of the prestgious Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship.  Christophe’s research project was to document the original New York City – San Francisco transcontinental railway across the United States.  I did an amalgamation of many of my usual railway & […]

  • Deux journées de folie en compagnie de Darrel Babuk

    session du 8 au 9 septembre 2006 In English:  some time ago, I was recommended to Christophe Loustau, Recipient of the prestgious Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship.  Christophe’s research project was to document the original New York City – San Francisco transcontinental railway across the United States.  I did an amalgamation of many of my usual […]

  • The “Architect – Comedian” as the next new comic sensation

    At a farewell party last night, one fellow picked a conversation topic started expounding on “lawyer-comedians”. Now, I can count lawyers as being among my best of friends, however:  a “lawyer – comedian” sounded as oxymoronic as would an “architect-comedian”.  I somehow doubt if anyone could find comedy in issuing a change order or an […]

  • The Illinois Saint Andrew Society Highland Games British Car Show

    The good hostess favours of rain ponchos the evening previous was an omen indeed.  Unprecedented 70 mph winds and heavy downpour rains swept through the area.  Upon checking email at 430 on Saturday morning, a note read “.. the Games will go on..” Just a wee bit of the 7000 pounds of this 1953 Bentley […]

  • Presentation to Fachhochshule am Main Frankfurt and Ryerson University

    Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Yesterday, I made a presentation of “The Canadian Side of the Chicago School of Architecture 1884 – 1935” to a group of architecture students and faculty visiting Chicago from Fachhochscule Frankfurtam Main of Frankfort, Germany and Ryerson University of Toronto, at their request.  It was a group of about fifty people, they […]

  • Great Chicago Places and Spaces 2009, Part 2

    Sunday, May 17, 2009 Great Chicago Places and Spaces took place yesterday.  While the overall program was shortened (one day rather than two, 100 presentations instead of more than 200) it was very well attended.  All three of my presentations sold out.  It was beautiful weather, albeit a bit windy at times. Secret Streets of […]

  • Great Chicago Places and Spaces 2009

    Friday, May 8, 2009 The City of Chicago Mayor’s Office of Special Events has just announced the presentations being offered for Great Chicago Places and Spaces this year.  I am honoured to have been asked to make three separate walking tour presentations for this event, which will occur on Saturday, May 16. In Secret Streets […]

  • The Rise and Fall of the McMansion, and other Midwestern Housing Trends

    Tuesday, September 5, 2006 In the US market, many sense that the slumping sales of Toll Brothers Builders and Lowe’s are symptomatic of an overall declining real estate and construction market.  Has all of the wind gone out of the housing market, as the housing bubble doomsday promoters predicted? Perhaps not.  Perhaps the housing market […]

  • Streetscapes

    Monday, June 5, 2006 Successful streetscapes are defined by spaces between buildings. The spaces become successful places; streets where we live out our lives, nooks and crannies that create pleasant oasis, buildings that form backdrops and walls that give meter to time and space….all decidedly urban concepts. Let’s take the flipside to this thought and […]

  • Parking Lots

    Saturday, November 19, 2005 A recent article by Paul Kaihla in BUSINESS2.0 Magazine brought me to think about the parking lot as a prolific, yet endangered landscape feature of the post war era. The article, entitled The Next Real Estate Boom (November 1, 2005) spoke of a coming wave of expansion, growth and redevelopment of […]