^^^ Yeah if they had been able to go ahead with the huge original plan that would have been Primo.
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A very recent visionary proposal for Wrigleyville... on acid.
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A very recent visionary proposal for Wrigleyville
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DePaul to raise $250 million for arts, academic buildings in Lincoln Park
By: Shia Kapos May 17, 2010 DePaul University will launch a $250-million capital campaign this week to build new theater, music and art schools on its Lincoln Park campus. The 10-year fundraising effort is the first comprehensive capital campaign in the university's 112-year history. The article says that 1/2 of the funds have already been obtained. Here is another notable excerpt: The new buildings will be: Theatre School, southwest corner of Fullerton and Racine avenues; School of Music, west side of the 2300 block of North Halsted Street; DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton, and one new academic building on the west side of the 2300 block of North Kenmore Street. ^ Some questions/concerns: Is 935 W Fullerton a vacant lot? Also, a streetview of the 2300 block of N Kenmore shows that there is no vacant land whatsoever on that whole block, and it is in fact pretty densely built up. Yet not far around the corner is a huge parking lot. Is there a need to demolish historic building stock like this? |
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Developers and architects tend to get very dreamy eyed when they built up all those West and south loop block-long buildings with ground floor retail. It seemingly had the mix of right ingredients to build successful streetscapes, but they were wrong. The areas out front of the buildings have a quiet feel to them, they are not energized in the way Wrigleyville is.....reason being the more subdivisions of architecture you have along the street, the more interesting and diverse a street becomes. Unless we are downtown, I'm very against large single-building multi-use developments. In my opinion this development should at most occupy the under-utilized space on Addison, not Clark. This project has still not been scaled back enough to be a well fit component for this neighborhood. |
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Poor quality but you get the idea. http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...N/be2edfb1.jpg |
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If there are indeed "tenants waiting in the wings" then I have substantially higher expectations for this building. Expectations that 90% of Chicago developments in the last 15 years have not come close to reaching. On a different note, there is scaffolding around the brick 8 story structure occupied by East West University. This building was next door to the other two recently demolished buildings. There are some substantial chunks of the facade missing with a large chunk of the cornice and parapet gouged out at the top. Please tell me this one is being renovated. |
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It's interesting, but I'm a bigger fan of contemporary architecture when we are dealing with smaller buildings. By contemporary, I mean anything in the past few decades, not necessarily stylistic qualities. |
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Why not perform a facadectomy? preserve the storefronts, and build this project behind the streetwall? i understand this isnt the cheapest solution, but if this developer really wants to undertake this project, the city should demand this. |
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