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Blair Kamin

Blair Kamin is the architectural critic for the Chicago Tribune and a contributing editor to Architectural Record.
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Cummins Tower

Cummins Tower by Deborah Berke Partners

Indianapolis
Blair Kamin
May 1, 2017
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A new corporate headquarters in Indianapolis designed by Deborah Berke makes a big impact both inside and out.


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The Robey

The Robey Hotel in Chicago

Antunovich Associates with Nicolas Schuybroek Architects and Marc Merckx
Blair Kamin
February 1, 2017
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An Art Deco office building beyond the Loop is reimagined as an urbane hotel by Antunovich Associates with Nicolas Schuybroek Architects and Marc Merckx.


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Peter Petkoff Obituary

Prominent Structural Engineer Peter Petkoff Dies at 98

Blair Kamin
January 16, 2017
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Peter P. Petkoff, a structural engineer who helped realize the visions of famed architects Eero Saarinen and Minoru Yamasaki, died Jan. 9 at age 98 of vascular complications.


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Chicago, Making Places

Making Places: Public Spaces in Chicago

Reclaiming defunct infrastructure, a series of new public paths and parks invite locals and visitors to gather, play, or simply enjoy navigating the city's neighborhoods.
Blair Kamin
October 16, 2015
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Every night, as I walk along the Chicago Riverwalk to my commuter train, I witness scenes that were unthinkable a year ago: young office workers sipping drinks at a packed wine bar, big powerboats tied up at dockside, clusters of kayaks scooting along the water. 


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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Take It from the Top

Mayor Rahm Emanuel reinforces a legacy for the built environment.
Blair Kamin
October 16, 2015
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Since entering office, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (third from right) has stepped into a surge of public-space revivals, including the opening of the 606 trail in June. Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel had big—no, huge—shoes to fill when he took office in 2011. His predecessor, Richard M. Daley, was straight out of central casting—scion of a legendary Chicago mayor, more street-smart than book-smart, but nonetheless a visionary who vowed to make his once-polluted Rust Belt burg “the greenest city in America.” 


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Stars War Over Chicago's Lakefront

The problem with the Lucas Museum? Not just the design but the planning and the politics.
Blair Kamin
February 15, 2015
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The avant-garde's defense of the mountainous blob that Star Wars creator George Lucas wants to erect on Chicago's lakefront speaks volumes about all that's wrong with architecture today: a celebration of object-making at the expense of public space, plus a shameless coddling of the powerful, provided they serve one's aesthetic agenda.


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Earl Shapiro Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools

Starting at The Top: Carved masses and open spaces characterize the university-affiliated school for experimental education.
Blair Kamin
January 16, 2014
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Like the institution it serves, the new early-childhood learning center of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools is anything but ordinary.


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Fifty Years Later, Still Scandalizing the Neighbors

Blair Kamin
May 21, 2013
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What Le Corbusier’s only realized project in North America says to us today. The center’s iconic ramp is wonderful to walk on, but a drag from below. And the landscape is merely a leftover space. How fast the radical present becomes the historical past. This new-is-old transformation has struck again at Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard. The boldly sculpted reinforced-concrete building, the architect’s only realized project in North America and one of the final commissions before his death in 1965, turned 50 on May 28, two weeks before New York’s Museum of Mod­ern Art would
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Exhibitions: Chicago's 81-Year-Old Enfant Terrible

Blair Kamin
March 6, 2012
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Blair Kamin looks at Stanley Tigerman and his work. Photo © The Art Institute of Chicago The Titanic (1978), photomontage on paper, depicting Mies’s Crown Hall sinking into (or perhaps rising up from) Lake Michigan. To design watchers, Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman and his iconoclastic outbursts are practically as familiar as the rumble of the city’s elevated trains. Could there really be anything new to say about him? The welcome surprise of a new Tigerman show is that it successfully situates its subject, for decades one of Chicago’s dominant architectural voices, within the broader currents of his life and times.
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Burj Khalifa

The completion of the world’s tallest skyscraper raises intriguing questions about the significance of this gleaming, spiraling form.
Blair Kamin
August 16, 2010
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Iconic skyscrapers, especially those that strive for the fleeting title of “world’s tallest building,” are rarely the progeny of cold logic.


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