From its gleaming white terra cotta façade to its enduring clock tower presence on Michigan Avenue, the Wrigley Building has long stood as a symbol of Chicago. But in the new book The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, four of the city’s foremost historians and creatives reveal that this architectural marvel is far more […]
Geoffrey Baer is a man well-known to many Chicagoans: he’s led tours of Chicago communities, both onscreen and in person, on the ground and in the air, revealing new perspectives on Chicago history, culture and people. Raised in Highland Park and Deerfield, Baer is an eight-time Emmy Award-winning public television writer, producer and program host. […]
Architecture, at its best, combines art and technology. At NextHaus Alliance®, the homes we design and build marry beauty, energy efficiency and comfort to give our clients high design and high performance with low carbon and low stress. Crafted to be sustainable, resilient and healthy, a NextHaus home is graceful, elegant, designed for you and […]
First comes fame. Then comes fortune. As these current and recently sold real estate listings for homes owned by celebrities in Beverly Hills, Palm Springs and Nevada illustrate, jaw-dropping digs inevitably follow. 4115 Palmero Drive, Los Angeles, California, $1,888,000 Co-listed by “Selling Sunset” star Chrishell Stause and Yonathan Baltazar, this 3-bedroom midcentury abode on Mount […]
Few things were more exciting when I was young than my family’s yearly trip to visit my great aunt Barbara in Belvedere. Although I grew up in the Central Valley, my family has roots in the Bay Area, and long before I was born, she had settled in Belvedere in a house known locally as […]
If you’ve always dreamt of owning a home in Napa, Sonoma or nearby, At Home in the Wine Country (Gibbs Smith, August 24) deserves a place on your coffee table. Authors Heather Sandy Hebert and Chase Reynolds Ewald take readers inside 17 new, swoon-worthy wine country homes by elite architects and designers — and the […]
It seemed like fate when Mark and Wendy La Varre first toured the single-story mid-century house on a lush lot in Glencoe. Designed by architect, Samuel Abraham Marx, and built in 1953, the light-filled main living areas boasted floor-to-ceiling windows and a breezy layout that wowed the soon-to-be empty nesters. To say nothing of its […]
Driving up Sheridan Road and meandering through any of the beautiful North Shore suburbs is truly a treat that inspires awe as well as an appreciation of architecture and exceptional beauty. The development of some of the finest towns in the country began in part in the early 1800s. On the iconic Sheridan Road, formerly […]
While we won’t know the full extent of the economic downfall of Covid-19 for some time, we do know that it will have the biggest impact on small businesses, restaurants and nonprofits. Nonprofits rely heavily on donations raised through events and galas—many of which have been cancelled. The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) is one of the […]
While we won’t know the full extent of the economic downfall of Covid-19 for some time, we do know that it will have the biggest impact on small businesses, restaurants and nonprofits. Nonprofits rely heavily on donations raised through events and galas—many of which have been cancelled. The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) is one of the […]
