Elizabeth Blasius: Chicago must act to protect the South Side’s midcentury modern Pride Cleaners
Despite its presence in Chicago pop culture, as an icon of South Side architecture, Pride Cleaners is not a Chicago landmark.
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Elizabeth Blasius and Susannah Ribstein: Landmark the Roger Brown Home and Studio — or lose it forever
The Roger Brown Home and Studio has local, national and international significance to a broad community of artists.
Elizabeth Blasius: Wrecking the Century & Consumers buildings is ‘Durbin Renewal,’ not urban safety
Federal money has been allocated for the demolition of the Century & Consumers Buildings, two early 1900s skyscrapers at the corner of State and Adams streets in Chicago's Loop. This...
Op-ed: Thompson Center 2.0 is a preservation win for 2022
Either by luck or by fate, I was on my way to the James R. Thompson Center when I saw that a news conference was being held to announce that...
Commentary: Restore — don’t demolish — the Thompson Center as a symbol of activism
"Some Chicago preservationists seem to embrace the notion that if Louis Sullivan didn't design a building, it probably isn't worth fighting for." Paul Gapp, who was the Chicago Tribune's architecture...