Lee Bey
Architecture Critic and member of the Editorial Board
College prep school says, for now, the former Lakeside Bank will provide washrooms, storage, and expansion for athletic programs.
The bank, originally a groundbreaking library for blind people and those with other disabilities, was designed by renowned Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, Lee Bey writes.
Built in 1975, the building was designed by noted Chicago architect Harry Weese. Village officials seek new space for employees and cops.
Adjaye, a celebrated architect who had been attached to an Old Town redevelopment project, was once called a genius by Barack Obama.
The futuristic exhibition home from Chicago’s 1933 World’s Fair is being readied for repairs via a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior.
If you run across midcentury images of signature Chicago buildings, it’s likely Cabanban was behind the lens.
Architecture critic Lee Bey asks: Do the changes give Chicago a winning hand?
Plans call for Baxter’s architecturally significant Deerfield campus to be replaced by a warehouse facility. That would be a massive case of architectural heartbreak of the first order, architecture critic Lee Bey writes.
If the Greyhound station is sold and not replaced, Chicago would become the largest U.S. metropolis without an intercity bus terminal, Lee Bey writes.