EdwardKeegan
@EdwardKeegan
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A Chicago architect who practices, writes, broadcasts, and teaches on architectural subjects. Avid baseball fan, too.
Chicago, IL
Joined December 2008
My @chicagotribune look at tall timber towers:.
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Since 2022, Chicago’s neighbor to the north has been home to the tallest timber tower in the world and is building more.
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“Public housing in Chicago began on the Near West Side’s Taylor Street…”.
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Chicago’s new National Public Housing Museum and Roosevelt Square mixed-use apartments show glimmers of architectural success.
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My @chicagotribune look at @NASCAR Chicago Street Race.
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The NASCAR Chicago Street Race is an exceptionally well-conceived and packaged mirror of the city.
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RIP, @LeonKrier. Years before he was the first @DriehausPrize laureate, he was the first director of @SOM_Design’s Chicago Institute for Architecture & Urbanism before leaving to design Charles III’s Poundbury.
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My @chicagotribune look at the renovated Intuit Art Museum.
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Completely rethinking their old home was exactly the right move — for the Intuit Art Museum and Chicago.
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It’s time for a reset at Lincoln Yards. My @chicagotribune column:.
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Chicago’s Lincoln Yards could bring neighborhoods together around a shared resource that would draw visitors from across the city.
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My Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune look at the Chicago architecture that shaped Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex.
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In Chicago, whether it’s architecture or Catholicism, we do ordinary very well. It’s one reason we now call Pope Leo XIV our own.
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“[P]ublic access to these public assets is vital — and has been severely compromised through the last two mayoral administrations. Millennium Park needs to, once again, become a living, breathing part of the city.”.
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Ticketed events should be the rare exception at Millennium Park. Gates and fences should be eliminated.
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Hitting the road this spring? Don’t miss Eero Saarinen’s Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. My @chicagotribune.com take:.
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The Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, is a challenging piece of architecture that can delight, surprise and befuddle.
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“Wrigley has always been an alchemical brew of simplicity and sophistication.” Changes to Wrigley—and Chicago—this Opening Weekend. My @chicagotribune look:.
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Three vintage three-flats represented Wrigley Field’s history and the architecture that has made Chicago’s neighborhoods enduring.
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My @chicagotribune look at the new Encuentro Square affordable housing development in Logan Square .
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Encuentro Square is 100% affordable multifamily housing in Chicago that has better design than most new “luxury” apartments in the city.
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RT @BlairKamin: 1/2 Amid the sad Sun-Times buyouts, there’s a piece of good news: Lee Bey will become the full-time architecture critic for….
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My @Chicagotribune look at plans for South Works’ IQMP.
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Much of the Illinois quantum park will essentially be akin to a shipping center and may not be the best of neighbors on Chicago’s lakefront.
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List of federal properties to be sold include two-thirds of Mies van der Rohe-designed Federal Center: the John C. Kluczynski Federal Building and the US Post Office. Presumably includes the Calder that's in the plaza between them.
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The government’s list of “non-core” assets totals almost 80 million square feet of commercial space across 47 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico.
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My @chicagotribune look at the evolving Shedd Aquarium:.
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Additions and renovations to Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, including a new exhibit, have been bold and modest.
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Chicago’s parking garages, including the new one at ORD Terminal 5. Today’s @tribune column:.
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The new Terminal 5 parking garage at O’Hare International Airport earns a place in Chicago’s long history of parking and architecture.
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My @chicagotribune look at the 1901 Project for the Near West Side:.
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There needs to be clarification about how these extensive new “parks” in the plans to redevelop the area around the United Center will operate.
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RIP, Bob Uecker. I was fortunate to interview the Milwaukee legend for @WBEZLive in 2003.
Beloved Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker has died
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