Preservation Futures
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Research, action, and design for the past, present, and future 💁🏼♀️💁🏻♂️
Chicago, IL
Joined September 2019
Not pulling any punches: “when a building is demolished it represents a systemic communal failure” writes @EdwardKeegan in today’s @chicagotribune!.
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RT @LeighGiangreco: Why is there such disdain for the postmodern color scheme that made the Thompson Center unique in the first place? Why….
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The rendering obtained by the Sun-Times is the first look Google has provided of its vision for the remade interior of the Helmut Jahn-designed icon.
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"A girl in a flowing white dress floating gracefully into a dreamy sky filled with stars and colorful clouds at sunset.". Try Grok Imagine, free for a limited time:.
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RT @tnovsa: Congratulations to @BlackInHistPres member @leilawills_ of the Historical Preservation Society of the Illinois Chapter of the B….
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A new heritage trail in Illinois honors the positive contributions of the Black Panther Party with historical markers.
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Glad to see the light standards and convenience stairs are being retained—it will make restoration much easier!
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RT @chicagotribune: In the coming months, commemorative plaques will be placed outside 12 sites in Chicago and one in Peoria associated wit….
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A self-guided online tour is in the works for the 12 sites in Chicago and one in Peoria that are listed on the inaugural trail.
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The first 12 plaques commemorating National Register of Historic Places recognition for sites on the Black Panther Party Heritage Trail in Illinois unveiled today at 1512 S Pulaski, site of the first Free Breakfast Program in 1969
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RT @maxeschavez: Don Tosi House (1949) by Don Tosi. At the time of this home’s construction, Tosi was working for Bruce Goff. Because the 2….
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Preservation goes both ways: we have to protect buildings against demolition or decay; and we have to protect the environment against buildings.
McCormick Place Lakeside Center completes bird-safe glass project in time for fall migration - Chicago Sun-Times
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RT @zachmortice: It’s @blaservations in @MASContext with the People’s History of Historic Preservation in Chicago!
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For the second anniversary of Elizabeth Blasius’s monthly column, she shares a history of preservation in Chicago, beginning with its origins in the…
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RT @maxeschavez: Bar Sotto is temporarily occupying the former Vivere restaurant (1990) designed by Jordan Mozer and the space is perfectly….
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RT @docomomoChicago: Docomomo Chicago proud to announce board member Elizabeth Blasius's virtual upcoming lecture:.Baxter Travenol: Chicag….
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RT @BlockClubCHI: An artist created a "wooden quilt" from pieces of Emmett Till’s South Side home. .
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RT @POTUS: Imagine the courage it took to say: Let them see. 69 years since the murder of Emmett Till, we reflect on our nation’s reckonin….
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Stanley Tigerman was a master of achieving the most with the least. Here we are checking out the back of the facade of the 60 E. Lake garage
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RT @HeidiStevens13: On the occassion of the Chicago Tribune's Freedom Center being demolished to make way for a Bally's casino, indulge me….
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Tonight’s summer storms were the perfect backdrop for @blaservations’s searing powerful critique of the historiography of the Edith Farnsworth House—not to mention Dirk Lohan’s dramatic high water photos!
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