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 Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 8:27 am Post subject: Gropius buildings face destruction by City of Chicago... |
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From Cityscapes in the AW blog center...
With Chicago's Olympic bid dead, it's a whole new ballgame-Reese landmarks must be spared
http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/blogs/link.php?id=44914
| Blair Kamin wrote: | It made little sense, when Chicago was vying to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, to tear down all but one of the historic buildings at the prospective Olympic Village. It makes even less sense now that the city's Olympic bid has failed.
Memo to Mayor Richard Daley: Call off the bulldozers now -- or you will be committing an act of cultural vandalism that will undo whatever public relations points Chicago scored before Friday's debacle in Copenhagen.
The threatened buildings were co-planned and co-designed by Walter Gropius, one of the 20th century's most influential architects and the founder of the Bauhaus design school in pre-World War II Germany. Their spam forms and crisply projecting sunshades did more than transplant the signature Bauhaus style to the South Side of Chicago. With them came the Bauhaus' almost-naive faith that new designs would lead to better living -- and better healing.... |
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