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Obama Presidential Center's price tag: Almost $1 billion (opens the original)
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The Obama Presidential Center cost nearly $1 billion to build, the Obama Foundation said Saturday. The exact price tag clocks in at $909 million, which is $59 million more than the center’s previously released figure of $850 million. Obama Foundation CEO Valerie Jarrett said the increase is due to “additional amenities” added to the campus. “We ... made the campus extraordinary beyond what we had originally intended, and we [are] going to continue to do that,” she said. The amount — all privatel
Is the planned Griffin MSI 'carbuncle' a done deal? Not yet, says Chicago Park District (opens the original)
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The planned entry hall at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry — the ungainly two-story pavilion proposed for the building’s main entrance — has a critical hurdle to clear in order to get built: the Chicago Park District. That’s because the park district owns the Greek Revival architectural landmark, which sits in historic Jackson Park at 57th Street and DuSable Lake Shore Drive. “The District has not given final construction approval,” the parks agency said in a statement Thursday. The pa
Griffin MSI’s new design must go back to the drawing board: ‘Carbuncle in the park’ (opens the original)
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The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is one of those buildings that just looks good from all sides and angles — graced with perfect siting, courtesy of Daniel Burnham, and a great Greek Revival design by the hand of architect Charles Atwood. The south side of the building is the winning view, of course, with that portico and the Columbia basin shimmering in front of it. But the museum’s primary elevation along 57th Street is the one everyone sees. It’s an impressive neo-classical expanse b
Chase bank shouldn't demolish its modernist Evanston branch (opens the original)
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Unless you have some business at the Chase bank at Green Bay Road and Central Street in Evanston, it’s easy to pass through the busy intersection without ever really noticing the one-story building. But the cool little brick-and-glass bank branch is worth a look — while it’s still there. JPMorgan Chase & Co wants to demolish the 47-year-old building and erect a new, smaller branch on the site. Evanston’s Historic Preservation Commission thinks the structure is valuable enough to at least conside
Urbs in horto in toto? Design contest picks proposals that would significantly green up Chicago (opens the original)
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Imagine Chicago’s commercial strips, schoolyards and vacant lots transformed into a green network of community arboreta, while the city’s 28-mile long boulevard system becomes a series of lush gathering places. Maybe, under two separate but complementary proposals that have jointly won Horizon Lines: Visions for Chicago 2025, a design competition sponsored by the influential economic development organization World Business Chicago. The group announced the winners — the Morton Arboretum and MKSK
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