Related: TOP 40 BUILDINGS IN CHICAGO » Writing in The New Yorker earlier this year, Paul Goldberger offered his take on the newly opened Aqua, the undulating 82-story skyscraper at 225 North Columbus Drive. The Pulitzer Prize–winning critic loved the building—“ingenious”—and grouped its designer, Jeanne Gang of Chicago’s Studio Gang, among the city’s most … Read more
Related: TOP 40 BUILDINGS IN CHICAGO » THE LIFE AND WORK OF HARRY WEESE » JIM LOEWENBERG ON THE AQUA » Chicago did not become the birthplace of American architecture at a seminar. It won that title in the trenches, where architects engage in risk, rivalry, and plenty of insults. Louis Sullivan, in his … Read more
List Price: $1,349,900
Sale Price: $1,025,000
The Property: This 14-room Georgian home on four acres in Bannockburn was sold on December 10th for precisely the same amount it fetched ten years earlier…
List Price: $3.2 million
The Property: In the early 1990s, the psychologist Chuck Anderson and his wife, Dale Carol Anderson, an interior designer, commissioned this classically styled home for a large, triangular residential lot on what was then the western frontier of Lincoln Park—just east of the formerly industrial Clybourn Avenue. Their architect, Pappageorge Haymes, put the house on one half of the site and a walled garden on the other, with a pillared outdoor rotunda connecting the two…
After two years of trying, Chicago’s affordable-housing activists may be just a month away from tapping into the city’s supposedly vast Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds. Depending on the outcome of work that’s going on now to bridge the gap between two competing ordinances, this could mean between about $50 million to $100 million a year that would go toward buying up foreclosures and rehabbing them into affordable living units…
Halfway around the world, in Dubai, the Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building, soars 2,716 feet. Many people deserve credit for this record, but first among them is Bill Baker, a structural engineer who works out of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s office in the Santa Fe Building—a 17-story landmark that was considered pretty tall … Read more
List Price: $2.05 million
Sale Price: $2.05 million
The Property: This has been the year of the half-priced new mansion, including a February purchase in Lake Forest, an April buy in Glencoe, and my item last week about a sale in Winnetka…
List Price: $560,000
The Property: Viewed from the street, this mid-century modern home nestled into a waterfront site on the Chain O’ Lakes barely makes a visual ripple. That’s because it’s entirely oriented in the other direction: the wide expanse of glass at the back off the house provides views of a broad sweep of lawn leading down to Meyers Bay, which rolls out to Pistakee Lake.
Although most of the downtown condo game remains slow, the developers of Chicago’s Elysian are playing in a whole other ballpark. Last week alone, the sales of seven condominiums there closed for a combined $36.3 million…
List Price: $2.585 million
Sale Price: $2.335 million
The Property: A marketing executive at the newly merged United–Continental Airlines bought this new 15-room house in Winnetka for $2.335 million—just 52 percent of the $4,478,500 mortgage that the home’s developers took out on the property four years ago…
