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GOP congressmen on energy tour
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown House Minority Leader John Boehner and 10 fellow GOP congressmen left Washington this morning for Alaska, where they plan to spend the weekend highlighting the domestic energy production potential at settings such as the Arctic...Tags: Energy KD, Kevin McCarthy, Zoology, Energy Saving, National Government
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Building slows along with economy
Tribune criticWhen the office building boom went bust in the early 1990s, the prevailing black humor went like this: Question: "How do you find an architect?" Answer: "Hail a cab." It hasn't come to that yet. But there are dark clouds on the horizon, none more...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Santiago Calatrava, Lake Shore Drive, Marketing, Sales
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How to build today's supertalls
Tribune architecture criticA white hard-hat on his head, the earnest look of a professor on his face, Bill Baker has a ready metaphor to reveal the hidden structural logic behind Chicago's unprecedented reach into the sky. Mimicking the cores of concrete that shoot up the center of...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Health and Safety at Work, Donald Trump, Wrigley Building, Lake Shore Drive
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Developers embracing 'green' to gain an edge
Real estate long had one guiding principle: location. Now, environmental sustainability has joined the top tier of industry tenets in these times of financial turmoil and fierce competition for renters and workers. The new commercial property mantra is...Tags: Merchandise Mart, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, National Government, Property, Orland Park
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Movie review: 'The Warrior'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) Asif Kapadia's "The Warrior," which the director-writer describes as an "Eastern" (a Western set in the east), is a stunning debut film. In this remarkable fable-like work of adventure, tragedy and possible transcendence,...Tags: Mira Nair, John Ford, Akira Kurosawa, Theft, Movies
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Will Trump's tower happen?
It seems odd that the most widely anticipated architectural event in Chicago this fall is not a new building, but a demolition. Yet such is the celebrity of Donald "You're Fired" Trump these days that the pending destruction of the barge like, seven-story...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Frank Lloyd Wright, Academic Progress, Charter Schools, Chicago Sun-Times
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Playing the Trump card on spire
Tribune architecture criticDonald Trump knows a thing or two about gambling and its pitfalls. He runs a casino empire that went bankrupt. Now "The Donald" is asking Chicagoans to take a huge gamble on one of their most prized possessions: their skyline. But his lawyer and his...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Lawyers, Sears Tower, Architecture, Richard M. Daley
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Aspire to greatness
Tribune architecture criticYou had to wonder when Donald Trump's Chicago skyscraper would descend into a circus. Last week, it showed signs of doing just that when city officials and Trump sources revealed that The Donald may stretch the spire atop his tower to potentially absurd...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Sears Tower, Architecture, Chicago Board of Trade, Richard M. Daley
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One Trump reality worth all the hype
Tribune architecture criticDonald Trumps's 90-story hotel and condominium tower, which appears more real than ever after Thursday's ceremonial start of demolition on the Chicago Sun-Times Building, has more going for it than the hype associated with the reality TV show "The...Tags: Chicago Skyline, Sears Tower, Inland Steel Company, Architecture, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Trump Jr. builds on roots
Donald Trump Jr., vice president of development and acquisition for New York-based Trump Corp., visits Chicago nearly every Tuesday to check progress on the 92-story skyscraper the firm is building on the former site of the Chicago Sun-Times building. The...Tags: Construction and Property, Sunny Isles, Architecture, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida)
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