CHICAGO | Recent projects and construction (non-high rise)

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Starting this new thread everything on new construction in Chicagoland (non-high rise). Please post all new construction photo updates here.


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[Inspector Urbano]

I love Park Ridge IL !!

[desertpunk]

Oh good, pictures are fixed. Good looking stuff going on in the Big City!

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[skyduster]

Originally Posted by Inspector Urbano

I love Park Ridge IL !!

huh?!

All of these 3/4-story residential buildings posted by Gradostroy look very Lincoln Park, and perhaps Wicker Park or Ukrainian Village.

As far as suburbs:

Park Ridge's center ("Uptown") and some of its other commercial thoroughfares (like the area around Talcott and Devon Avenues) are quite charming. In the neighborhoods just north of Uptown there's also some incredible mansions. But most of Park Ridge is your usual boring 50s/60s-style suburban houses, with some of those homes torn down 1995-2008 and replaced with McMansions, including an entire tacky faux-Victorian section on Canfield between Higgins and Talcott.

When it comes to suburban architecture, Oak Park and River Forest can't be beat.

Anyways...great to see traditional architecture making a comeback in Chicago; it's been going on for years now, and it carries on. On the homes in the very first picture: I'm just not too crazy about that diagonal setback on the bottom left of the buildings. But they're otherwise beautiful homes. The home in the second picture, the one on the right, is just lovely. A playful combination of bauhaus and traditional architecture; and it worked very well, IMO. And kudos on the exposed brick: a trademark of traditional American urban architecture. The 1st and 2nd pictures all show great examples of fine exposed brick. The cylindrical building under construction in the 3rd picture looks interesting. I'm curious if it'll be traditional or more modernist.

[untitledreality]

This thread contains some of the most hideous new construction in Chicago I have seen in recent years. Cheap split face, disproportional facades, contextual issues, lazy faux historicism and just plain bad contemporary works.

Vomit.

[skyduster]

The first picture, and the building on the right in the second picture, are quite good, IMO.

In the 3rd picture, the buildings that are to the right of the under-constriction cylindrical building, are indeed awful. The 4th picture tries too hard (and misses the mark...love the door, though, but the rest fails), the 5th and 6th ones are "eh".

IMO, these pictures don't accurately illustrate the overall historical revival in Chicago that's been going on over the past 15+ years. There are many more historical-revival buildings not pictured here that are very good. But yes, there's also a lot of god-awful pseudo-historical ones. It seems, though, that since this movement began, the general trend has been that they are getting better.

[desertpunk]

Burberry store shines on the Magnificent Mile

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Burberry Store by archidose, on Flickr

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Burberry Store by archidose, on Flickr