You have to wonder will Walmart one day use its billions and tremendous procurement power to do two things that would help stop it from getting border-checked when it comes seeking to build a new store: Either build the town itself, then put in the Walmart, or create a package with so many
(photo by Lee Bey)Liberty Bank at Fullerton & Kedzie Milwaukee caught my eye a day or two ago--and it wasn't the architecture. It was the typeface above. Rounded, modern, kinda 1970s funky.
(photo by Lee Bey) A reader emailed me a day after my post on the mid-century modern Pride Cleaners on 79th Street in March. "Check out Trim n Tidy Cleaners on Higgins if you get a chance," he said. Over the weekend, I got the chance.
(photo by Lee Bey) I just noticed--really noticed--Trump Tower in recent weeks.It's not that I hadn't been aware of the building. I had been. Acutely so.
(photo by Lee Bey) A few months ago, I watched an architecture jury lavish praise on an out-of-town adaptive reuse project that turned an old factory into residences.
