around hillard street
While returning to the site today to retake some photos for our site study collage, I drove around the Sweet Auburn area that’s just north of our site. Hillard Street in particular had some really great views of the city’s skyline, being almost exactly perpendicular of the Peachtree ridge. So I wove my way through … Read more
three of my favorite things
In our first full day in Chicago, two things really struck me, actually maybe three. One major one was the incredible level of density of this city. Everything is vertical, residential single family, gas stations, restaurants, even churches look like skyscrapers. The streets are kept clean and clutter free through the highly effective use of … Read more
who you gonna call?
So when you have a city, with great housing stock, an impressive river front, and a well preserved downtown but you don’t see any people . . . what do you do? Design a new museum? Zone for more residential? Build a new live/work development? as an architect, a planner, a developer . . . … Read more
