Tuesday, March 9, 2010

SKYSCRAPERS ARE SCRAPING TOGETHER: Architect Bruce Graham has died. If that name escapes you, next time you are in Chicago all you need to do is look up to be reminded of his legacy.

7 comments:

  1. isaac_spaceman1:35 AM

    I think of Graham, and of SOM in general during most of its peak years, as kind of the Macy's of architecture.  SOM didn't have a program or a point of view, and it always felt to me that SOM's ambitions were either vertical or financial, rather than aesthetic.  SOM has built an awful lot of good buildings, but I can't think of a single great one. 

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  2. Heather K10:50 AM

    The view out my living room window (in an old Mies building) is dominated by the Hancock building and everyday I feel like I am living 'in the future' because of it, even on days like today when the top of the building has been swallowed by clouds.

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  3. Joseph J. Finn11:40 AM

    I've always had a very soft spot for The Daley Center, and Graham's part in creating the Museum Campus is a wonderful thing as well.

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  4. Michelle12:38 PM

    thank you for a wilco reference...  i am happy to have that song as my afternoon earworm.  (is it still an earworm if it's welcome?)

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  5. Benner2:48 PM

    Probably Lever House is the best.

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  6. Alex Gordon3:17 PM

    Thank you for noting the Wilco reference.

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  7. Michelle4:02 PM

    would be a shame for it to go unacknowledged!  

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