This artist uses everyday household materials to create models of large, important architectural landmarks. more ›

In case you didn't notice, the Chicago skyline has been showing its Irish pride like everyone else by wearing its finest green outfits. Every few weeks a few brave individuals travel to the tops of the city to change the colors of the lights on the tops of our skyline, but how do they do it? "Magic and pixie dust," he said. Of course, Randy Stancik, building manager of the Sears Tower, was joking. It is actually a manual process, Stancik said. It takes two men about two hours to change the colors, attaching theatrical gels to the tops of the 22 spotlights that illuminate the antennae. more ›

Some fans are petitioning against advertising at Wrigley field. Jesse Jackson went to jail to get an HIV test and to encourage inmates to get one too. No surprise: Oprah likes Obama. Thousands of insane people ran up the steps of the Hancock Center this weekend. At least it was for charity! They raised a record $1.2 million to research lung disease. Sharky's Billiards says they paid for Justin Timberlake to sign autographs at... more ›

Everyone knows Chicago architecture is excellent, but we recently realized how little we know about it again when we heard about the John Hancock Center's commercial space being sold. more ›

Lakefront beach photo via scrapplequeen on Contribute. You can feel the heat radiating just by looking at this photo! more ›

Rembember the broadcast tower that was to be built near Navy Pier? The one shaped like a big ol' pair of tweezers? When Chicagoist posted on this back in October, we wondered why, if TV stations are itching to put up taller antennas than the ones they already have on the Sears Tower and the Hancock Center, they would build a freestanding broadcast tower. Why not put antennas on Santiago Calatrava's drill bit-like Fordham Spire,... more ›

Prominent architect Cesar Pelli, who designed the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, has proposed a 2,000-foot tall broadcast tower shaped like tweezers on the lakefront near Navy Pier. The tower would house antennas for local television stations to broadcast high-definition signals. If built, the tower would top Toronto's CN Tower as the world's tallest free-standing broadcast tower. The tower, under the catchy working title of "Tall Tower," wouldn't be a building at all. Instead, it would... more ›

Remember these? Milk Mustaches? Yeh, we thought they went out with the 90s too, but apparently not. In fact they're on TOUR for the 8th year in a row. The difference is that this year the Milk Mustache Mobile Tour has taken a new weight loss approach. And while weight loss methods are trendy, we've been assured that people ARE losing weight by drinking milk. This week keep your eyes open for a bunch... more ›

Among the 12 designs are two Chicago landmarks -- the John Hancock Center and Mies van der Rohe's minimalist apartment buildings at 860-880 N. Lake Shore Dr. Trib architecture critic Blair Kamin, however, takes exception to the small number of Chicago landmarks included in the set -- and he's absolutely right. If there's one this this city knows -- other than hot dogs and pizza -- it's revolutionary architecture. Blair mentions Marina City and the Farnsworth House as among those which should have been included, and Chicagoist agrees. more ›

Architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in Chicago has designed the world's largest tower. The skyscraper is called Burj Dubai and will be built in the United Arab Emirates. At over 2,000 feet tall, Burj Dubai will be almost twice the height of the John Hancock Center. more ›