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You know that giant hole at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive where the Spire was supposed to rise and tower over the city? Well don't expect it to be back-filled just yet. Despite construction being halted a year ago and the developer being sued this past summer, Spire architect Santiago Calatrava says the project is not dead. He asked for "patience" about the Spire -- he pointed out that one of his projects took 13 years to come to completion. The Spire's developer, Garrett Kelleher, also told the Trib's Blair Kamin that people are still showing up at the sales center, and the company recently arranged for new financing. [Trib]

Architect Santiago Calatrava has stopped work on the Chicago Spire skyscraper and filed a lien against Dublin-based developer Shelbourne Development Ltd., claiming he's owed $11.34 million in work on the planned 2,000 foot tall building. [Cago Real Estate Daily]

Here’s what we missed while we were watching loud, fast planes and asthmatic midgets: Bailiwick Rep is working to expand their audience with Hogwash, a family friendly improv show, playing Saturday afternoons through November 17, and a special “Naked Night” performance of Barenaked Lads September 7 where performers and audience alike will bare it all. And it’s for a good cause. (link is NSFW, more or less) As foundation work commences for the Chicago Spire,...

Four international club teams are slated to match up this Friday and Sunday in the first ever Chicago Trophy Soccer Tournament at Soldier Field. Each team will play two matches and be awarded three points for a win and bonus points for goals to determine who gets to take home the Chicago Trophy, which was designed by Santiago Calatrava the Spanish Architect who also designed the Chicago Spire. The teams were selected to try and...

Thursday, the controversial Chicago Spire received approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, bringing it one step closer to a reality on the Chicago skyline. The design has continued to change from the original Fordham Spire's pyramid like shape topped with a TV tower, to a flat top twizzler, and finally onto its current rounded top incarnation. The design shown to the Plan Commission was slightly different than the one shown last month to Streeterville residents....

DuSable Park should have its own place in history as a figure of speech. Example: “Sure, I’ll call you back, when DuSable Park is finished”. DuSable was originally discussed in 1988. Wrigley got lights, the Bears lost to the 49ers in the NFC Championship, Daley was a year away from being mayor, and DuSable Park was only going to cost $1.2 million. Today, estimates put the completion of DuSable park at around $12 million,...

Architect Santiago Calatrava and developer Garrett Kelleher are making the rounds, looking to generate buzz for their newly redesigned Drill Bit on the Lake. The Chicago Spire (nee Calatrava Spire) as planned will be exceedingly thin and stand around 2,000 feet tall (160 stories): the Manute Bol of skyscrapers. When completed (or if, if you ask Donald “you’re fired” Trump), it could be the world’s tallest, eclipsing Taipei 101 and NYC’s planned Freedom Tower. The...

A-spire-ing Tower?

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,...

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...

Chicagoist leapt for joy a while back when we heard that superstar architect Santiago Calatrava was working on Lake Shore Drive residential highrises - but we had no idea just how high those rises would be. The Fordham Company, the developer of high-end residential real estate properties that is pushing this project forward, is expected to announce today a proposed $500 million building that would be the country's tallest, nearing 1,500 feet at its habitable...

Chicago's unfortunate architectural lull, which bored us all into oblivion with a spate of new, lifeless residential highrises during the late '90s, finally seems to be coming to an end. First we got our Frank Gehry bandshell and our Rem Koolhaas campus center, and now this: it looks like superstar Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava may be bringing his genius to a residential development on North Lake Shore Drive.