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Historic Preservation

Ferris Bueller House Tops Endangered Structures List (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Ferris Bueller Garage, Ferris Bueller Home, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Rose House, Architectural Preservation, Ferris Bueller House, Video, Ferris Bueller House for Sale, Chicago Preservation, Ferris Bueller Cameron's House, Landmarks Illinois, Historic Preservation, Chicago News

The Highland Park house made famous in Ferris Bueller's Day Off tops a list of endangered historic structures in Chicago released Wednesday by non-pro...

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Village Green: It's Time for a Sustainable Revitalization Agenda for Smaller Cities

F. Kaid Benfield | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Community, Infrastructure, Sustainability, Historic Preservation, Neighborhoods, Smart Growth, Cities, Green News
F. Kaid Benfield

Most small New England cities were once booming industrial centers, but over time they became subject to considerable disinvestment in the form of plant closings, job losses, weakened civic infrastructure, and shrinking tax bases.

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UNESCO: Bablyon Historic Site Damaged By US In Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: World Heritage, Iraq Archaeology, Babylon, US Damage, World Heritage Sites, US in Iraq, US Troops, Iraq History, Unesco, Bablyon Historic Site, Historic City, Historic Iraq Site, Historic Preservation, Historic Iraq Site of Bablyon, Iraq Architecture, Iraq, Bablyon, War Wire, World News

BAGHDAD — Iraq's U.S.-led invaders inflicted serious damage on Babylon, driving heavy machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and diggi...

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Greenwich Village To Become Historic Landmark

New York Post | TOM TOPOUSIS | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

Read More: Greenwich Village, Historic Greenwich Village, Historic Preservation, New York, Historic Landmark, New York News

The times, they are a changin' -- so much so that city preservationists are moving today to landmark a swath of Greenwich Village that was once home ...

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Tribune Architecture Critic Breaks With Preservationists: Threatened Mies IIT Building 'Utterly Dispensable'

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 06.07.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Blair Kamin, Historic Preservation, Mies Test Cell, Illinois Institute of Technology, Mies Van Der Rohe, Mies Iit Buildings, Mies Gunnery, Chicago News

You'd never suspect that a great architect shaped the clunky brick box at the corner of 35th and Federal Streets. But the master of the steel-and-glas...

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Going, Going, Gone? Will Chicago Tear Down Buildings by Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius?

Edward Lifson | Posted 05.23.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michael Reese Hospital Olympic Village, Iit, Historic Preservation, Walter Gropius, Mies Van Der Rohe, Chicago Architecture, Olympics, Mayor Daley, Chicago Preservation, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

The best way to promote sustainable, environmentally responsible architecture is to adaptively reuse buildings where possible. The Michael Reese campus is the perfect place.

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City Appealing Ruling Against Landmark Law To State Supreme Court

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 04.16.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Landmarks Law, Historic Preservation, Chicago Landmark Law Appeal, Chicago Landmark Law Ruling, Chicago Architecture Preservation, Chicago News

Firing back at an appellate court decision which ruled that Chicago's landmark law is unconstitutionally vague, the city has appealed the decision to ...

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Chicago Landmarks Law Overturned, Hundreds Of Historic Buildings In Jeopardy

Chicago Real Estate Daily | Thomas A. Corfman | Posted 03.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Commission on Chicago Landmarks, Chicago Preservation Ruling, Chicago Landmarks Law, Chicago Landmarks Ordinance, Historic Preservation, Chicago Preservation, Chicago News

An Illinois appellate court has struck down the city of Chicago's landmarks ordinance, saying it is unconstitutionally vague, putting in jeopardy the ...

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Will We Lose Another Frank Lloyd Wright House?

Edward Lifson | Posted 10.23.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Architecture, Historic Preservation, Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago Architecture, Endangered Illinois Buildings, Ravine Bluffs, Landmarks Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright Ravine Bluffs, Illinois Preservation, Chicago News
Edward Lifson

Frank Lloyd Wright is perhaps the greatest artist America has ever produced, in any medium. Up there with Louis Armstrong and Walt Whitman and Martha Graham. A creator of beautiful worlds. We are the stewards of his work. We are lucky to have it around us. Preserve it so when we need it, it's there.

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Local Landmarks On Endangered Buildings List

Chicago Tribune | Steve Schmadeke | Posted 10.19.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Architectural Preservation, Prentice Hospital, Elgin Mental Health Center, Chicago Architecture, Endangered Buildings, Chicago Preservation, William F. Ross House, Landmarks Illinois, Castle Car Wash, Historic Preservation, Frank Lloyd Wright, Prentice Women's Hospital, Chicago News

The last intact Route 66 filling station in Chicago, an Evanston mansion where the nation's 30th vice president once lived and a one-room school house...

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