This is a tale of two new West Loop high-rises and what they say about Chicago's apartment building boom, which has restored construction cranes to the skyline but has yet to give us architecture with a capital "A."
The buildings — the underwhelming Arkadia Tower in Greektown and the better-than-average JeffJack Apartments west of Union Station — are the latest products of the construction surge [...].
— chicagotribune.com
Different city, similar lament: Jeff Sheppard calls downtown Denver's new housing developments "meaningless, uninspiring". Is bland the new dogma?
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There's only so many times you can write about Mies and Jeanne Gang, right? There's less wrong with the buildings than with the media that covers it. Most buildings are supposed to be "normal." Instead of the occasional review of an expectional new building, journos now have to constantly fill in by the minute. So we get a lot of non-architectural babble...and fast paced tweets and instagrams that don't mean much at all.. writing responsibile reviews isn't what the people crave now.. they want controversy, fights, Trump showtowns, middle fingers... unfortunatley it has little to do with buildings.
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