Today's Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine is largely devoted to how the city's wealthy elite are creating mega-mansion mania on a several block stretch of Orchard Street in the city's Lincoln Park area. "There goes the neighborhood," is the Trib's Blair Kamin's take. Why?
What's really going on? Is the Tribune Sunday Magazine, in the words of its editor, "indulging in real estate pornography?" Or should we all lighten up and just enjoy it? Read all about it - and see all the photos -
here.
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I wonder if these trends relate to the exodus and explusion of people from the projects--good times? I think not.
wheeler's house is great, the rest look like developer schlock....then again the actual cost of the pritzker house is the price of a high school and great salaries for teachers; or some decent low income housing, etc. At point does an architect say no? at what point does one's fidiciary responsibilities extend beyond a client's? there are many worked-over 'innovative' aspects of the pritzker house, but perhaps the most innovative thing would to have been to say no this indulgence by saying yes to redirecting this self-servance to superior ends. wheeler-kearns does noprfoit work sure, but here was a chance to innovative social practice rather than innovative another round of 'innovative' technical practice. and all we get is another expensive object.
the term non-profit, no profit, et cetera have no meaning--good or bad.. They are inert words. You can set-up your company to be non-profit and give yourself a million dollar salary. You can do no-profit work (which I wager many architects do anyway by accident) and still commit horrible crimes (aesthetic or otherwise). This is merely an advertisement for look I am working for the social good; when behind the scenes I'm secretly not.
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