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Old January 28th, 2008
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Default Laying into the Lancaster

From the Tribune today in a story about "clunkers" - bad architecture.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...,7778342.story

"Lakeshore East, has ... aesthetic problems as Jim Loewenberg, the chief and co-developer of the widely panned concrete hulks in River North, strives to do better -- and succeeds, but only so much."

"....ringing the park are several mediocre Loewenberg-designed high-rises such as Lancaster, a 30-story condo tower whose bowing expanses of glass have a nervous, jittery look, like the mirror-glass towers in the opening credits of the old TV show "Dallas." All glass has distortions. But this glass looks, to some eyes, like it shattered.

Once, when seeing the Lancaster from afar, Chicago architect Charles Hasbrouck said to himself: "My God, they've had some kind of accident over there."

I never thought the Lancaster was that bad! We probably would have bought a condo there if it wasn't for the lack of amenities.
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