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NEWH Stuff Happening In Chicago

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So what’s the latest news in the Hospitality Industry? The Chicago Chapter of The Hospitality Industry Network (NEWH) is hosting its first ever Regional Trade Show on October 26, 2011 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers. “We start the day with two CEU presentations and then during the trade show you can meet over 100... Read more »
By Lira,
October 19, 2011 at 2:31 pm
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Loving Architect Barbie at Frank Lloyd Wright's Home & Studio

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When architect Barbie was introduced as Mattel’s Career of the Year for 2011 during the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention in New Orleans, it elicited both positive and negative reactions from the industry. I recently took this doll on a trip to Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin and used the adventure to share... Read more »
By Lira,
October 11, 2011 at 11:10 am
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Chicago Artists Month show architects doing other things

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Chicago architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said, “The mother art is architecture.” Out of this art are several offsprings of artistic expression that richly contribute to the vibrancy of communities. Architecture, along with its allied arts, feed off of each other’s creativity. The Chicago Women In Architecture (CWA) will showcase this multi-faceted artistry of its... Read more »
By Lira,
September 18, 2011 at 3:21 pm
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Archiflix

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Film and architecture has an affinity that architects in history have time and time again attempted to project on screen. Architect Charles and Ray Eames used film as a likely vessel for their ideas. In Powers of Ten, it “takes us on an adventure in magnitudes.” They chose a fitting starting point at a lakeside... Read more »
By Lira,
April 10, 2011 at 4:26 pm
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NEWH Kid On The Hotel Block

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The transient nature of hotel guests, whether traveling for business or pleasure, has its own quirks making them like new kids on the block in a given time and place. In the River North neighborhood of Chicago, a brand new luxury boutique hotel by Kimpton opened its “art in motion” doors to welcome savvy travelers... Read more »
By Lira,
March 17, 2011 at 10:39 pm
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Epic Party In Icon-ic Building

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This weekend, the Chicago Loop’s first skyscraper, the Inland Steel Building, became the stage for an epic event celebrating design, hosted by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. True to design form, a party where artists, fashionistas, furniture designers, and architects are thrown in the mix amid the raw space, mood lighting, sweeping views of the Loop... Read more »
By Lira,
March 13, 2011 at 1:03 pm
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Pastry Puffing Out Architecture

During a recent screening of the documentary Kings of Pastry at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago’s theater district, I had the pleasure of asking one of its leading characters, Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer from where his design sources come. He tells me he’s a big fan of the work of glass artist Dale Chihuly... Read more »
By Lira,
January 16, 2011 at 3:02 pm
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Theater At Its Quirkiest

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Now that Thanksgiving is over, we know that after Black Friday, it’s downhill from here on out. Next thing you know Christmas has crept up on you. We end yet another season of Fall and begin a new season of Winter. This changing of seasons was the theme of Redmoon Theater‘s Winter Pageant, which has... Read more »
By Lira,
November 27, 2010 at 10:40 am
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Chicago Greenbuilding Action

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This week Chicago saw a surge of nearly 30,000 people at the McCormick Place West for Greenbuild — setting a new record as the largest Greenbuild since the show started in Austin, TX in 2002. Now that the activities surrounding this event have drawn to a close, let’s look at some of great examples of... Read more »
By Lira,
November 20, 2010 at 11:45 am
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Greenbuild Leads "Generation Green"

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At the kick-off of the industry’s largest gathering of representatives from all sectors of the green building movement, we saw the events drew crowds by the thousands, from the International Forum, to the Green Jobs Summit, to the opening of the international expo. At the Opening Plenary of Greenbuild on Wednesday, a new generation was... Read more »
By Lira,
November 17, 2010 at 10:48 pm
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