Architectural Record’s website has a nice collection of museum projects that you can explore.
Here are some that stand out:
Kunsthaus Graz, $50M.
Literally popping out amid three- and four-story, 18th-century pastel-colored Baroque buildings straight from a Mozart opera, the new building is a whopper of a big, bright, blue bubble with a shiny, scaly, acrylic-glass skin that […]
Our very favorite punk rockers, the world-famous Smoking Popes fronted by Elgin’s own Josh Caterer (above), are scheduled to play Dundee’s Clearwater Theater on Friday, February 29th. Doors open at 7. Tickets are $13.
The Smoking Popes’ take on punk-pop is centered around lead singer Josh Caterer, whose obsessions with big-band records and black-and-white […]
It looks like Elgin has a new pressure group, Speak Out Against Prejudice (SOAP).
“Driving all Hispanics out of town — which AFLA (Association for Legal Americans) would like to do — would not preserve our culture. It would diminish it,” said SOAP Co-Chairman John Dalton. “We think all prejudice of all kinds — […]
Elgin’s award-winning Janus Theatre presents Marivaux’s Triumph of Love this month, running through the 24th. It sounds like a nice post-Valentine show.
In this comic confection about love triumphing over reason, a princess adopts the dress and prerogatives of a man, invades the garden of a rationalist philosopher who despises love, and wins the prince […]
