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Akron Art Museum

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Filed under: architecture, arts, downtown

The new 63,300 square foot John S. and James L. Knight Building connects with the museum’s existing 1899 Building, a 21,000 square foot Renaissance revival structure, which originally served as the downtown Akron Post Office. The expansion dramatically increases the museum’s ability to originate and present special exhibitions and display major, rarely seen works of […]

Bertrand Goldberg’s Elgin buildings

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Filed under: arts, history

Anybody who’s been to Chicago is familiar with Bertrand Goldberg’s Marina City which resembles two giant corncobs–that’s meant to be descriptive not unflattering. They are among Chicago’s most recognizable landmarks. I even know somebody who went out there to paint them while they were still under construction. The Chicago Tribune came out with three […]

An Elgin concert hall

Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Filed under: arts, citycouncil, downtown

Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal - britannica.com
If it looks like this, I won’t complain.
One of the reasons that I’ve found it hard to support an Elgin concert hall is that I have a sense of what kind of building they might build. One of the papers reported sometime last year or maybe the previous […]

Artspace meeting tonight

Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Filed under: arts, downtown

This is a reminder for you to attend the public input meeting for Artspace>Elgin, which would provide affordable rental space in Elgin in which artists could live and work. The meeting is tonight, Thursday, March 6th at the Centre’s Heritage Ballroom.
I have some questions myself. I’m a little confused as to whether this […]