Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco
It only took a cataclysmic earthquake, a catastrophic fire, and a sensational murder on the other side of the country for a woman to get the commission for San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel.
Irving Park Reformed Church, Chicago
The first church in Irving Park, highway construction in the 1950s just missed the old Irving Park Reformed Church in the 1950s, but the Kennedy
Kohl & Madden Ink Company Plant, Chicago
An Art Moderne factory turned liquor store feels like an especially Chicago version of adaptive reuse.
M & C Motors, 3200 W. Foster, Chicago
A tidy example of the early postwar modernism that characterized commercial architecture in Chicago’s outermost neighborhoods that's in better shape than the discontinued car brands it initially sold…but only barely.
YMCA, Cortland Street, Jackson, Michigan
Buildings razed for parking lots, surprising survivors, and art as a revitalization tool–the story of Jackson's old Cortland Street YMCA.