Architecture Returns To Its Roots

Residential architecture returns to it's roots in Chicago.

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October 27, 2004, 10:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"After a decade-long stretch of neo-this and neo-that apartment buildings, the city is returning to its modernist roots. A handful of new projects the tip of a residential building boom that has transformed the downtown area in recent years have reaffirmed the city's commitment to a style of architecture it basically invented in the late 19th century and refined for much of the 20th century into the 'less is more' buildings that dominate through their powerful forms and ingenious construction."

Thanks to Brett Cochrane

FULL STORY: In Downtown Chicago, Architects return to 'Less is More'

Sunday, October 24, 2004 in The New York Times

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