actually, i don't have a tripod
so i have to it all hand held (leaning against stuff where possible). Luckily the pictures display relatively small on this thread, but if you saw the full size, many of them are shaky around the edges (not to mention i didn't post the pics where i completely blew it,
). I really need a tripod.... but cash flow is pretty tight these days.
Glad you like them though
Chicago is a great city for taking pictures, i'm sure if you or Grid got a chance to get out there you'd come back with more than a few prize pics.
oh, here's CHUNK 3
These are mostly for examples of the urban fabric in one of the hoods to the north (around the Depaul University are and Lincoln Park), particularly examples of decent new infill. I started off pretty gung ho about documenting this, but my enthusiasm petered out pretty quickly, so i didn't record the much more happening and impressive hoods i saw later in the day (when i was exhausted and more concerned with getting home in time for supper than taking pics). Needless to say, if you go to Chicago try to walk around the Old Town Triangle, there are some real gems in that area. The most impressive infill project i saw was in the Wicker Park neighborhood (where i didn't take any pics
) it was a very very expensive looking dense large single family home that was made from top to bottom with limestone and marble, and looked liked a 2005 version of Art Deco. Very cool, and very pricey, and not in here
Much of the new infill i saw was made with high quality materials (stone or brick facades, and always with brick sides, no vinyl side and back corner cutting). Needless to say they looked very pricey. I saw some shockingly hideous infill too (with small parking lots in front in othewise urban neighborhoods) but they were in the minority.
Anyway:
This is a random side street I wandered onto off of Lincoln Park Avenue, around the DePaul U area. The two middle leftish buildings are new infill:
close up on one:
another view of the street, you can see the EL at the end of the street. There's a station a block to the left from there.
very eclectic street..... some good:
some bad:
older cheap infill on the north side of street..... like i said, mix of good and bad:
heading back to Lincoln Park Av, old on the right, new infill in the background:
close up of the infill, not the best IMO, but they atleast tried to keep the same scale and massing of the one reamaining old building:
the other way, heading south, there's the Biograph theater, where John Dillinger was shot by police. Note the scale isn't all that different from many KC hoods:
forget where this is, but it's much farther down. This is more typical of many of the more intensive non dt Chicago retail strips:
new infill in this strip:
new infill on various streets:
the white building in the middle is new:
nice side street:
KC Region is all part of the same animal regardless of state and county lines.
Think on the Regional scale.
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