A major new monograph has been released on the work of architectural genius Louis Sullivan. The book, titled The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan, is just that – a complete document of all of Sullivan’s over 250 building commissions, existing and demolished. The book is Published by the Richard Nickel Committee with the University of Chicago Press. Its authorship is credited to a team consisting of Aaron Siskind, John Vinci, Ward Miller and Richard Nickel. Many of the gorgeous photos in the book were taken by Nickel who died in a collapse of the Sullivan designed Chicago Stock Exchange…
Author: JFoy
Imported From Detroit was easily one of the best Super Bowl ads on Sunday night. I would have gone out on a limb and said it was THE BEST ad if it had trimmed the Eminem part at the end a bit. The ad for Chrysler (ironically a foreign-controlled company now) is a major break from mainstream car marketing in that it used down-and-out unglamorous Detroit as the basic sales pitch for the car – no mountains, no palm trees, no exotic architecture, no beautiful women – just Detroit as it is dark and grim and very compelling visually. The…
Included here are three images of the same building at dramatically different phases of its existence. It opened on West Utica between Linwood and Main Street in the 1930s as the Stratford Arms Hotel. It has a stripped down Tudor style architecture, a type of simplified historicism that was popular at that time. In a way it is an early form of branding architecture, as its name and architecture referenced each other. It is an unspectacular building but is a pleasant piece of the street fabric. By the 1980s the building was in steep decline and was abandoned after a…
This Thursday night expect to see music fans with glow sticks and bodies covered in glow paint coming from the direction of Noir nightclub. The club hosts a weekly eighteen-and-over live house and dubstep music night. The brainchild of Pat and Chris Williams, only 24 and 22 years old respectively, the music night has increased its attendance from about 25 people the first week to over 600 attendees in subsequent weeks. I spoke with Pat, a member of the alternative band Colors in the Air, who represents his brother Chris (aka RoboRoc) in his musical endeavors. Pat told me that…
MNM Presents has pulled together a strong line-up for 2011, kicking off the year by bringing world renowned electronic music producer and performer Brendan Angelides, better known as Eskmo. The San Francisco based talent is performing at Soundlab on Saturday, January 22nd, to promote his latest album “ESKMO.” Fellow Ninja Tune artist and film composer Amon Tobin has said of Angelides’ music that, “[It’s] some of the best production I’ve heard in recent times.”Angelides just recently signed with Ninja Tunes, and this critically-acclaimed album is the first project he has released with the label. In addition to this newest partnership,…