Ken Tanaka
02-19-2005, 19:55
Chicago's Sun-Times Building (newspaper) was never designated a landmark. It was not an architectural masterpiece. It wasn't even very attractive. But in its relatively brief existence next to the Wrigley Building along the Chicago River it was unquestionably a prominent landmark to many generations of residents and tourists. If you've ever visited downtown Chicago with a camera chances are that you have at least one snapshot including the building.
More to the subject of this venue, some of Chicago's best photojournalists (http://www.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/realchicago/index.html) called this building their home base.
The Sun-Times Building, seen here through the lower deck of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is being demolished to make way for a "Trump Tower" (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=102119), a typically garish, character-free Trump edifice housing breathtakingly expensive condominiums.
I am not a person who routinely bemoans the displacement of the old for the new. But, having spent most of my life in Chicago (not the suburbs of Chicago...the REAL Chicago) I will miss this homely building each time I cross the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
http://cakonos.image.pbase.com/image/39939366.jpg
Leica M7
Leica Summilux 90mm f/2.0
Kodak BW400CN
More to the subject of this venue, some of Chicago's best photojournalists (http://www.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/realchicago/index.html) called this building their home base.
The Sun-Times Building, seen here through the lower deck of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, is being demolished to make way for a "Trump Tower" (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=102119), a typically garish, character-free Trump edifice housing breathtakingly expensive condominiums.
I am not a person who routinely bemoans the displacement of the old for the new. But, having spent most of my life in Chicago (not the suburbs of Chicago...the REAL Chicago) I will miss this homely building each time I cross the Michigan Avenue Bridge.
http://cakonos.image.pbase.com/image/39939366.jpg
Leica M7
Leica Summilux 90mm f/2.0
Kodak BW400CN