Podcast appearances and mentions of blair kamin

Rick Kogan is joined by former Tribune pals Blair Kamin and Barbara Mahany to talk about their new books, Blair's “Who Is This City For?” and Barb's “The Book of Nature.”

Nowhere in the world celebrates Modernism better than Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California. Every February, they have a weeklong architecture and design festival, which actually lasts 11 days,  and USModernist Radio was there interviewing keynote speakers plus special guests at the USModernist compound, aka poolside at the hip Hotel Skylark. Our 2023 coverage kicks off with architecture critic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Blair Kamin. Now retired from the Tribune, his latest book project, Who Is the City For?, pairs a selection of his essays about the inequities in Chicago's built environment with photographs by past podcast guest Lee Bey.  Later on, from a Bill Krisel house in Palm Springs, musical guest Cheryl Bentyne of the Manhattan Transfer, famous for songs like Operator and Boy From New York City.  They've won 10 Grammys, and this year, they're on their 50th anniversary and final world tour.

Kicking off things for 2023 is Lee Bey, Chicago architecture critic,  photographer for the new book Who Is the City For? with Blair Kamin, and the author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side.  Later on, we turn up the heat with grillmaster Greg Sages, also the Executive Director of The Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. 

Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to discuss his new book “Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago.” Blair talks about his views on the Obama Presidential Center, why the concept of equity is one of the key issues in the book, if he believes the […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to discuss his new book “Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago.” Blair talks about his views on the Obama Presidential Center, why the concept of equity is one of the key issues in the book, if he believes the […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to discuss his new book “Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago.” Blair talks about his views on the Obama Presidential Center, why the concept of equity is one of the key issues in the book, if he believes the […]

Patti's guests today are Blair Kamin, author of “Who Is the City For?, and Derek O. Hanley, author of "Photos from the Front Lines."

Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Blair Kamin has long informed and delighted readers with his illuminating commentary. Kamin's newest collection, Who Is the City For?, does more than gather fifty-five of his most notable Chicago Tribune columns from the past decade: it pairs his words with striking new images by photographer and architecture critic Lee Bey, Kamin's former rival at the Chicago Sun-Times. Listen to the Unfrozen interview with Kamin, and understand why “city planning is not a game of 2D checkers but of 3D chess.” Intro/Outro: “Chicago” by Benny Goodman Discussed: INVEST South/West Maurice Cox, Chicago Planning Commissioner The pandemic's effect on rapid urbanization Spread of crime from poor to rich neighborhoods The city's not “out of control,” but it is in need of reinvention Lower Manhattan's adaptive reuse of older skyscrapers does present a template Decentralization of the central business district, ex: McDonald's HQ in the Fulton Market Prospects for Lincoln Yards and The 78 – shades of Cityfront Center? The Chicago Spire pit / 400 N Lake Shore Drive replacement project DuSable Park and the Riverwalk “We have to think of the city not as a 2D checkers game but a 3D chess game.” Buffalo Bayou Park extension project, Houston O'Hare Global Terminal Chicago River Boathouses AIA design competition for the next bungalow Committee on Design “Plop” architecture 1611 W Division – look ma, no parking! Red Line South extension “There are those who say ‘who gets what' is a tired trope of architectural criticism – let me vehemently disagree.” Chicago as a participant in global economic and architectural design exchange Chicago Architecture Biennial The City that Works > The City that Plays Investment of Chinese capital in St. Regis Tower Cloud Gate Crown Fountain

Author of “Who Is The City For?“, Blair Kamin, joins Bob Sirott to discussed what he included in his book, his early competition with Lee Bay, and what areas of the city should be refreshed. He also talks about what he thinks is one of Chicago’s greatest architectural achievements and his process for critiquing architecture.

Sprawling, spread-out Houston is a different kind of city than Chicago or New York, so we need to think differently about our parks. Our guest, Pulitzer-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin, author of the new book "Who Is the City For?", says that transforming Houston's park system won't be easy — but he's impressed by what he's seen so far.  Find out more about Houston's ParkScore (from the Trust for Public Land). For more great Houston content, make sure you subscribe to our morning newsletter, Hey Houston. You can also keep up with us day-by-day on Twitter and Instagram Let us know your Houston hot takes! Leave us a voicemail or text us at +1 713-489-6972 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago Tribune Columnist Eric Zorn joins John Williams to share why he decided to take a buyout, following Heidi Stevens, Mary Schmich, Blair Kamin, Phil Vettel and several more.

Chicago Tribune Columnist Eric Zorn joins John Williams to share why he decided to take a buyout, following Heidi Stevens, Mary Schmich, Blair Kamin, Phil Vettel and several more.

 Blair Kamin, one of the world’s leading architecture critics, and longtime Chicago Tribune architecture critic, joined Bob Sirott to talk about the current state of architecture criticism, the completion of the St. Regis building, (formerly Wanda Vista Tower) and more.

Renowned architecture critic Blair Kamin is leaving the Chicago Tribune after 33 years. He joins Reset to reflect on his prolific career and discuss the future of the journalism industry.

Along with architecture critic Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune restaurant critic Phil Vettel joins John Williams to share what contributed to his decision to take a buyout. He also outlines his favorite meal, and no-so-great experience while dining as the Chicago dining critic. Other Tribune greats who took buyouts starting in 2020 include its music critic, […]

Along with architecture critic Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune restaurant critic Phil Vettel joins John Williams to share what contributed to his decision to take a buyout. He also outlines his favorite meal, and no-so-great experience while dining as the Chicago dining critic. Other Tribune greats who took buyouts starting in 2020 include its music critic, […]

Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to share details of his 33 years writing for the Chicago Tribune, days before his last article is published. He also describes why he decided to leave and what he plans next.

Chicago Tribune Architecture Critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to share details of his 33 years writing for the Chicago Tribune, days before his last article is published. He also describes why he decided to leave and what he plans next.

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to talk about the new Vista Tower, to be renamed the St. Regis. It’s designed by Belvidere native Jeanne Gang.

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin joins John Williams to talk about the new Vista Tower, to be renamed the St. Regis. It’s designed by Belvidere native Jeanne Gang.

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. This week’s news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com ESCALATORS FIGURE BIG IN GANG-DESIGNED O’HARE TERMINAL Wood-covered escalators are an "architectural element [celebrating] movement and spatial excitement" in Chicago architect Jeanne Gang's winning design for Global Terminal, which will replace Terminal 2 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. Scheduled to open in 2028 and drawing inspiration from the city's municipal symbol and the meeting of the Chicago River's branches with its “Y” shape, the terminal designed by Gang and her team — Studio ORD Joint Venture Partners — has departing passengers riding escalators up to a security and check-in floor and down to gate level. Forming an "architectural plateau," the departure level for domestic and international travelers would overlook a tree-lined atrium with skylights. Despite Tribune columnist Blair Kamin criticizing the design for being too reliant on escalators, the city stated there is room for adjustments, and the final design will meet or exceed Americans with Disabilities Act requirements. Image credit: Jeanne Gang and Studio ORD Joint Venture Partners To read the full transcript of today's podcast, visit: elevatorworld.com/news Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes│Google Play|SoundCloud│Stitcher│TuneIn

Chicago’s O’Hare Airport is on the verge of an $8.5 billion expansion project. But Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin believes the process isn’t nearly as transparent as it should be. Plus journalist Kim Bellware takes us inside the daily lives of the people who make Chicago move-CTA employees.

Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, has had a tempestuous relationship with Donald Trump for years. As a developer working in Chicago, Trump's buildings have been critiqued by Kamin, and as often happens when Trump is criticized, he does not shy away from firing back personal attacks—calling him "dopey" and "a lightweight" when Kamin decried the developer's decision to slap a 20-foot-tall "TRUMP" sign on his downtown Chicago hotel. But instances like the "sign feud" aside, Kamin has also experienced Trump's kinder side, and can attest to the complex (to say the least) personality of the business man both before and after his profoundly strange pivot onto the national political stage.  We invited Kamin on the podcast to discuss his relationship with the developer-candidate, how it's impacted his role as a critic, and how the 2016 campaign has invoked issues related to the built environment (or not).

In every city in the world there is a viewing platform where you can gaze down upon the place from on-high. But why do we like to build tall and be high – what is it about standing tall and defying gravity that matters so much? Are Skyscrapers simply about vanity or are there practical and even spiritual reasons why we want to build so high? Mike Williams ventures up the Shard, the tallest building in London, with its architect Renzo Piano. He talks to Blair Kamin, Architecture Critic at the Chicago Tribune – the city that brought us the skyscraper, as well as experts Daniel Safarik, from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat and Dr. Phillip Oldfield, from the University of Nottingham. Produced by Wesley Stephenson (Photo: The Sears Tower rises above the skyline in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Blair Kamin and the Chicago Children's Museum--the Stranded in the Loop brigade--and an oversexed summer in one easy lesson.