Registration is now open for Hindsight 2020: Chicago Design and Development in a Turbulent Year, hosted by CAC President and CEO Lynn Osmond, Jan 21 at 5:30pm.
Communications
Here is the 27th issue CAC@Home: Members’ Edition.
Here are Lynn Osmond’s holiday message and accompanying video on our YouTube channel.
Here is the tail end of this winter’s annual fund campaign.
Earned Media
Architectural Record listed winter online programs through Tiffany in Chicago on Jan 27.
AIA New York / Center for Architecture listed Girls Build! Day: Sustainable Futures on Jan 9.
Bustler listed Virtual City Walks: International Edition, six consecutive Saturdays beginning Jan 23.
Style Chicago included CAFC River Cruises on its list of recommended tours.
Windy City Cosmo included CAFC River Cruises on its list of Where to Go and What to Do.
German website Marco Polo published an overview of the CAC.
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Block Club Chicago reported on the local implications of $15 billion in federal relief for live music venues. Fox Valley Developers secured $82 million for Aurora’s Old Copley Hospital campus, initiated in 1888 and added earlier this year to the National Register of Historic Places. Greenability reported on tiny homes for housing-insecure residents of Lawrence, Kansas. The tomb of Augustus in Rome will finally reopen in March 2021; 300 km southeast, archaeologists discovered a snack bar in Pompeii. Ephimera published “Unibui,” a rippling work of video art by Balkan Karisman while “Candid Candace” Jordan published a video tour of the Princess Diana Suite at the Drake Hotel. Today is the 117th anniversary of the Iroquois Theater fire.
Registration is now open for “African Americans and Chicago’s Outdoors” with Brian McCammack and Veronica Kyle, Jan 21 at 2pm. Fractured Atlas published “Arts, Nonprofit, and Advocacy Leaders Weigh in on the Future, Structural Change, and Optimism,” audio recordings of selected interviews with smart folks like Deana Haggag, Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Edgar Villanueva. Blair Kamin talked with WGN Radio’s John Williams about the year in architecture (at 12:45:00) while his colleague Alice Yin published a status update on the Obama Presidential Center. Here are the best houses of 2020, according to ArchDaily. Here are the boldest museum designs of 2020, according to Artnet. Here are the finalists for Architizer’s 2020 One Rendering Challenge. Seattle Met published a profile of skyscraper designer Julia Nagele, principal and director of architectural design at Hewitt.