Communications
Issues 29 of CAC@Home and CAC@Home: Members’ Edition were deployed Jan 26.
Other recent, targeted email outreach includes the start of a multitouch campaign toward tour operators and concierges.
Press outlets received a release regarding the 2021 Vincent Scully Masterclass Series: See Like an Architect, available here as a Word document.
The 2021 Scully Series webpage is handily accessible via the shortlink architecture.org/scully.
Earned Media
Czech websites Ekolist, Stavba, SkyPaper, and Expats.cz covered Virtual City Walks: International Edition, boosting the signal of direct outreach via AAO.
ArchDaily published Design Dialogues: Healthy Buildings and the Workplace.
Bustler published Virtual City Walks: International Edition.
Chicago Star Media covered the “Educate and Skate” program at Maggie Daley Park, in which the CAC participates on Feb 24 with a specially curated YouTube playlist.
Blogarama included the CAC on its list of Chicago’s best walking tours.
Grunge.com credited the CAC in its article about Ferris wheels.
Leanne Star, a CAC docent, CAC Live program host, and acquaintance of mine for nearly a decade, passed away on Jan 23. She will be remembered and missed by many including her fellow Chicago Now blogger Marianne Goss, who published a lovely remembrance of Leanne.
PS:
Did you miss the US Travel Association’s recent “State of the Travel Industry” summit? A transcript and video archive are available here. “Is suburban high-rise development in the US good enough?” Find out during a free CTBUH webinar, Feb 4 at 4pm. Speaking of webinars, registration is now open for “Terra Cotta Construction and Restoration,” Feb 18 from Landmarks Illinois and the International Masonry Institute. The Field Foundation of Illinois announced its 2021 grantees. The City of Chicago issued another “Our 77” newsletter, which includes a terrific video by Prime 312 about ARC’s revitalization work in Chatham. The south plaza at Aon Center is getting an update.
Blair Kamin gave another couple of exit interviews, to Martin Pedersen for Common Edge and to Whet Moser for Chicago magazine. (The CAC will soon announce and open registration for a Feb 25 online program featuring Kamin in conversation with IIT College of Architecture dean Reed Kroloff.) The CTA released imagery of new Red Line stations in Edgewater and Uptown while the State of Illinois announced plans to relocate 1K+ employees from the Thompson Center to 555 West Monroe. Cape Horn Illustration is now Wonder City Studio.
In New Orleans, COVID-conscious “house floats” are replacing Mardi Gras parades this year. In Taipei, the twisting Tao Zhu Yin Yuan tower designed by Vincent Callebaut, is almost complete. In Casablanca, the Finance City Tower marks Morphosis’ first built project in Africa. In Los Angeles, a 232-bed development for people who are homeless was completed in under five months. In Paris, renovations are coming to the Louvre and Centre Pompidou. In Durham, Paul Rudolph’s Burroughs Wellcome Building is coming down. In Manhattan, Foster + Partners’ Penn 15 tower is going up, the firm’s 425 Park Avenue is ready for occupancy, and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s midtown bus terminal will finally get less terrible.
Elizabeth Blasius wrote in The Architect’s Newspaper about “what Chicago loses when it loses an architecture critic.” Marianela D’Aprile wrote in Common Edge that “not everything is ‘architecture.’”