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How Trump Tower opened while still adding on floors
TRIBUNE REPORTERToday we launch a new feature that dissects and describes newsworthy feats and phenomena. To casual observers, the Trump International Hotel & Tower may resemble many a skyscraper in the making. But in reality, the 92-story building encompasses two...Tags: Personal Service, Donald Trump, Architecture, Trump Tower, Hotels and Accommodations
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Iron Maiden hasn't lost its luster
Mcclatchy-tribuneSinger Bruce Dickinson explains how the British metal gods still attract teenage metalheads by the tens of thousands. To keep the excitement level high, he says, "we just, you know, play a bit less." Iron Maiden's touring schedule is never very full,...Tags: Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson, Music, Natural Disasters, Disasters
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Building slows along with economy
Tribune criticWhen the office building boom went bust in the early 1990s, the prevailing black humor went like this: Question: "How do you find an architect?" Answer: "Hail a cab." It hasn't come to that yet. But there are dark clouds on the horizon, none more...Tags: Chicago River, Architecture, Lake Shore Drive, House Building, Marketing
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Developers embracing 'green' to gain an edge
Real estate long had one guiding principle: location. Now, environmental sustainability has joined the top tier of industry tenets in these times of financial turmoil and fierce competition for renters and workers. The new commercial property mantra is...Tags: Cook County, Real Estate, Manhattan, Chicago, Construction
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How to build today's supertalls
Tribune architecture criticA white hard-hat on his head, the earnest look of a professor on his face, Bill Baker has a ready metaphor to reveal the hidden structural logic behind Chicago's unprecedented reach into the sky. Mimicking the cores of concrete that shoot up the center of...Tags: International Organizations, Technology, Health and Safety at Work, Chicago, Construction
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Playing the Trump card on spire
Tribune architecture criticDonald Trump knows a thing or two about gambling and its pitfalls. He runs a casino empire that went bankrupt. Now "The Donald" is asking Chicagoans to take a huge gamble on one of their most prized possessions: their skyline. But his lawyer and his...Tags: John Hancock, International Business Machines Corporation, Television, Justice System, Richard M. Daley
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Aspire to greatness
Tribune architecture criticYou had to wonder when Donald Trump's Chicago skyscraper would descend into a circus. Last week, it showed signs of doing just that when city officials and Trump sources revealed that The Donald may stretch the spire atop his tower to potentially absurd...Tags: Tribune Tower, Television, Auto Trends, Richard M. Daley, Chicago Sun-Times
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Will Trump's tower happen?
It seems odd that the most widely anticipated architectural event in Chicago this fall is not a new building, but a demolition. Yet such is the celebrity of Donald "You're Fired" Trump these days that the pending destruction of the barge like, seven-story...Tags: Charter Schools, Manhattan, Society, University of Chicago, Chicago Park District
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One Trump reality worth all the hype
Tribune architecture criticDonald Trumps's 90-story hotel and condominium tower, which appears more real than ever after Thursday's ceremonial start of demolition on the Chicago Sun-Times Building, has more going for it than the hype associated with the reality TV show "The...Tags: John Hancock, Inland Steel Company, International Business Machines Corporation, Television, Richard M. Daley
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Movie review: 'The Warrior'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) Asif Kapadia's "The Warrior," which the director-writer describes as an "Eastern" (a Western set in the east), is a stunning debut film. In this remarkable fable-like work of adventure, tragedy and possible transcendence,...Tags: Crimes, Movies, Theft, Mira Nair, Clint Eastwood
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