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...comfort of their studio apartment or local Starbucks....
...Its stained glass Tiffany dome — with a span of 38 feet — is the largest ever made. The building plays host to the third edition of the Chicago Architectural Biennial, which opens next month....
...It has a slender white metal cube frame with a natural leather seat suspended from it....
...“At the time” he says, “factories were designed with a brown glass box at the front with the white-collar workers, the office — and a shed at the back for the blue-collar workers who made things, no natural...
...There are slender, tapering lamp posts, classically inflected bollards (an architect’s in-joke) and curved, perforated-metal benches (surviving originals have become local icons)....
...It just morphed into Muji, the warehousing of Ikea or your local hipster café....
...Broken glass crunches underfoot as Reed, a 20-year veteran of the industry, explains with pride that this plant, owned by local waste-management company Recology, is the most advanced of its kind on the...
...The tallest existing structure on the site was covered in gold leaf and new buildings were clad in “foamed aluminium”, a counter-intuitive metal froth....
...that, although it is in the midst of the city’s art world, is still, for now, defined as much by its metal-yards and workshops as its galleries and photo-studios....
...For now, the clubs and the warehouses, the meatpackers and the models, the glaziers and the gallerists co-exist in a slice of real urbanity....
...Some of the new residents, living in houses whose urban chic mix of polished concrete floors with vast expanses of glass and metal are as contemporary as anything in Palermo, adopted the name happily....
...There are a couple of clocks, a few pieces of china and glass on some shelves, but few books....
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