Hints and tips:
...For lunch, you can walk up the hill to Colina, a seafood restaurant which opened last week in the 1820s boarding house-turned buzzy Fort Road Hotel....
...The design of The Douglas, a boutique-style hotel from the Autograph Collection (an upscale group under Marriott’s umbrella) that opened in 2017, aims to tell this story from the get-go....
...Collection....
...It was a project known as the Ocean Grande Resort, which included a hotel and two condo towers and was to be managed by Sonesta Hotels. “Pre-sales” began in 1999....
...Plans are already under way, designed by the architects Glenn Howells, for what Khan and Smit are calling a “green spine through the centre of the estate” not dissimilar to the Riverwalk in downtown Chicago...
...An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is the Chicago River. We took a brilliant architecture tour of downtown Chicago by boat....
...They range from a 20ft waterfall in a downtown Chicago penthouse to a 30ft-long water curtain in a 33rd-floor flat in Michigan, featuring computer-controlled lighting that changes colour based on the season...
...Even so, she loved what she found, as in time did her husband, Walter, a wealthy Chicago businessman....
...Shapiro bought the seven-bedroom, Willard house overlooking Rock Creek Park in Washington DC after a long search for a place that could showcase his contemporary art collection....
...Some are rushing uptown for a meeting or downtown to grab a drink....
...The Texas School Book Depository Building of 1901 is a generic brick cliff of a warehouse, a bit Roman, a bit Chicago....
...There are also green public spaces, pedestrianised areas and a diverse art collection spread throughout the complex, with works by Henry Moore and Antony Gormley....
...And the scope and quality of the collection, which runs to 300,000 works, is testimony to the taste, wealth and generosity of Chicago society and the Institute’s patrons, after whom almost every room is...
...Side streets are not cleared at all, giving downtown driving a Mad Max quality....
...The pharmacology professor had already left for the evening – the lights of downtown Chicago beckoned. I met up again with Usman, the psychiatrist....
...If you can’t, choose the Campton Place hotel right off Union Square, the Ritz Carlton near Nob Hill or the new St Regis downtown, writes Holly Finn....
...The collection of 500 photographs – plus some paintings and sculptures – was removed from Refco’s offices in Chicago and New York and placed in storage....
...Every spare inch of its wood-panelled walls is hung with paintings from the club’s 750 artworks – the second largest art collection in the Midwest after the Art Institute of Chicago....
...“We are in competition with the Steppenwolf and the Goodman,” says Boevers, the Apple Tree’s executive and artistic director, referring to two theatres in downtown Chicago....
...We walked from the Marriott Courtyard hotel to Harkins’ law office, just four blocks away....
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