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Palatial Design, Modest Price

Can a Kiwi architect create the future of urban design in the Chicago suburbs?

By NewsDude , Newser Staff

Posted Nov 4, 2007 10:33 AM CST

(Newser) – Students of urban design should take a lesson from a new condominium development in Chicago's northern suburbs, the Chicago Tribune's architectural critic Blair Kamin says. Its three 20-story buildings in Skokie not only "create an instant skyline for a suburb that doesn't have one,... Read full story »

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