Lee Bey

@LEEBEY

Sun-Times architecture critic. Author of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side.

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My architecture column today. "State Street, slapped around by changing retail patterns and a pandemic that drained it and the Loop of many of its workers and shoppers, is again in need of bold moves and visionary planning." chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

chicago.suntimes.com Burnham Prize winners seek to make State Street great again The Chicago Architectural Club awarded its 2026 Burnham Prize to an ambitious proposal that would turn the never-used $400 million transit superstation beneath Block 37 into a cultural and performa...

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My architecture column today. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

chicago.suntimes.com Landmark status sought for Lake View house tied to city's early preservation movement Chicago architect John Vinci's home was frequented by architects, preservationists and professionals, including Richard Nickel, who stopped by before heading to the Chicago Stock Exchange Building,...

Lee Bey @LEEBEY Nov 2

My architecture column today. "The city and the Northwest Indiana Regional Development Authority are also lowering the curtain on the nearby former H. Gordon & Sons department store. And there’s more demolition to come." chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

chicago.suntimes.com Demolition has begun on Gary's storied Genesis Convention Center Demolition crews are now ripping down the 45-year-old convention center in the opening move of a downtown redevelopment effort.

Lee Bey @LEEBEY Oct 31

My architecture column this weekend. "Preservation Chicago Executive Director Ward Miller said, 'We are hopeful that a new good steward would come forward to purchase and restore this amazing building.'" chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

chicago.suntimes.com Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright then wronged by neglect, South Park Terrace heads for auction The opening bid on the 52-unit Washington Park apartment building that is an architectural riff on Wright's Francisco Terrace: $100,000.

Lee Bey @LEEBEY Oct 28

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Today's architecture column. The new book is a goodbye kiss and a loving remembrance to the wild and historic Johnson Publishing offices, which were wrecked and removed when the building turned residential in 2017.

chicago.suntimes.com Ebony/Jet Building’s lost, hip interiors detailed in new book Photographer Barbara Karant remembers the most original, intact and absolutely funky 1970s corporate interior in the U.S. in her book "820 Ebony/Jet: Visions of the Johnson Publishing Company, an...