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Chicago's South Works: From Abandoned Steel Mill to Quantum Computing Hub?
Chicago's South Works was once a thriving steel mill that employed 20,000 people. But in early 90s, it closed, leaving economic devastation in it's wake, and a 600 acre emtry site on Chicago's Southeast side. For decades, various redevelpment proposals have come and gone. The latest is a proposal for a quantum computing hub, potentially the largest in the United States. But is quantum computing finally the thing that returns South Works to it's former glory?
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Chicago's Deep Tunnel Project
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Since its founding, Chicago has had problems dealing with water. Due to it's low lying terrain, draining the city, keeping it's waterways clean, and controlling flooding have always posed massive challenges. In the 1960s, the city embarked on a massive engineering solution, the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, AKA the Deep Tunnel Project. The project's aim is to create a secondary system of large tun...
Chicago's Future Skyscrapers
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Chicago's cityscape is ever-changing. So what new buildings are on the horizon? Let's look at a handful of ambitious skyscraper projects that are in the works in Chicago. Featured: 1000M, 400 N Lake Shore Drive, Tribune East Tower, The 78, and Lincoln Yards.
A History of Observation Tower Design
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Around the world, the skylines of cities are punctuated by Observation Towers. While serving practical functions like hosting communications antennae, observation decks, these strcutres perhaps more importantly serve as symbolic icons of the cities whose skylines they grace. From Paris' Eiffel Tower, to Seattle's Space Needle, Toronto's CN Tower and beyond. 0:00 - Intro 0:44 - Early Modern Towe...
The Future of Lake Shore Drive
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Chicago's DuSable Lake Shore Drive is undoubtedly an icon. But it's also aging and threatened by increasingly frequent flooding from the lake. A massive project is being proposed right now to redesign and rebuild the northern half of the roadway. But as Chicago considers the future of it's lakefront roadway, it's worth asking - is Lake Shore Drive a public good, or an obstruction?
The Chicago Bungalow: the House that Built a City
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The Chicago Bungalow is a distinctive and ubiquitous style of house in the city. In fact, there are over 80,000 bungalows in the city, concentrated primarily in an area challenged the “bungalow belt.” Combining good design, sturdy construction and an affordable price point, the bungalow rose to prominence during a time when Chicago was booming, but it persists to this day as a popular home type...
The Growing Movement for Dam Removal
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Dams have made an extreme impact on our landscapes. While providing great societal benefits like electrical generation, flood control and irrigation for farming, dams have also had an extreme impact on the environment, permanently altering entire river systems and blocking the migration of species like salmon. In recent year, a movement is growing calling for the removal of dams, and several ma...
Where do you build a New Airport?
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New airports are incredibly complicated projects. So when a city outgrows it's old airport, where do they build a new one? Seattle is facing this problem as we speak. In this video, we'll look at the challenges Seattle faces in planning a new airport as well as other examples of similar "greenfield" airports in Denver and around the world. 0:00 Intro 0:55 Seattle's New Airport 2:39 "Greenfield ...
The Problems with the Boring Company
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Elon Musk's Boring Company aims to "solve traffic" by building networks of underground road tunnels. But after years of false starts and underwhelming results, their ability to deliver on their promises is in question. More importantly, the Company seems to be disinterested in building infrastructure that will benefit a society as a whole, but rather a select few. So is the Boring Company, in f...
Seattle’s Gas Works Park
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Once a decimated industrial landscape and now a city park, Seattle's Gas Works Park is a groundbreaking example of landscape remediation on a large scale. It took a visionary group of activists years to slowly transform the polluted site into what today is one of Seattle's most popular parks. At the time, it was the first time a post-industrial site to be converted into a park without the compl...
How does Chicago get its Water?
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Where does your water come from? Well, if you live in Chicago, the answer is obviously the Great Lakes. But delivering water from Lake Michigan to taps across Chicagoland requires a massive network of infrastructure, most of which goes unnoticed on a daily basis. So how does Chicago get it's water? Let's take a brief look at the history of the city's water infrastructure, from water cribs in th...
A Brief History of Ballpark Design
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If baseball is America's pastime, baseball stadiums are America's architecture. From early Jewelbox Parks (Fenway Park, Wrigley Field), to concrete donuts and multipurpose stadiums (Oakland Coliseum, Veteran's Stadium), to retro-modern parks (Camden Yards, Busch Stadium, Coors Field), baseball stadiums reflect the changes to a sport and a people over the past century. Let's take a look into wha...