SEEING THINGS / A CITY WITH A PLAN


	SEEING THINGS / A CITY WITH A PLAN
ellington
6-25-2009 11:06 PM
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CHICAGO'S BURNHAM PAVILION
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3f6e4659-ef7a-457f-91a5-417790156fc7/164CCAC2-1ED7-40B5-92BA-54F15B2650AE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/" href="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/" style="font-size: 11px;">themoment.blogs.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/"><H2 class="entry-title">Seeing Things | A City With a Plan</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/img/EF499A39-6000-47F8-8372-B7D6B06DCFF5" alt="Hadid's Burnham Pavilion is not yet completed" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/"><SPAN class="caption">A rendering of Zaha Hadid’s Burnham Pavilion, now on view at Chicago’s Millennium Park.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/"><P>Chicago, a city known for its civic pride, has a lot to be proud of this year. Last week marked the beginning of an ambitious summer-long program of events to celebrate the centennial of the architect Daniel Burnham’s visionary 1909 Plan of Chicago, which transformed the gritty city into a “city beautiful.” Two temporary pavilions in Millennium Park — one designed by the London architect Zaha Hadid and the other by Ben van Berkel of UN Studio in Amsterdam — are the heart of the celebration.<SPAN id="more-18865"></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/img/3854011A-C40D-4153-81DD-F6DB9AE9EC9D" alt="Van Berkel describes his canopy-like steel structure as an 'urban activator'" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/"><SPAN class="caption">Ben van Berkel’s Burnham Pavilion is now on view in Chicago’s Millennium Park.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/seeing-things-a-city-with-a-plan/">Chicago has produced many fine architects, so why the imported talent? 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