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Bertrand Goldberg’s famous River City complex in Chicago looks like nothing so much as an old bus operator’s coin dispenser, glass windows stacked inside its joined concrete cylinders. The South Loop megaproject was the architect’s try at a utopian urban neighborhood, complete with offices, shopping, restaurants, a park, and the “River Road,” a winding inner atrium lit from skylights. It’s a landmark of Brutalist design, a monument to ’80s thinking about cities, and a fixture of the Chicago Architecture Boat Tour. Advertisement The building also tells a story Goldberg could not have anticipated: the rise and fall of the Chicago condo. When completed in 1987, River City’s 448 units were rentals designed to appeal to middle-income yuppies who found city living attractive but homeownership out of reach. ....
Heart operation at hospital lets some patients go home the same day PITTSBURGH (KDKA) It may seem unimaginable: having a major heart operation and going home the same day. But that is now an option at St. Clair Hospital. Jack Hudson was short of breath because of a bad heart valve. He had a procedure to replace it without opening his chest. It was done with a small incision in his groin and a catheter threaded up through the blood vessels and into the heart. “I was ready for it,” he said. His procedure was at 8:30. He had lunch at 2. ....