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New architecture and design competitions: Chicago Prize, AIA Film Challenge, Architecture at Zero, and a Bench in Venice

New architecture and design competitions: Chicago Prize, AIA Film Challenge, Architecture at Zero, and a Bench in Venice
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Running Scared at 35: Billy Crystal on Gregory Hines and that huge phone

Kino Lorber In the pantheon of memorable buddy-cop movies of the 1980s, the undisputed champions are “48 Hours” (1982) and “Lethal Weapon” (1987) and I’ll add “Beverly Hills Cop” (1984) to the mix because after all, Axel Foley spent an awful lot of time with Billy and Taggart, right? I’d round out my Top 5 from the decade with “Stakeout” (1987) and the Chicago-set “Running Scared,” which was released 35 years ago this month and became a solid hit, with a gross of $38 million ($92 million in today’s dollars). Back in the mid-1980s, comedian Billy Crystal and actor-dancer Gregory Hines might not have been the first two names you’d think of to play streetwise plainclothes Chicago police detectives, but Crystal and Hines had terrific rhythm as Danny Costanzo and Ray Hughes, respectively, constantly exchanging snappy banter even as they exchanged gunfire numerous times with aspiring criminal kingpin Julio Gonzales (Jimmy Smits, usually sporting a st

The Thompson Center, a blend of patriotism and Postmodernism, should be a Chicago landmark

Photo by Jonathan Solomon There is a postmodern government building in Chicago that is in danger of being torn down. It “might be called architecture on amphetamines,” wrote New York Times architecture critic Paul Goldberger in 1985 when the State of Illinois Center (now the James R. Thompson Center) opened, “a building that is so utterly relentless that it seems never to let you go.” Once the embodiment of the future, draped in a banner reading “A Building for Year 2000,” why are so many people today ready to let go of the building, and why should it matter to you? Opinion

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