Articles

Big Bang for your Block
July 26, 2008 Winnipeg Free Press by Ian Tizzard

Deux Journées de folie en campagnie de Darrel Babuk,
9 Septembre 2006, par Christophe Loustau, Richard Morris Hunt Fellow

Rencontre avec Darrel G. Babuk – Architect, Specialiste en Reseau de Transport
9 Septembre 2006, par Christophe Loustau, Richard Morris Hunt Fellow

Beyond Wright: Oak Park Architectural League displays their talents in new exhibit.
October 3, 2007, By S. Cardoso, Wednesday Journal, Oak Park

A Small Piece of a Larger Railway History
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Recently refurbished as a restaurant right by Aspen Crossing outside of Mossleigh, the dining car there may very well be the oldest of its kind left in North America.

The Rise and Fall of the McMansion and other Midwestern Housing Trends
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Has all of the wind gone out of the housing market, as the ‘housing bubble’ doomsday promoters predicted? A prediction of the Midwest US housing market for the near future!

Riding the Rails
Monday, September 05, 2005
Trains have always evoked imagery of a romantic method of travel: from the glamorous cognescenti who wined and dined on the Orient Express to Harper’s Bazaar singing of ‘dinner in the diner / nothing could be finer’ on a train heading towards Chattanooga.

Streetscapes
Monday, June 5, 2006
Successful streetscapes are defined by spaces between buildings. The spaces become successful places; streets where we live out our lives, nooks and crannies that create pleasant oasis, buildings that form backdrops and walls that give meter to time and space… all decidedly urban concepts.

Parking Lots
Saturday, November 19, 2005
They paved paradise / And put up a parking lot

Chicago - A Walkable City
Thursday, August 04, 2005
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Chicago must have seemed like the epicenter of the industrial universe. Yet, for all of its new found technological advancements, Chicago was a very down to earth, if not predictable place. Chicago’s practicality was borne of ingenuity. It just seemed to convey a Midwestern notion of commonsense. These days, we would try to find a fancy new term for this line of thinking, perhaps calling it … sustainable design, or transit oriented development.

Chicago – The City in a Garden
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Never heard of Frank Lloyd Wright? The same may be said about the modern day Sustainable Design Movement!

Urban Infills – The Coming Wave?
Thursday, May 09, 2005
Much has been said about issues concerning development on the periphery of Chicagoland. Sprawl – even the name sounds like a lethargic beast. I’ve oft wondered what sort of commute times we’ve created for folks living in the new tracts. Certainly, sprawl stands to diminish quality of life by forcing one to spend lengthening times in daily commutes, by lessening the supply of agricultural land, and by investing enormous public funds into new infrastructure projects that serve the far flung reaches.

Explore Chicago Like Never Before
Thursday, May 05, 2005
The Mayor’s Office of Special Events, as part of their summer festival series, is staging "Great Chicago Places and Spaces" this May 20 - 22. This festival presents Chicago’s design heritage in a way that few cities are able.

Chicago Pioneered Transit Oriented Design - Where is it Now?
Monday, April 4, 2005
A quick look at Chicago’s urban archeology reveals pockets of older homes close to train stations that are surrounded by newer housing stock – the original Transit Oriented Development.