The View From Above: How The 606 Trail Will Elevate Chicago’s Green Space Experience

The View From Above: How The 606 Trail Will Elevate Chicago’s Green Space Experience

There was something otherworldly about being on The 606. Images came to mind of new-world structures like Rem Koolhaas’ McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT and the concrete and stainless steel tube enclosing the Green Line track that passes over the building, and Helmut Jahn’s adjacent student dormitory, as did childhood images of the Jetson’s futuristic lifestyle. At other moments along the trail I felt a backwards pull, to medieval, walled cities, where passage along ramparts is cheek-by-jowl with residential quarters and cathedrals.

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Changes in personnel at Alphawood Foundation

Changes in personnel at Alphawood Foundation

Alphawood Foundation today announced a series of staff changes and additions.

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Alphawood Foundation announced a $32 million gift to SOAS

Alphawood Foundation announced a $32 million gift to SOAS

Alphawood Foundation, a Chicago private foundation, today announced a £20 million ($32 million) gift to SOAS, University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) to advance the study and preservation of Buddhist and Hindu art in Southeast Asia. The largest ever gift in Alphawood Foundation’s history, the donation is also one of the largest recorded to UK higher education, especially in the field of arts and humanities.

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ALPHAWOOD FOUNDATION CHICAGO ANNOUNCES UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION EFFORT

ALPHAWOOD FOUNDATION CHICAGO ANNOUNCES UNITY TEMPLE RESTORATION EFFORT

Alphawood Foundation Chicago and the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation (the “Congregation”) announced today that they have entered into a preliminary agreement that provides a framework for the eventual complete restoration and preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.  This agreement contemplates a joint campaign by Alphawood, the Congregation, Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, and other interested preservationists to raise the funds necessary to complete a comprehensive restoration of Wright’s internationally-recognized masterpiece.  As part of this agreement, Alphawood has pledged $10 million toward the cost of the effort, subject to successful efforts to raise the balance of the necessary funds.

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