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The neighborhood this is in is and the one next to it are actually full of public wall murals. Public art is great. This site has a cool rotating gallery of murals here. The title above the image states what neighborhood it's in: Chicago Neighborhood Murals
One of my favorite is a rotating one for a cocktail lounge in Wicker Park. It's one of the nicest in the city, but there's no signs or windows in front and you'd never know it from the outside:
Oh, yeah. LA has some pretty good architecture. I don't think on the whole it competes with Chicago as Chicago takes over at a certain point but in no way does LA have no good architecture. I think of LA having some good old architecture in some areas, and there's some good residential (SFH) architecture in the area that I've always enjoyed.
How does it take over? Are we talking about the urban setting or strictly the architecture of a building?
How does it take over? Are we talking about the urban setting or strictly the architecture of a building?
Chicago has more architectural styles in it than LA is the reason why and IMO there are good examples of many in the city. The problem is that the general tourist has no idea about this - they stay downtown and only know what's there, which is just a small subset of what the city actually has. Chicago actually has a lot of contemporary architecture outside of downtown at least in certain areas, and also the old stuff.
The neighborhood this is in is and the one next to it are actually full of public wall murals. Public art is great. This site has a cool rotating gallery of murals here. The title above the image states what neighborhood it's in: Chicago Neighborhood Murals
One of my favorite is a rotating one for a cocktail lounge in Wicker Park. It's one of the nicest in the city, but there's no signs or windows in front and you'd never know it from the outside:
Chicago has more architectural styles in it than LA is the reason why and IMO there are good examples of many in the city. The problem is that the general tourist has no idea about this - they stay downtown and only know what's there, which is just a small subset of what the city actually has. Chicago actually has a lot of contemporary architecture outside of downtown at least in certain areas, and also the old stuff.
What type of architecture does Chicago have that LA is lacking, besides rowhouses?
What type of architecture does Chicago have that LA is lacking, besides rowhouses?
Mentioning row homes shows your unfamiliarity with Chicago. Chicago has them, but not a lot at least anymore. IMO where Chicago takes it over is in its varied style of high rises. Show me something that exists in LA like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...er_Chicago.jpg
Mentioning row homes shows your unfamiliarity with Chicago. Chicago has them, but not a lot at least anymore. IMO where Chicago takes it over is in its varied style of high rises.
I mentioned row homes because LA is lacking in those, not because Chicago is full of them. I'm familiar enough with Chicago, but not an expert. I do know there are some row houses.
Chicago has more high rises, but I think Los Angeles has a wider variety of architectural styles.
I mentioned row homes because LA is lacking in those, not because Chicago is full of them. I'm familiar enough with Chicago, but not an expert. I do know there are some row houses.
Chicago has more high rises, but I think Los Angeles has a wider variety of architectural styles.
There are some and far less than there were years ago but no. LA doesn't have a wider variety of architectural styles. I am quite familiar with LA by the way - my dad and that entire side is from there and I've been there more times than I care to count. Not to mention that my cousin was on LA city council for 2 decades.
Just because it has less architectural styles doesn't mean it sucks or anything. It's still a good architectural city but comparing it to Chicago - it comes up a little short, but it will beat most other US cities for sure in my opinion.
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