Week Links: June 1, 2012

Written By Editor on June 1, 2012 in architects, architecture, CTA, Green Line, Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue, Morgan Street, Pink Line, State Street, transportation, Uptown

Lucien Lagrange calls himself a “basket case.” While mass transit companies elsewhere build 100-story buildings and huge shopping malls around its stations, the Tribune wrings its hands over whether the CTA’s new Green/Pink line Morgan Station is too fancy. Another Chicago residential building wants to become a hotel.  900 DeWitt Place, which is tucked behind the John Hancock Center, has filed paperwork with the city...