While I found it quite interesting, I found myself a bit disconected from the subject. For one, I've never been to Chicago, but in essence it's not something that really I had thought about before, yeah I understand that a building has to be fit for purpouse but I never rendered anything obsoleate in my mind. It seems so final.
So I was reading about the scheduled demolision of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has done a good job trying to remind everyone that a decaying building cannot be held on to if no one is going to invest in developing or even maintatining it. May influensial people have signed a letter asking the city to protect the building sighting that
"It is a significant and highly intact illustration of the aesthetic creativity, technological
experimentation, and cultural optimism that made Chicago a world center for late modernist architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. Prentice is an exceptionally valuable resources for the scholarly understanding and public appreciation of this influential period in the City’s history.”
So we'll see, the best bet is to hold a compition with the funding that the university has for the new medical building destind for the site and maybe get a proposal that is sypathetic to the monument. Hopefully it'll be around long enought for me to see it, when ever that may be...
Update: Read about the compitition winners and hope for Chicago's Modernist buildings here.
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