A few blocks southeast from the Blue line’s Western stop, a glimpse of Bucktown’s future - ? :
A motley assortment of colors, designs and materials. Can’t say I like these building facades side-by-side (or at all), but seated as they are across from empty lots tracing the Blue Line’s Milwaukee corridor, they do offer El riders something of aesthetic interest.
A closer look at the building at N. Winnebago Ave. and W. St. Paul Ave. shows its windows pushed-out eastward (looking for morning light, I presume):
To me, awkward. The unusual central panels and windows (reminiscent of solar panels?) fail to distract from the facade’s essential plainness: a flat brick/cement rectangle. And the garages and dumpsters front and center… Hard to imagine anyone hanging a “Home Sweet Home” sign above a garage door. But you almost have to give the designer credit for bravery.
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Jeremy Gantz
Jeremy Gantz, web editor of In These Times and a freelance writer, can’t quite seem to sit still. A 2008 graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, he has lived in Massachusetts, Minnesota, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Washington D.C.
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