Lee Bey

Happy birthday to @herbiehancock!

If I do a new version of my Southern Exposure book, the late Bill Pavlecic's St Simeon Serbian Orthodox Church 3737 E. 114th is in. Did quick shots for a talk I'm giving today, but want to revisit. Modeled after a 15th century Serbian monastery ... but built in 1968.

These birds ain't loyal.

@WatchOutforLucy @wttw @chicagobars Thank you!

@wttw @chicagobars Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side by Lee Bey.

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@rfbogardus Thanks for reading! I'm looking forward to writing about it once it's done and open for business. Walked the grounds with Billie Tsien last November and wrote this: chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

First serious, thoughtful report on the Obama Center that I’ve seen. It’s a building design based on the inside/outside, a practice of Williams/Tsien, if I recall. I’ve suggested that the tower is like a Tuscan hill-town watch tower in a hostile world, & I like photos of it. /1

My new architecture column on the Obama Presidential Center's full-size Oval Office reproduction. "The Obama-era Oval Office — furniture, books, carpet, artwork down to the smallest detail — will be created in the new space." chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

My architecture column today. If approved this afternoon, the building’s most significant features including the complex’s dazzling Jazz Age first-and second-floor lobby spaces would be protected. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

My architecture column today. The 24-foot gold statue, erected in 1918 to commemorate the 1893 World's Fair, will get re-gilded for the first time in 33 years. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

Today's architecture column. "The project is the first substantial exterior repair Greenstone Church has seen since its 1882 construction." chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

Three beauties from the Volo Auto Museum that I spotted yesterday at Navy Pier.

Geez.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's budget director got illegal property tax breaks for five years chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/…

@MrChuckD Chicago Sun-Times Architecture Critic here...if you did any Chicago buildings, I'd like to profile them and interview you.

In the 70s i was a architectural design phenom student who wanted to be a renderer … these are on my moms wall about 44years old. It ll be fun to see how A I can twist em in 2026

.@WGNNews's Robert Jordan interviews Tommy Lee Jones during the filming of the St. Patrick's Day Parade chase scene from The Fugitive (1993). #chicago #StPatricksDay @nuzman9

Today's architecture column. "Pride Cleaners is the kind of attention-grabbing roadside modernism found in places like Palm Springs, California, and not often in broad shouldered Chicago. A building like that is bound to fire-up an artist’s imagination." chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

My latest architecture column. "The organization is calling for architects, designers, neighborhood groups, artists, innovators and interdisciplinary teams to submit visionary ideas that explore what Chicago could look like in 2050." chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th. We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

@DoctaSlick Me too.

She is so captivating! Love her in Ganja and Hess🩸

New article, lots of images, at the link: When a Museum Devours its Own: The Mortal Threat to Adler & Sullivan's Stock Exchange Trading Room arcchicago.blogspot.com/2026/03/when-m…

Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-d…