tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6426327.post114728776422073694..comments2023-11-02T10:50:26.760-05:00Comments on The Place Where We Live: Blair Kamin: Big Alien Saucer Soldier Field Gets What it DeservesBowerbird Commhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10845071651698646437noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6426327.post-1148318100613951382006-05-22T12:15:00.000-05:002006-05-22T12:15:00.000-05:00See. I told you they were zealots. You can't have ...See. I told you they were zealots. You can't have a rational discussion because suddenly we're tearing down the Art Institute and paving over our neighborhods. It's no wonder that Kamin and certain aldermen pander to them.<BR/>MarkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6426327.post-1147654180731027722006-05-14T19:49:00.000-05:002006-05-14T19:49:00.000-05:00Thanks, anonymous. I hadn't thought about how I m...Thanks, anonymous. I hadn't thought about how I might feel seeing an image of the alien saucer broadcast to the world via the Olympics. Yeck.J Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05639223915296288760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6426327.post-1147626520354380142006-05-14T12:08:00.000-05:002006-05-14T12:08:00.000-05:00Now the city of Chicago is being distracted in a d...Now the city of Chicago is being distracted in a debate -<BR/>host an Olympics. And what is the ultimate photo-op<BR/>everyone talks about? The signature video view on Monday night football? Solider Field. But the truth behind the now ugly picture is this - <BR/>We had a world-class building, recognized as a national treasure. Short-term greed destroyed not only the<BR/>aesthetics but the use Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6426327.post-1147531428788580302006-05-13T09:43:00.000-05:002006-05-13T09:43:00.000-05:00First of all, I'm grateful for this comment. I am ...First of all, I'm grateful for this comment. I am not a knee jerk preservationist, and I think there is a lot of room for good debate about what is or is not worth saving. I'm also a big fan of looking at buildings in clusters rather than isolated case-by-isolated case. <BR/><BR/>What bothers me about the Soldier Field renovation is that a) the end result is a ridiculous eyesore no matter what J Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05639223915296288760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6426327.post-1147483925022398392006-05-12T20:32:00.000-05:002006-05-12T20:32:00.000-05:00Blair Kamin is an extremist preservationist who, l...Blair Kamin is an extremist preservationist who, like the rest of them, engages in revisionist history. Any fault with the new Soldier Field is not the fault of the architect or the mayor. It's the fault of the preservationists. They tried to save a pedestrian structure of weak significance. They lost, but as is typcal with zealots, they just couldn't let it go. They demanded a bone, so the mayorBill Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03725107926962616200noreply@blogger.com