To the editor:
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Lynn Becker and the Chicago Reader have deftly skewered the numbing sameness of the downtown high-rises that are now limping skyward [“Stop the Blandness!” January 17]. Never has so much cheap-looking architecture been put up under one mayor’s watch. Improving the quality of these sterile slabs can only be done if Mayor Daley and his planners develop some sense of taste. They obviously cannot tell a box from a spire–or a white elephant from a landmark. Admittedly, a few of the new towers look great. Yet these few only serve to illustrate the fact that blandness could be avoided if architects, developers, and city officials so desired.
The city that invented tall buildings is now saddled with tall buildings that a child could have designed. Of course, no child would dare design buildings this boring.
Preservation Chicago
