Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. – Nola Adé and Cloud Farmers, both presented by Chicago MadeĭJ for the evening: DJ Mike P Goose Island Stage Schedule Sept. – Masters of the Mic: Hip Hop 50 featuring Doug E. – Mamii and Slique Jay Adams, both presented by Chicago Made Taste of Chicago Main Stage Schedule: Sept. There’s no admission fee for Taste of Chicago, and all vendors accept cash or credit. Credit: Brittany Sowacke/Block Club Chicago Click here for more information on this year’s special events. Other special events this year include Made in Chicago Food Trivia, Friday Night Flights, DJ Casper Tribute, Chicago Sings Karaoke competition and a 5k or 10k run. The Goose Island stage will feature “Chicago’s rising stars” including KAINA, DJ Simmy, Rich Robbins, Rae Chardonnay, Bianca Shaw, DJ Lena Bandz and more, according to a press release. Fresh, EPMD, KRS-One, Slick Rick, Proyecto Uno, Whitney and Lupita Infante, supported by Chicago’s all-female mariachi group Mariachi Sirenas. Headline performances on the Taste Main Stage include Master’s of The Mic, Doug E. The annual food festival also includes multiple live music acts throughout the weekend on two different stages. This year’s lineup includes 35 restaurants and 15 food trucks featuring well-known names like Cumin Club Indian Kitchen, Sapori Trattoria, Arun’s Thai Restaurant, The Original Rainbow Cone, Healthy Substance Kitchen, LC Pho Restaurant and Yum Dum. The festival usually happens in July but was pushed back this year due to the NASCAR Street Race. It also has an aesthetic advantage, accentuating the thinness of each stem.GRANT PARK - After being rescheduled, the Taste of Chicago is back this weekend in Grant Park. In a significant refinement, the glass exterior is sheathed in six types of blue-green coating - darker for the smaller floors of the truncated pyramids, which need more protection from the sun, and lighter for the larger floors.Īccording to the architects, the glass, made in Germany, cuts down on heat gain and saves energy. Seen from South Lake Shore Drive around the Field Museum, the tower looks flatter but is still striking, rising directly ahead of the driver as Gang takes full advantage of its location on the same line, or axis, as the drive. From the Lake Shore Drive Bridge over the Chicago River, Vista is a stunning sculptural presence, with deep shadows accentuating the curves of its three stems. Two close-up views are worthy of being singled out. It’s a small move, but multiplied hundreds of times, it equals the difference between a bland vertical stalk like the neighboring Aon Center and a dramatic sculptural form. Each column is placed 5 inches inward or outward from the one below it. Gang creates that illusion with a steplike progression. The south facade of the new Vista Tower as the building nears completion. Because it shifts from a broad base to a narrow top, it is very much a Chicago building - a powerful presence, unlike the freakishly thin, cigarette-shaped towers that rise from the confined sites of Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row. Seen from a distance, Vista’s stepping silhouette recalls the pronounced setbacks of the Willis and Trump towers. It all adds up to a tower that does exactly what a skyscraper is supposed to do: appeal to the viewer at many different scales. The stacked frustums form the stems, which grow in height from east to west, making an effective transition between the wide-open horizontality of the lakefront and the soaring verticality of downtown’s skyscrapers.įollowing the angled path of East Wacker, the stems are offset, giving the tower eight corners instead of four - a plus for the developers, who rely on panoramic views to sell condos. She follows a similar path at Vista, where her building block is truncated pyramids, called “frustums,” that have the functional advantage of creating different floor sizes. At Aqua, Gang’s design method was to begin with small units - the curving balconies, which captured views - and organize them into mesmerizing stacks.
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