This is an aside titled 'The Architecture of Parking in Chicago' dated 8/20/08
Sam Zell wants to sell the Chicago Tribune tower — my former place of employment — and turn it into condos. The paper has tried a number of bottom-up cost cutting measures (requesting we bring our own coffee filters and paper towels to work and other Office Space-like oddities.) Sale of the tower always seemed inevitable, seeing as there is a larger office far from the pricey Miracle Mile. Says the Sun-Times, “Such an owner could use it as a Gothic ornament for new construction on the parking lot.” The building just neighboring the Tribune Tower, Marina City really is a glorified parking lot. The entire lower half of the apartment complex is an exposed spiral parking ramp. I remember eating my lunch outside thinking that these few hundred cars had a better view of the city than most Chicago office workers, myself included. Simon Henley made the same observation in the very wonderful book, “The Architecture of Parking.”
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