Archinect - News2024-05-02T11:12:54-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/101780190/chicago-mayor-blasts-trump-sign-as-tasteless
Chicago Mayor blasts Trump sign as 'tasteless' Paul Petrunia2014-06-13T12:24:00-04:00>2018-09-25T12:43:35-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/yu/yuflij7fgk2uayzo.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>On Thursday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel belatedly jumped into the fray after a public campaign against the sign on Chicago's second-tallest building spearheaded by the Chicago Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin.
“Mayor Emanuel believes this is an architecturally tasteful building scarred by an architecturally tasteless sign,” Kelley Quinn, the mayor’s newly-appointed communications director, said in an emailed statement.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Trump responds in his typical classy style...</p>
<p><em>Before I bought the site, the Sun Times had the biggest, ugliest sign Chicago has ever seen. Mine is magnificent and popular.</em></p>
<p><em>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/statuses/477121438994804736" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">June 12, 2014</a></em></p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/100527356/the-9-11-gift-shop-sells-tacky-tchotchkes-because-we-ll-buy-them
The 9/11 Gift Shop Sells Tacky Tchotchkes Because We'll Buy Them Paul Petrunia2014-05-27T17:51:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ap/apvx7zn6h6owcl76.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>By most measures, the museum, designed by Davis Brody Bond and Snøhetta, has met the difficult challenge of telling the emotionally charged story of 9/11 at Ground Zero. The gift shop, however, has detracted from the achievement, with tabloids and blogs lambasting the “darkness” hoodies, toy firetrucks, “survivor tree” earrings, and 9/11 cheese plate for sale in the gift shop.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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