![Funky apartment building](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3167/2433623205_6b19a91d2b.jpg)
But... what's that stuff on it?
![Funky apartment building](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/2433623243_c36dfcca41.jpg)
Glorious! A wall of cream brick, broken by a perfectly proportioned band of darker brown flecked with a grid of the cream brick, and with an assortment of inset abstract sculpture in concrete.
So... did somebody just have some sculpture laying around, or what?
![Funky apartment building](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2224/2434438306_19974bf2d0.jpg)
![Funky apartment building](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/2434438430_1db41bdbc7.jpg)
While these creative little bits of abstract sculpture are no doubt the highlight the building, there's also...
![Funky apartment building](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3025/2434438530_39e596609c.jpg)
...one heck of an entryway, combining more of the checkerboard brick pattern from the front facade with concrete pattern blocks and a pair of demarcating brick piers. It's a tiny celebration!
It's at 1618 W. Sherwin Avenue, just off of Clark Street. It was built around 1962; the architect is N. S. Theodorou.
3 comments:
That is a great building. There's a proto-brutalist facade treatment on another 4+1 up that way - it's just next to the el at, I think, Jarvis.
This is a great building!
There's a unit for sale there. Field trip anyone?
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