2004 Articles
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Architecture Honored
“Good architecture is impossible without good clients. That was the theme Thursday as the Chicago Architecture Foundation recognized the developer who made possible a bold new condominium tower.”November 19, 2004 – Blair Kamin
New York Times
National Perspectives
“Colin Kihnke, president of CMK Development Corporation, wanted a building people would talk about. He got one. Inspired by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, the glass and concrete tower appears to float above a four-story glass box base. It looks like no other residential building in the city.”October 24, 2004 – Robert Sharoff
New Homes Magazine
Playing to the Gallery
“We have done several projects with CMK Companies, and I can tell you that it is rare to find a developer with the architectural sensitivity that CMK Companies displays.”September 2004 – Dan Schuyler
Chicago Agent
Residential Radical
“It has been a difficult process for Chicago developers to break away from traditional methods and embrace the contemporary. But developer Colin Kihnke and his company, CMK Development, have become leaders in their attempt to transform Chicago’s residential architecture.”July 2004 – Jason Fortune
New York Times
An Eye Catching Building
“New Yorkers may be ogling Richard Meier’s new apartment towers in the far-West Village, but Chicagoans are ogling Contemporaine, an unabashedly modern condominium in the River North district.”July 8, 2004 – Aric Chen
Chicago Tribune
Architecture
“Contemporaine represents a welcome departure from the hulking apartment and condominium towers that have deadened the Chicago cityscape. Yet it is significant in a broader sense. It is one of several residential high-rises in Chicago that are frankly – and winningly – modern.”March 21, 2004 – Blair Kamin
New Homes Magazine
Contemporaine changes housing options
“Anyone who’s driven past Contemporaine has seen an aura, which resonates with observers like the glow of a great painting or piece of sculpture. And it is as much a piece of sculpture, a grand work of art, as it is a functional modern building.”March 2004 – Dan Schuyler