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| Goethe enjoys his evening of "frozen music" (JJB, 2011) |
She who must be
obeyed and I were heading west on Diversey a couple weeks ago, talking with
friends on our way to the Basil Leaf for dinner. It had been a strange day . . . two or three blocks from the
lake the sun shone brightly with temperatures in the upper 80’s. Next to the lake, though, everything
was shrouded in fog, and the temperature was lower by a good ten degrees.
As we approached
the corner of Diversey and Sheridan, we came upon a sight unlike anything I
have seen before. We were in the
zone between fog and sunlight when, looking south, the top half of Lucien Lagrange’s
brand new 2520 Lincoln Park seemed to explode in sunlight.
The building was
topped out at the beginning of the summer, but as of yet only about the lower
half of the building’s 39 floors have had windows installed. So as we walked
past on that day a couple weeks ago, the setting sun burst through the open
spaces where the building was still wide open on the upper floors. From there the light exploded through
the fog.
It was a site so
extraordinary that even Herman Hahn’s 25-foot statue of Wolfgang von Goethe
seemed to take notice.
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