Trumping Good Taste

The battle between a Chicago architecture critic and developer Donald Trump over a giant advertising kiosk promoting Trump’s ostentatious new high rise is continuing, even after Trump supposedly agreed to make changes. “With help from the ever-compliant City Council, the New York developer was able to plant his kiosk a block east of his Wabash Avenue property and on Chicago’s prime shopping boulevard. He then turned the kiosk from a sign that was supposed to point to the riverwalk along his tower into an advertisement masquerading as a public service.”