Taking It Back

The Chicago Tribune is asking its critics to write about a review they wish they could have back – an instance in which their immediate reaction, expressed on deadline, came to seem incorrect with the passage of time. For architecture critic Blair Kamin, a pasting of legendary architect Rem Koolhaas sprang immediately to mind. “As I’ve gone through the building over the last three years… I’ve been gripped by tinges of regret — not so much that my criticisms were wrong, but that I blew them out of proportion.”