Photos: Hermano Silva

So here I am: in Chicago for a couple of months. A very charming city, especially now in summer. Many of the buildings were done by top architects like Mies Van der Rohe, Renzo Piano and Frank Ghery – I’ll talk more about it soon. Also many of the people are in a friendly mood, besides the crisis, and I think it is because of the weather.

Until now my favorite places were the beaches along Lake Michigan which adds a vacation atmosphere to the city, amazing parks such as Grant and Millennium, the remarkable art institutions and the gay bars in Andersonville area (last weekend they had a Swedish festival to celebrate the longest day of sunlight in all year). Soon more news from Chicago. See you!

From the top: The bean sculpture by Anish Kapoor at Millenium Park; the interior of the bean; the main entrance of Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and the mini version of the city at Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Click here to read about the exhibition “Take your time” of the artist Olafur Eliasson at Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.