Is Chicago architecture going to the dogs? “Chicago long has enjoyed a reputation as a city that superbly balances the demands of business and the art of architecture, but the present building boom – the nation’s largest surge of high-rise residential construction – is throwing that balance grotesquely out of whack. Wherever you glance these days – on either side of North Michigan Avenue, just west of South Lake Shore Drive, or along the Chicago River – you are apt to see a towering construction crane, to hear the whir of a cement mixer and to exclaim, ‘What went wrong’?”