Zach Mortice
@zachmortice.bsky.social
Chicago design journalist and critic, @bloomberg.com and elsewhere. In one of those phases where I can’t decide whether it matters what buildings look like or not.
https://zachmortice.com
https://zachmortice.com
Sorry if this offends but most conspiracy theories are true if you strip away all the proper nouns
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Sorry if this offends but most conspiracy theories are true if you strip away all the proper nouns
The only thing more stressful than a bad thing happening is a good thing happening
November 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The only thing more stressful than a bad thing happening is a good thing happening
5th season of Stranger Things is the most Epstein/Q coded yet
November 29, 2025 at 3:48 AM
5th season of Stranger Things is the most Epstein/Q coded yet
I am big mad b/c ppl have been sleeping on Felix Candela / Chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad /
November 29, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I am big mad b/c ppl have been sleeping on Felix Candela / Chapel of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad /
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The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
I’m trying to fly home to chicago from CDMX tomorrow and would LOVE to get some prayers going in the chat 🌨️❄️🛫🛬
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I’m trying to fly home to chicago from CDMX tomorrow and would LOVE to get some prayers going in the chat 🌨️❄️🛫🛬
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I am neither of these things but I am an architectural historian and some things were absolutely and beyond a doubt built as a bit, so, seems plausible to me
I wonder how paleontologists and anthropologists factor in the possibility that some ancient people laid out their remains as some type of elaborate bit
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I am neither of these things but I am an architectural historian and some things were absolutely and beyond a doubt built as a bit, so, seems plausible to me
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Someone shared an interior progress shot of the Thompson Center on Reddit. Just sharing here in case the OP deletes the original thread and photo. It looks like all of the upper office levels are enclosed, but the big atrium space will live on.
www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Someone shared an interior progress shot of the Thompson Center on Reddit. Just sharing here in case the OP deletes the original thread and photo. It looks like all of the upper office levels are enclosed, but the big atrium space will live on.
www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...
www.reddit.com/r/chicago/co...
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For MAS Context, I investigated what happened to Gerri's Palm Tavern, a legendary Bronzeville venue established in 1933 that survived World Wars, urban renewal, disinvestment, and urban attrition, but ended up a victim of aldermanic prerogative, and an ill conceived development plan.
What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?
Gerri Oliver stewarded Chicago’s Palm Tavern, a storied Bronzeville venue rooted in the Jim Crow era, for nearly seventy years until a convergence of…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For MAS Context, I investigated what happened to Gerri's Palm Tavern, a legendary Bronzeville venue established in 1933 that survived World Wars, urban renewal, disinvestment, and urban attrition, but ended up a victim of aldermanic prerogative, and an ill conceived development plan.
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wish these articles got straight to the point. "why aren't you giving us all your money" just say it man. you know you want to
![An article with the headline "[US people] are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jye22xkea3jqsabskhfec347/bafkreigunh6t53vvgp2sewo2fsy4xttrwgy3zrdwplje7j2qjop5jdeyxy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
wish these articles got straight to the point. "why aren't you giving us all your money" just say it man. you know you want to
Seems like a psyop. . . . Is that James Jesus Angleton’s walk up music I hear???????
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Seems like a psyop. . . . Is that James Jesus Angleton’s walk up music I hear???????
This is how Chicagoans react to being harassed. This is how we escalate. This is how we win.
Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
This is how Chicagoans react to being harassed. This is how we escalate. This is how we win.
An abomination unto god
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 AM
An abomination unto god
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The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The irony of these people complaining about the invented dangers of immigrants and then welcoming brain pollution from overseas hustlers.
"And I came up with this idea. . . the workers. . . the workers, why don't they own the factory? Chuck Schumer says it's a stupid idea, but folks, we're going to do it better than it's ever been done before."
This is very simple: Trump has no real ideology!
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
"And I came up with this idea. . . the workers. . . the workers, why don't they own the factory? Chuck Schumer says it's a stupid idea, but folks, we're going to do it better than it's ever been done before."
This is very simple: Trump has no real ideology!
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is very simple: Trump has no real ideology!
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"Proletariat." The first time I heard that I said wow, what a beautiful word. And you're going to be seeing class solidarity that's stronger, probably, than ever before
November 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"Proletariat." The first time I heard that I said wow, what a beautiful word. And you're going to be seeing class solidarity that's stronger, probably, than ever before
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Archeologists Gen Z
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Is it a ritual?
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Is it a ritual?
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Archeologists Gen Z
🤝
Is it a ritual?
🤝
Is it a ritual?
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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The Lancet: Architecture of mental health
Substandard housing is a significant public health
issue—insufficient space, restrictive layouts, low levels of sunlight & natural ventilation & inability to control privacy adversely impact quality of life & mental health www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
Substandard housing is a significant public health
issue—insufficient space, restrictive layouts, low levels of sunlight & natural ventilation & inability to control privacy adversely impact quality of life & mental health www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
November 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Lancet: Architecture of mental health
Substandard housing is a significant public health
issue—insufficient space, restrictive layouts, low levels of sunlight & natural ventilation & inability to control privacy adversely impact quality of life & mental health www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
Substandard housing is a significant public health
issue—insufficient space, restrictive layouts, low levels of sunlight & natural ventilation & inability to control privacy adversely impact quality of life & mental health www.thelancet.com/action/showP...
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they are hemorrhaging support. there is dissent in their ranks. they wilt in front of our discipline.
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CBP reportedly pulling out after a week in Charlotte.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
they are hemorrhaging support. there is dissent in their ranks. they wilt in front of our discipline.
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The Haitian Revolution (1804) is the most memory-holed and anonymous event that still completely defines reactionary grievance. Whether Fuentes, et al., have ever heard of it or not, they’re still reacting to it.
Gavin and Tanner, planned and trained for nearly a year, legal documents say, in an elaborate attempt to invade a Haitian island, kill its Black men, enslave its Black women and Black children and fulfill their "rape fantasies."
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
www.fox4news.com/news/haitian...
NTX men planned to murder men, enslave women on foreign island: Indictment
Two North Texas men have been indicted for an alleged scheme to sail to a foreign island, murder all the men, and enslave the women and children.
www.fox4news.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Haitian Revolution (1804) is the most memory-holed and anonymous event that still completely defines reactionary grievance. Whether Fuentes, et al., have ever heard of it or not, they’re still reacting to it.
My first for @gsd.harvard.edu, on the shifts—material, moral, and otherwise—inherent to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/rev...
Architecture’s Mercurial Moment: The GSD at the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial
The 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, with many projects by GSD affiliates, shows the field at a mercurial moment.
www.harvarddesignmagazine.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
My first for @gsd.harvard.edu, on the shifts—material, moral, and otherwise—inherent to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/articles/rev...
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i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
i don't know how to phrase this delicately, but i just want to communicate to young white men in incel-adjacent spaces that this sort of behavior will solve your problems
Trump. . . AI. . . . the national mood is drenched in flop sweat
I just went to sign up for a relatively well known design competition...and you have to use AI?!
November 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trump. . . AI. . . . the national mood is drenched in flop sweat