Donald Trump Is Boring

That's really the case -- he's so predictable and so artificial that every Donald Trump headline I see elicits nothing more than a yawn.

And sort of apropos, we have a Trump Tower in Chicago. (Has any major city escaped?) It's on the river, just west of Michigan Avenue and sort of behind the Wrigley Building. The building itself is not what I'd call an architectural masterpiece (remember, this is Chicago, where we have an architectural masterpiece almost every block), but it's not the worst building in town. It still manages to be an eyesore: it's completely out of scale with its surroundings, and ignores the existing context -- it's a big, ungainly, bombastic blot on the landscape.

Keep in mind that this photo more or less flatters it, but you get the idea. It's even worse at street level.

Oh, and to have "TRUMP" two stories tall on the river side, pretty much at eye level for passing traffic, in an area where, if the buildings display a name at all, it will most likely be on a bronze plaque next to the entrance, or quietly stated above the entrance, or in extreme cases, blazoned across the top floors, is really a bit much.