Credit: Alisa Hauser/Block Club Chicago Sarah Weis in her white room. Weis also loves white and dedicated an entire room of her apartment to it, including white marble tile flooring. I always have and I always will love pink, it’s one of those staple colors if you like to celebrate femininity and fun.” When asked what she likes about pink (which is her third favorite color after white and lavender), Weis said, “Pink is so classically feminine, it’s bright and poppy. She uses a color from Benjamin Moore she’s dubbed “sexy pink.” Credit: Alisa Hauser/Block Club Chicago Weis keeps a spare can of “sexy pink” around for touchups. Credit: Alisa Hauser/Block Club Chicago Sarah Weis’ apartment walls and curtains are pink, too.Ībout six months ago, Weis, who said she’s constantly updating her apartment, added powder-coated window bars to match a fence in front of the building, which has strands of fake pearls woven through it. Credit: Alisa Hauser/Block Cub Chicago Pink bedroom walls and a pink fur entryway in Sarah Weis’s apartment. The entryway features pink faux fur covered walls. On a recent tour, Weis, an artist and creative director, said, “It’s really a white house with pink accents, but everyone calls it the pink house.” Credit: Alisa Hauser/Block Club Chicago Keith Miller allowed his tenant Sarah Weis to express her creativity on the facade of the apartment building she lives in.Īccording to Miller, the multi-unit Wicker Park apartment building was gray when he bought it in 1998 from previous owners who were born in the building and had lived there their entire lives. Sarah Weis in front of her pink-accented apartment in Wicker Park. Block Club Chicago checked in with some of the people responsible for the jolts of color. The doll house is just one of several pink or pink-accented houses sprinkled across Chicago, adding dollops of colors to the city’s not-as-cheerful landscape. She does a lot of creative things with the fence and the house. She has great creative abilities and some think she’s a little weird, but I highly respect her for being a unique personality. Miller credits his tenant Sarah Weis for the look, which started to evolve four years ago when Weis moved in. The building’s owner, Keith Miller, said he was not aware of that nickname, but agreed a dollhouse “sounds about right.” Some of the parents and children who hang out in the park have unofficially named the can’t-miss building in the 1300 block of Dean Street “the doll house,” according to resident Leah Root. Pink, purple and white striped awning hangs over the door. The only president to live in the Casa Rosada was Roque Sáenz Peña, between 19.WEST TOWN - Across the street from Wicker Park’s Dean Park, there’s an otherwise drab gray apartment building jazzed up with a hot pink door and pale purple trim.Ī sign on the door says “ladies” and a crystal door handle is reminiscent of a vintage powder room.The central archway was designed by Italian architect Francisco Tamburini, who was also responisble for the original design of the Colon Theatre, and was completed in 1890. ![]() Another popular explanation for the building's distinctive colour is that it was at one painted with cows' blood as an alternative to paint because paint pealed in the humidity. His successor Domingo Faustino Sarmiento later expanded the building and is believed to have ordered it to be painted pink in an attempt to diffuse political tensions by mixing the colours of the opposing political parties (the Federals used red, while the Unitarians used white). After independence, the fort was redeveloped into a customs house by British architect Edward Taylor, and later, in 1862, the building was chosen by President Bartolomé Mitre to be the seat of his government. ![]() The Casa Rosada was constructed on the site of a fort established by the Spanish in 1580 and used by the Spanish colonial viceroys. The museum is open Wednesday - Sunday, and on public holidays, 10am - 6pm (last entry at 5,30pm). ![]() It explores the history of Argentina, from colonial times to the present, and houses the remains of the original walls of the former customs house, as well as an acclaimed mural created by Mexican artist David Alfaro Siquieros. The Casa Rosada Museum, behind the palace itself, stands on the spot occupied by the original colonial fort of Buenos Aires. You need to reserve a place through the website: and take your passport with you. Scene of much of the city's history, it was from the balconies of the Casa Rosada that Juan and “Evita” Perón addressed the masses during the late 1940s and early 1950s.įree guided tours in English and Spanish. Dominating the Plaza de Mayo, the Casa Rosada - or pink house - is the seat of the Argentine national government and houses the president's office.
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