On the heels of Prentice Hospital and the Hull House theater, Edo Belli's mid-20th-century Cuneo Hospital complex is headed for destruction.
by Deanna Isaacs
Back in 1983, when he was interviewed for the Art Institute's Chicago Architects Oral History Project, Edo Belli, the most important Chicago architect you've probably never heard of, told a charming story about how he became the chosen architect for the archdiocese of Chicago and wound up designing Uptown's Cuneo Hospital and scads of other Catholic institutions in the city and beyond. Cuneo Hospital is that big, glassy sweep of a building that curves around the corner of Montrose and Clarendon, looking like the grandpap of 333 West Wacker.…[ Read more ]