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Show DAILY HERALD Sunday, September 11 2004 A3 Architect design building for the' homeless Nathaniel Hernandez THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Renowned architect Helmut Jahn has designed sleek, structures for bankers and office workers, dabbled in sports and entertainment venues and even erected a modern airline terminal. But one of his latest structures is an environmentally friendly structure intent on a larger purpose: housing the poor. Jahn's stainless steel and . aiiiic iviuui utcupuuuy 6m building is expected to be built next year on a vacant lot near the Cabrini-Gree- n housing project, which is gradually being torn down, The silver, Twinkie-shape-d structure will consist of 100 units, and includes public areas where residents can meet and socialize. But more important ry, homeless advocates say, it will draw attention to the "supportive housing movement," which promotes SRO buildings as a way to ease the homeless prob. ' lem. In supportive housing,, social services and counseling are offered on site and unlike at shelters the poor have a room to caD their own. "We didnt really start out to make something unique," Jahn sakL "We started out really ' with a room. We made a very efficient room." Jahn's design borrows heavily from the award-winnin-g plans he drafted for the dormitories about 7 miles south at the Illinois Institute of Technology, his alma mater . His plans for the Near North SRO include several energy; saving features like rooftop wind turbines and solar paneling to offset electricity costs, and a recycling system where rainwater would be collected on the building's roof and then used to flush toilets. Lakefront Supportive Housing, the company that will own and manage Near North Apartments, asked the Chicago-base- d Jahn to design the building beintercause of the section it will occupy. Division Street and Oybourn Avenue is an unofficial border separating Cabrini-Greewhich became a national symbol for the problems associated with public housing, from the affluent Old Town and Gold Coast neighborhoods. Demolition of the housing M. SPENCER BREENAssociated Press Architect Helmut Jahn walks through a vacant lot on Chicago's near north side on March 4, where he plans to build environmentally friendly housing for the poor. Jahn's stainless steel and glass "single room occupancy building is expected to be built next year. high-profi- projects began almost 10 years ago, and the neighborhood is now undergoing a mixed-incom- e redevelopment. "One of the things we wanted to demonstrate is the importance of good design in creating healthy communities," said Jean Butzen, Lakef ront's . Interest in SROs and supportive housing has grown as the Chicago Housing Authority has moved forward with an ambitious $1.5 billion program to rebuild or rehab 25,000 public housing units. Lee Bey, a former Chicago architecture critic, said Jahn's involvement shows Sun-Tim- Wiener, a spokeswoman for the Atlanta Housing Authority. "It's a much more vibrant community this way, you are exposing (the residents) to different types of communities," Weiner said. Roberta Feldman, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago who has studied the relationship between architecture and poverty, supports the emphasis "New Urbanism" places on good design but says good public policy is equally impor- tant. The German-borJahn came to Chicago in the 1960s to study at IIT. Illinoisans are probably most familiar with the $172 million State of Illinois Center he designed in downtown Chicago. Now called the James R. Thompson Center, the sloping, n glass-panele- was com- building d pleted in 1985. Near North, which would house a mix of existing CHA residents and homeless people, is expected to cost about $10 full-circ- million. "The goal is to take this small project, to make it an efficient building, to make it a building and to make it a very pleasant building to live in," Jahn said. . well-design- mid-1990- s, common to both presidential candidates Flip-floppi- ng Tom Raum THE 4k that urban planners realize the poor can no longer be housed in ' huge, isolated, high rises. "Housing of this sort can no longer be stuck on an island someplace," he said "Big cities went through this phase where we built housing of a last resort. And now cities like Chicago are stepping away from that, and that is a good thing " This "New Urban-ism-" trend is also apparent in cities like New York and Attowers lanta, where high-ris- e and concentrated poverty are being replaced by townhouses communiand mixed-incom-e ties. The push at the New York Housing Authority, which provides subsidized housing for' roughly 420,000 people, is for DuMngs that are similar in design to what the agency was constructing when it was first organized 70 years ago, said spokesman Howard Marder. "We kind of came to these townhouses and low-ris- e buildings," he said. The Atlanta Housing Authority, meanwhile, began replacing its dilapidated, crime-ridde- n "barrack-style- " properties with mixed-incom- e developments in the said Ann ASSOCIATED PRESS While working WASHINGTON relentlessly to portray Democratic Sea John Kerry as a President Bush has his own history of changing his position, from reversals " on steel tariffs and to reasons for invading Iraq. Most recently, Bush did an about- face on whether the proposed new director of.national intelligence should have full budget-makinpowers as the bipartisan Sept. 11 commission recommended. Bush at first indicated no, then last week said yes. Just as GOP efforts to question Kerry's military record in Vietnam helped revive nagging questions about Bush's service in the Air National Guard, the "flip flop" attacks on Kerry could an incumbent run-against boomerang . 1 : 1 rung on as recuru tuiu reputation us a ," "nation-building- 1 some political novelty stores are carryp sandals bearing Kerry's ing picture, and the theme is reinforced by late-nigcomedians. "Gee, I wonder if Bush will say the 'F in John F. Kerry stands for said NBCs Jay Leno after Kerry last week suggested the "W" in George W. Bush stood for "wrong." If he is a Kerry has company. I In 2000, Bush argued against new military entanglements and nation building. He's done both in Iraq. I He opposed a Homeland Security Department, then embraced it. I He opposed creation of an independent Sept. 11 commission, then supported it. He first refused to speak to its members, then agreed only if Vice President Dick Cheney came with him. I Bush argued for free trade, then tariffs on steel imimposed three-yea- r ports in 2002, only to withdraw them straight talker. "The guy who is the ultimate flip and flop is this sitting president," said Democratic Sea Joseph Biden of Delaware. Yet so far Democratic efforts to paint Bush as as one Democratic news release put it, have not seemed to have had much im-- . pact on the race. Republicans have been driving home their depiction of Kerry as a for months, in campaign ads, speeches and interviews. And polls suggest this line of attack is working. Far more voters give Bush high marks for being decisive than they do 75 percent, in Kerry. Three-fourththe latest Associated Press-Ipso- s poll said the president is decisive, up 7 percentage points from August, while 37 percent said Kerry is decisive, down 7 percentage points from a month ago. Republican audiences chant when Kerry is mentioned, flip-flo- flip-flop- ," er s, ; "flip-floppe- r" . after 21 months. I Last month, he said he doubted the war on terror could be won, then reversed himself to say it could and would. I A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." But he told reporters six months later, "I truly am not that concerned about him." He did not mention bin Laden in his hour-lon- g convention acceptance speech. "I'm a war president," Bush told NBCs "Meet the Press" on Feb. 8. But in a July 20 speech in Iowa, he said: "Nobody wants to be the war president. I want to be the peace president." Bush keeps revising his Iraq war rationale: The need to seize Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction until none were found; liberating the Iraqi people from a brutal dictator; fighting terrorists in Iraq not at home; spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. Now it's a safer America and a safer world. "No matter how many times Sen. we were right to Kerry make America safer by removing Saddam Hussein from power," he said last week in Missouri. Bush has changed his positions on new Clean Air Act restrictions, protecting the Social Security surplus, tobacco subsidies, the level of assistance to help combat AIDS in Africa, campaign finance overhaul and whether to negotiate with North Korean officials. But while Bush's policy shifts have been numerous and notable, Democrats haven't succeeded yet in tarring said American him as a University political scientist James Thurber. "Kerry has made some statements about it, but he doesn't have a clear strategy for hammering Back at the flip flops of the president," Thurber said. flip-flop- s, r, niMirvi dm s m FEB HP ililWtn Ts 0 ENTIRE ' S'l'f ;..'i'i.R SPORTSWEAR &ACCI CLEARANCE ORIG. 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