Steinberg: Parabola not just a pretty shape

Follow @NeilSteinberg “Cool parabola,” I thought, when I first noticed the steel arch traced across the front of River Point, the new 52-story tower going up at 444 W. Lake. A very 1950s, Jet Age shape, the parabola, defining as it does the trajectory of a rocket in flight, “Gravity’s Rainbow,” to use Thomas Pynchon’s […]