When Buildings Quit Being Built or 'Accidental Architecture'

Additional thanks and praise to Lisa Santoro who finally provided us with a phrase we’d been hunting for after learning last month that the Shangri-La Hotel here in Chicago had been halted while the building was still finishing construction (Santiago Calatrava‘s Chicago Spire doesn’t count because it’s still just a big empty hole). We’re going with her term from here on out: “accidental architecture,” which describes buildings which were planned, started, but wound up greatly altered once the money ran out.