The proposed Soldier Field addition in Chicago, Illinois by Wood + Zapata, of Boston, and local architect Dirk Lohan of Lohan Associates, is the most controversial project in Chicago since Helmut Jahn's State of Illinois Building (now Jarmes R. Thompson Center) was built in 1985. In the latter the public was offended by the non-contextual design, a steel and reflective glass shell with a curved, stepped setback, drawing responses that it resembled an alien craft landing in the loop. While the proposed addition to Soldier Field has also been called an alien spaceship, the design is only a small part of the controversy over the addition, with issues of transportation, scale and, primarily, the use of lakefront property also being raised. Definitely worthy of the controversy, the City of Chicago's attempt to add to an historical structure raises questions about history's, corporations', and public space's relationship to the city. Soldier Field Addition......Chicago, Illinois