SOM unveils office tower with luxury amenities for Chicago
Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has revealed an 18-storey office block planned for Chicago, including a terrace that overlooks the city's trendy West Loop neighbourhood. More
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The Proxi restaurant occupies former printing house in Chicago
Mid-century-style lamps hang above burnt orange leather booths inside this restaurant in Chicago, designed by New York-based studio Meyer Davis in an old printing house. More
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Yesomi Umolu named artistic director for Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019
Chicago-based "visionary curator" Yesomi Umolu has been announced as the artistic director for city's third architecture biennial, taking place next year. More
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New lobby and social hub by A+I opens in Chicago's historic Merchandise Mart
Manhattan studio A+I has overhauled the entrance and lobby of the vast Chicago Merchandise Mart, using mirrored surfaces and metallic details to link its spaces together. More
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Drone footage captures bustling Chicago Riverwalk one year after completion
This drone footage shows the promenade along Chicago's riverfront, a year after its transformation by firms Sasaki and Ross Barney Architects into a public space with fishing platforms and kayaking spots. More
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"There is no need to destroy one significant cultural legacy in order to celebrate another"
The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. More
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Obamas reveal more details and images for Presidential Center in Chicago
Barack and Michelle Obama have released a set of new renderings and a movie showing the cultural complex celebrating his presidency, which is to be built on Chicago's South Side. More
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Barkow Leibinger clads Rust Belt factory in oxidised steel
German architecture firm Barkow Leibinger has wrapped an angular showroom and office building on the outskirts of Chicago in weathering steel. More
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Vladimir Radutny honours Mies' minimalism at renovated Lake Shore Drive apartment
Architect Vladimir Radutny has renovated an apartment in the iconic 860-880 Lake Shore Drive complex by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, using a restrained palette to show off the architecture and the views. More
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Movie protests demolition of Helmut Jahn's Thompson Center in Chicago
Filmmaker Nathan Eddy has released a movie showcasing architect Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago, in a bid to protect the postmodern government building from demolition. More
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Macbook-shaped roof tops Foster + Partners' glazed Apple Store in Chicago
Foster + Partners has designed its "most ambitious" Apple Store for Chicago, with huge glass walls and a slender roof that looks like a scaled-up version of the company's laptop computer. More
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10 significant buildings to visit during Open House Chicago 2017
Open House is taking place in Chicago this weekend and we've selected some of the best buildings to snoop around, including a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house, a pink-hued apartment block, and studios of the city's prominent architects. More
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Ace Hotel Chicago features colourful mid-century-style interiors by Commune
Los Angeles studio Commune Design has used vibrant modernist furnishings to decorate the Ace Hotel in Chicago, in a nod to the city's architectural history. More
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"Chicago Biennial shows us how we might find building blocks for a new architecture"
This year's Chicago Biennial doesn't provide a blueprint for the future of architecture, but it does offer clues for how to create one, says Aaron Betsky. More
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Artek and Bless present fur-covered and marble furniture at Chicago Architecture Biennial
Finnish furniture company Artek has collaborated with fashion label Bless to dress up a collection of seats, which form a decadent lounge at this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial. More
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"Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks"
The second Chicago Architecture Biennial tackles the broad and tempestuous topic of history, but plays it too safe, says Mimi Zeiger in this Opinion column. More
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Caruso St John, Hélène Binet and Thomas Demand collaborate on architectural models, photographs and installation
Caruso St John has teamed up with architectural photographer Hélène Binet and artist Thomas Demand for an exhibition made entirely from paper and cardboard at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More
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Francois Perrin installs cooling Air Houses in Chicago conservatory
Los Angeles-based artist Francois Perrin has created a set of structures designed for keeping cool in our warming climate, and hoisted them above the palms at Chicago's Garfield Park Conservatory. More
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SO-IL and Ana Prvački create air-filtering costumes for Chicago Biennial musical performance
US architecture firm SO-IL has continued its exploration of material skins that filter the air with a set of costumes for a musical performance during the Chicago Architecture Biennial, which opens to the public today. More
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Obama calls on architecture and tech firms to support Chicago presidential library with apprenticeship schemes
Barack Obama has urged top architecture studios and tech firms like Amazon, Google and Microsoft to take on paid apprentices from Chicago's South Side at a public consultation event for the Obama Presidential Library. More
