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interior photograph of an airport concourse with purple neon tubing and colorful side walls designed by helmut jahn

Postmodern Protagonist

Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture is a greatest hits album, not an anthology

August 4, 2021 • Architecture, Editor's Picks, Midwest, Preservation, Review

The chicago skyline, a city now devoid of an architecture critic

More Than Words

What Chicago loses when it loses an architecture critic

January 26, 2021 • Editor's Picks, Letter to the Editor, Media, Midwest

Exterior photo of the Wisner-Pilger Public School

Rural Excellence

New school ties together Nebraska towns torn apart by tornados

February 28, 2019 • Architecture, Midwest, Open

Photo of the facade of Space p11

Staying in the Loop

Space p11 adds to Chicago’s underground art and architecture scene

February 27, 2019 • Interiors, Midwest, On View, Open

Photo of Paul Vallas, Robert Fioretti, and Lori Lightfoot collaged into the Chicago skyline

Ballad of the Ballot

Mayoral hopefuls talk architecture and policy before Chicago votes

February 15, 2019 • Midwest, Professional Practice, Q+A

Change the Canvas, Change the World

Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center looks at life during the Great Migration

January 22, 2019 • Art, Highlight, Midwest

Photo of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum

Allied Victory

National Veterans Memorial and Museum opens in Columbus, Ohio

January 21, 2019 • Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Midwest, Open

Aerial view of Lincoln Yards site

Sterling Bay Does the Hard Yards

Lincoln Yards cuts plans for soccer stadium and large entertainment venue

January 10, 2019 • Development, Midwest, News

Still from the City of Chicago's bid video for HQ2

Welcome to Amazon International Airport!

Released documents detail elements of Chicago’s bid for Amazon HQ2

January 2, 2019 • Midwest, News, Urbanism

Protecting Pilsen

Chicago aims to preserve the vernacular architecture in its largest Mexican-American community

December 13, 2018 • Midwest, News, Preservation, Urbanism

Photo of Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line) at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

To Chicago with Love

U.S. Pavilion from Venice Biennale announces upcoming debut in Chicago

December 4, 2018 • Architecture, International, Midwest, News

Photo of the 160-foot atrium of Helmut Jahn's 1985 James R. Thompson Center.

Landmark It Now!

Sale of Chicago’s iconic Thompson Center delayed through 2019

November 21, 2018 • Midwest, News, Preservation

Model photograph of the Obama Presidential Center

Obama Comma

Obama Presidential Center takes a step forward, yet obstacles remain

November 9, 2018 • Development, Midwest, News

The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut

"I'm a Whore"

Just how much of a Nazi was Philip Johnson?

November 6, 2018 • Architecture, National

Rendering of the tower to rise at the former Hudson's department store site in Detroit

Detroit's Tall Tale

Detroit to host Michigan’s tallest building at former Hudson’s site

November 6, 2018 • Architecture, Midwest, News

Back to the Drawing Board

SOM’s proposed megatower on the Chicago Spire site rejected by alderman

October 26, 2018 • Architecture, Development, Midwest, News, Skyscrapers

Mayor Rahm Emanuel takes a moment to himself on the Chicago Riverwalk during a visit from the mayor of Hamburg, Germany.

Rahm for Improvement

What will be Rahm Emanuel’s legacy on Chicago’s architecture?

October 23, 2018 • Development, Midwest, News, Urbanism

Art on the Mart turns Chicago's hulking Merchandise Mart into the world's largest digital art projection. (Courtesy of Art on the Mart/Bob Grosse)

Chi-Lite-Bright

Art on theMART turns Chicago’s Merchandise Mart into an architectural canvas

October 17, 2018 • Architecture, Art, Midwest, Technology

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