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Elizabeth Blasius

Elizabeth Blasius

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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

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

What Chicago loses when it loses an architecture critic

Exterior photo of the Wisner-Pilger Public School
Rural Excellence

New school ties together Nebraska towns torn apart by tornados

Photo of the facade of Space p11
Staying in the Loop

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

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

Change the Canvas, Change the World

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

Photo of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum
Allied Victory

National Veterans Memorial and Museum opens in Columbus, Ohio

Aerial view of Lincoln Yards site
Sterling Bay Does the Hard Yards

Lincoln Yards cuts plans for soccer stadium and large entertainment venue

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

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Protecting Pilsen

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

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

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

Model photograph of the Obama Presidential Center
Obama Comma

Obama Presidential Center takes a step forward, yet obstacles remain

The Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut
"I'm a Whore"

Just how much of a Nazi was Philip Johnson?

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

Back to the Drawing Board

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

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?

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

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