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Farewell

Lynn Osmond is departing the Chicago Architecture Center after a transformative 25-year run

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Design Without Borders

Borderless Studio spans design disciplines to benefit underserved communities

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A New Era?

Chicago’s DuSable Park finally moves forward with Ross Barney Architects and Brook Architecture at the helm

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If The Lot Fits...

Future Firm’s Hem House offers a new housing model for residential lots in Chicago

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Good Bones

Detroit’s blighted Fisher Body Plant 21 will be transformed into sprawling residential complex

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Miesian Revival

A Mies van der Rohe-designed hall opens at Indiana University 70 years after the project was shelved

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Weaving Past And Future

Tsz Yan Ng blends textile methodologies with architectural production to find new ways to build

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New Leese on Life

Detroit puts $7 million in pandemic relief funds towards reviving iconic Lee Plaza

Sea Change

Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium announces $500 million makeover ahead of its 100th anniversary

River Saint Joe Brewery, a glass fronted barn
Drink Up

moss Design’s River Saint Joe Brewery puts industrial vernacular architecture to contemporary use

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Above And Below

The Illinois Capitol will get a renovation meant to last “150 years”

The new steppenwolf theater, a sloped glass volume at night
It’s Magic

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture’s expansion of the Steppenwolf Theatre brings the backstage to the house

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O Pioneros!

Chicago’s historic Pioneer Bank & Trust will be transformed into affordable housing

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Activating Asphalt

LAA Office brings “barn quilt urbanism” to downtown Salem, Indiana, with new Heritage Park

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Buckeye Blueprint

Columbus, Ohio, kicks off the new year with an ambitious plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions

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Gremlins in the Rearview

Detroit announces redevelopment of long-vacant American Motors Corporation site

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On Native Land

Chicago will fund the city’s first affordable housing complex for Indigenous residents

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But It's Sticking Around

Illinois will sell the Thompson Center for $70 million

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