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Cork It

OMA / AMO transforms common materials into high-tech finishes for Stone Island Chicago

Bet On It

Chicago approves $1.7 billion riverfront casino complex designed by SCB

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Above and Below

Norman Kelley readies a Chicago loft for artful inhabitation

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Art for Mart’s Sake

A century of Chicago design history comes to life on the sprawling art deco facade of the iconic Merchandise Mart

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1958–2022

Successful Chicago architect Brad Lynch leaves behind a legacy of impressive built work and a reputation of generosity

The $2 Billion Question

Chicago critic Blair Kamin’s Who is the City For? takes aim at aesthetic bungles while thornier issues go largely unaddressed

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Incoming...

Eleanor Gorski named new chief executive of the Chicago Architecture Center

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Challenge Accepted

Illinois Institute of Technology among the first cohort of universities to receive DOE’s Zero Energy Design Designation

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Making Wind in the Windy City

Facades+ returns to Chicago on October 7

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Many Thanks!

Chicago’s first-ever sukkah design festival seeks to do social good in an under-resourced neighborhood

No Place Like Dome

OMA and Jacobs reveal design for the Discovery Partners Institute’s new riverfront home in Chicago

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Upward, with Form and Policy

IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs

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Black and Tan

Future Firm designs a stylish eatery for Chicago’s South Side Bronzeville neighborhood

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Mountains Mies, Mountains

Chicago artist Assaf Evron dresses up Crown Hall with an installation inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s collages

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Front of the CAB

Floating Museum tapped as artistic team for This is a Rehearsal, the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial

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A Den in the Burbs

Chicago Bears reveal tentative plans for mixed-use development in Arlington Heights anchored by domed stadium

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By the Graham

Graham Foundation reveals awardees of 2022 organization grants

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Cop Academy

An expanded scope for a training facility in Chicago raises questions about how—and if—architects should engage with carceral projects

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