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Thompson CenterLatest Stories

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So Long, Sbarro

Chicago’s Big Tech architectural marvel is an adaptive reuse win, but it could be a loss for the public

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Rabbit Rabbit

Daily digest: Jean Dubuffet sculpture to depart Chicago’s Thompson Center, inaugural Design Miami/Paris fair nixed, and more

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A New Era

Google will occupy Chicago’s Thompson Center beginning in 2026

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The Color Scheme Kinda Works ...

Google remains mum as rumors of a future move into Chicago’s Thompson Center swirl

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Hope 2022 Is Better

Here are AN’s top stories of 2021

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But It's Sticking Around

Illinois will sell the Thompson Center for $70 million

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Making Helmut Proud

Winning designs revealed for the Thompson Center Design Ideas Competition

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Won't You Be My Nabr?

Daily digest: Bjarke Ingels co-launches “design living” venture, finalists announced in Thompson Center design competition, and more

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Postmodern Protagonist

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

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Ideas Wanted

The 2021 Chicago Prize Competition tasks designers with reimagining an imperiled Thompson Center

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And the Fight Begins

Illinois officially puts Chicago’s imperiled Thompson Center up for sale

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The Clock is Ticking

Potential demise of Chicago’s Thompson Center inches closer with proposed zoning change

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To Protect and Preserve

Helmut Jahn pitches proposal to save Chicago’s Thompson Center

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Love It or List It

Chicago’s Thompson Center is up for sale

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Landmark It Now!

Sale of Chicago’s iconic Thompson Center delayed through 2019

(Courtesy Landmarks Illinois)
Tower Topped

Helmut Jahn’s Thompson Center reimagined in new renderings by Landmarks Illinois

Starship Chicago

New doc spotlights Helmut Jahn’s threatened Thompson Center

Quid Pro Quo

Illinois Governor ransoms Thompson Center for public school money

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