Architecture and Design
The annual free event is intended to highlight the city’s well-known architecture by showcasing culturally, historically and architecturally significant sites.
The city plans to seek proposals to reuse or raze the 44-year-old convention center. Our architecture critic says reuse.
Something to consider as a new academic year gets underway: Chicago Public Schools are among the city’s most architecturally distinctive buildings. And the best of these are the 40 buildings designed by architect Dwight Perkins.
The new 19-gate terminal — which promises daylit interiors, natural plantings, 20,000 square feet of lounge space, and even a children’s play area — would be a worthy addition to O’Hare.
The new exterior glass is expected to help keep the building cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. But it certainly changes the structure’s look and feel.
An architecture firm and an engineering company created the proposals on their own, not for a prospective client. Their work represents the type of thinking needed to generate some excitement around the vacant landmark.
Suggestions include fewer big events that limit park access for days, burying DuSable Lake Shore Drive and more bathrooms.
Demolished in 1952, the u-shaped building was once the world’s largest apartment building and an incubator for influential Black artists during the early 20th century.
On Aug. 8, 1925, tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members marched in Washington, an event that carries implications today, if we are allowed to learn about it.
If realized, the development could be a game-changer for Chicago State, primarily a commuter university largely secreted on a wooded 161-acre campus at 95th Street and Martin Luther King Drive.
DuSable Lake Shore Drive could be sunken and capped-over to improve pedestrian access between Buckingham Fountain and the lake under the Grant Park Framework Plan now being developed.
The world has changed since the library’s 1991 debut. Can the library’s programming and design change also?
Over a career that spanned 60 years, Van Osdel is credited with designing over 800 structures, including the interior of Church of the Holy Family, which survived the 1871 Great Chicago Fire.
The Sun-Times is holding its first — and possibly last — Chicago River architectural cruise and roast on Aug. 21 featuring Lee Bey and, ahem, me. Good news: it’ll be great. Bad news: tickets sold out in a couple hours.
The much-needed fabrication work has not been approved or funded, despite pulling the artwork off its home on West Jackson Boulevard in March.
The $150,000 grant will help the 86-year-old Bronzeville church — a popular spot on architecture tours — develop its first comprehensive preservation plan.
Built along I-290, the training center was designed with a certain grace and beauty that’s worth the gapers’ block it might cause.
If the mall can’t be saved, a well-designed industrial campus that also makes room for worker housing and other amenities would be a plus for the community.
The final act of Chicago’s Damen Silos, star of movies, hip-hop videos and architectural photography
Some artists are paying their “respects” to the abandoned grain silos that for decades stood as icons of Midwest decay and as inspiration for urban explorers.