Design with Company Fashions an Architectural Garden Party for the Ragdale...
Called the “Serpentine Pavilion of the Midwest” by some, the annual Ragdale Ring Pavilion opened in Chicago in mid-June. The project was designed by Allison Newmeyer and Stewart Hicks of Design with...
View Article10 Highlights from the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Courtesy Steve Hall/Chicago Architecture Biennial Any architecture biennial worth its salt is a sprawling, unruly beast, with size enough for surreal thought experiments, art devoid of function, and...
View ArticleAlejandro Aravena Awarded Pritzker Prize
Alejandro Aravena, the 2016 Pritzker Prize winner Courtesy Cristobal Palma With this year’s Pritzker Prize awarded to Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, 2016 will be remembered as the year...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright Through the Eyes of His European Admirers
A small exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago unpacks the early 20th-century Dutch magazine Wendingen’s obsession with the American master. Above: A 1921 cover design by El Lissitzky All cover images...
View ArticleWetland Restoration: A New Driver for Development in China?
The bird viewing corridor is designed to blend into its surroundings, and to reduce impact of pedestrian traffic on bird habitat and activity. Courtesy AECOM In China, when it’s time to build a new...
View ArticleArchitecture Isn’t the Villain of "High-Rise"—We Are
In High-Rise, the titular luxury residential tower is crowned by an elaborate roof garden, complete with a thatch-roofed cottage. ©StudioCanal For a different take on High-Rise, see our review of the...
View ArticleStudio Gang’s Latest Residential Tower Fosters Neighborliness
Courtesy Tom Harris As a building type, the high-rise embodies both technical sophistication and something of the architect’s own ego. Yet few architects make their name as creators of consistently...
View ArticleFrank Lloyd Wright Was a Proto-Algorithmic Architect
Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York) Frank Lloyd Wright’s field of influence is...
View ArticleDoes Apple’s New Chicago Store Have Something to Say About the Future of Cities?
The new store is located at the edge of the Chicago River. Courtesy Nigel Young/Foster + Partners The steel and carbon fiber roof of Chicago’s new Apple store is a few feet thick at its center,...
View ArticleAt the Venice Biennale, Jeanne Gang Uses Memphis’s Cobblestones to Reflect on...
Architect Jeanne Gang’s contribution to the U.S. Pavilion recreates a portion of Memphis Landing. © Tom Harris, courtesy of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago...
View ArticleChicago Exhibit Spotlights Charlotte Perriand’s Alpine Ski Resort
At Les Arcs, a resort in the French Alps, Perriand led a team of designers that tackled everything from the wood-grained terraced superstructures that stepped down the mountains, to her own furniture...
View ArticleSOM Thinks Autonomous Vehicles Could Rapidly Change How Cities Grow and Develop
SOM’s Autonomous Vehicle transit research project Courtesy SOM Chicago’s UI Labs is a high-tech makerspace and fabrication lab that enlists experts from government, industry, academia, and the public...
View ArticleWill the Culture of Good Taste Devour McDonald’s?
Carol Ross Barney designed this new McDonald’s in downtown Chicago. Courtesy McDonald’s At a new corporate headquarters in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, there’s a double-height lobby filled with...
View ArticleLandscape May Be Architects’ Best Tool for Tackling Inequality
The Chicago Riverwalk, designed in part by Ross Barney Architects (RBA) and Sasaki. Courtesy Kate Joyce Often described as the most American of American cities, Chicago has developed a particularly...
View ArticleJust In: Storefront for Art and Architecture Names New Executive Director
Courtesy Ana Hop After a six-month search, José Esparza Chong Cuy has been named the new executive director of New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture. The curator and critic, who currently...
View ArticleLife After the Death of the Office: Avoiding Ubiquitous Workplace Design in a...
Gensler’s office for Wilson Sporting Goods, in Chicago’s Loop Courtesy Tom Harris Today’s employees want to live, work, and play all in a few blocks’ radius. For corporations asking how they can...
View ArticleWith Haus Gables, Architect Jennifer Bonner Celebrates and Critiques the...
Haus Gables both fits in with its neighbors in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward and stands apart from them. The house, designed by architect Jennifer Bonner, looks to the single-family-home typology as a...
View ArticleFor the Atlanta-Based Firm BLDGS, No Building Is Beyond Rescuing
Founded by architects Brian Bell and David Yocum, BLDGS is a small Atlanta firm specializing in adaptive reuse, a strategy applied with great acuity at Georgia Tech’s Van Leer Interdisciplinary Design...
View ArticleSunlight and Landscape Views Shape Studio Gang’s Latest Chicago Tower
Solstice on the Park is situated a few blocks from the University of Chicago’s campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood. It boasts views of Jackson Park and Lake Michigan. Courtesy Tom Harris Solstice on...
View ArticleThe Deep Value of Community Engagement in Urban Planning
A designer at SmithGroup’s Chicago office highlights materials from the firm’s in-house library. Courtesy Travis Frangie – SmithGroup A protracted real estate fight loomed over a recent Metropolis...
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