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Proposals currently on tap for the trendy corridor include a massive tech incubator, more office space, and a 17-story hotel.
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This week, the Chicago Architecture Center is teaming up with WBEZ’s Curious City for an exciting evening event at which a group of prominent Chicago designers will battle for trivia honors in a live
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A long-discussed plan to build a five-story, mixed-use development topped by artist housing in Humboldt Park reached a key milestone on Wednesday as the Chicago City Council approved financial support
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Rents up in Rogers Park, Bronzeville Rents in the historically affordable neighborhoods of Rogers Park and Bronzeville have spiked over the last year, particularly near CTA stations, according to a st
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The school that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built has a new leader: The Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago has named Reed Kroloff as dean of the College of Architecture. Kroloff, who has a B.A.
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As part of a masterplan along the Chicago River, the River Beech Tower is a residential high-rise which, if built, would be taller than any existing timber building. The collaborative team behind Rive
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Three new leaders were elected to The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Board of Directors at the AIA Conference on Architecture 2019 (A’19). At the meeting, AIA delegates elected: Peter Exley,
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During this cycle, developers have been eager to deliver big box industrial buildings to feed the voracious appetite of large users. However, the banquet may be oversupplied, as the number of large, s
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As the International Interior Design Association celebrates its 25th anniversary, its annual Interior Design Competition continues to recognize and encourage innovation in the design and furnishing of
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"This is an up-and-coming neighborhood that's coming up fast," Sawsan Jawdat says as she shows a visitor around a house at 4607 S. Calumet Ave., one of four in a row she built on this block of Bronzev
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Construction firms across the U.S. continue to battle a skilled labor shortage that is pushing project deadlines and costs in a negative direction. In mid-2018, the Associated General Contractors of A
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Luftwerk’s year-long exploration of architecture by Mies Van Der Rohe began with a geometric grid of red lazers, lighting up the Barcelona Pavilion. Later this year, their homage to mies will end with
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Money to support a McCormick Place expansion would be raised by expanding a 1% tax on restaurant meals and drinks under legislation adopted Wednesday in the Illinois Senate. The proposal, which has st
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It has also confirmed the appointment the lead architect. Studio ORD joint venture will drive the design of theexpansion programme, which is known as O’Hare 21. The appointment of Studio ORD had been
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Vying for $2,000 in cash prizes, collaboration with a Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) partner, and a pat on the back from former Mayor Rahm Emanuel, sixty-one student teams from forty-two Illinois
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Chicago developers are making bold plays to turn long-vacant brownfield sites, obsolete industrial corridors, and underutilized historic buildings into megadevelopments. The recent push to “go big or
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The 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, titled …and other such stories, will present work that explores architecture as it relates to social, political, and environmental issues. Curators Yesomi Umolu
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Perkins + Will is an eighty-year-old architecture firm with noteworthy designs across the world, including the 850-foot Chase Tower in Chicago, where the firm is based. Its architects have designed un
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Energy storage firm Sonnen has partnered with Evolutionary Home Builders and Brandon Weiss to unveil the sonnenCommunity initiative. The initiative will result in the development of first-of-its-kind
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As the world moves to a zero-carbon future, cities will be key places to transform–particularly buildings, which account for more than half of emissions in most cities. Reinventing Cities, a competiti
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The wave of store closures over the past several years has begun making an impact on Chicago’s retail market, Marcus & Millichap reported. Space is being absorbed more slowly than in prior years, espe
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CHICAGO, May 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Though audio has always been close to Tim Pickett's heart, listening to intuition over the buzz of industry standard has been his loudest proponent. As Founder an
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Skender’s first customer, prolific Chicago developer Sterling Bay, plans to bring 10 three-flat, affordable-rate apartment buildings to vacant lots in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago’s
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On Wednesday, the mayor’s office announced Chicago’s Garfield Green housing proposal was selected as a winner in C40’s global Reinventing Cities competition. Now, the design team will take steps to ma
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