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Construction management teams named for $8.5bn Chicago airport expansion
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 …
View Mies' McCormick House in Chicago Through Cubes of Color and Light
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 …
Fueling Up: Exploring Ideas about Architecture and the Built Environment at the Chicago Architecture Biennial’s Student Ideas Competition
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 …
These 15 urban design projects are reinventing cities for a zero-carbon future
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 …
Chicago Architecture Biennial announces this year's participants
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 …
How modular manufacturing could solve Chicago’s affordable housing crisis
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 …
At The Forefront Of Smart Building, By Building Smart
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 …
Chicago developing the most sustainable passive home community
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 …
Chicago Retail Adjusts to Influx of Big-Box Closures
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 …
Chicago Opens New Libraries and Affordable Housing Projects After Design Competition
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 …
Affordable housing development in Logan Square wins alderman’s blessing
A plan to build a new seven-story, 100 percent affordable housing development next to the Logan Square Blue Line stop is advancing after 35th Ward Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa said he will recommend t …
Landmarks Commission OK’s push to preserve Pilsen’s historic buildings
The city took a significant step towards establishing a landmark district in Pilsen despite a lukewarm reception from the alderman-elect and the objections of a small-but-vocal group of residents. On …
Chicago’s Garfield Green development proposal wins global design competition
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 …
Affordable housing that doesn't look like the usual
In the past three decades, one Chicago architecture firm has designed about 5,000 units of affordable housing in the city. The firm is proud of the figure, though “it’s nothing compared to the number …
“CONNECT THE DOTS” wins 2018 Chicago Prize: Crossing the Line competition
“CONNECT THE DOTS” was recently revealed as the winning entry of the 2018 Chicago Prize. Based on the Chicago Architectural Club's yearlong “Crossing the Line” theme, the latest edition of the biennia …
The Business Enterprise Programme – Assisting businesses owned by minorities in Illinois
Did you know…the State of Illinois purchased billions worth of products and services during fiscal year 2017 to run social service facilities, office buildings, garages, state parks and more. Products …
$500M Willis Tower renovation shows off curvy new skylight
As construction on the 300,000-square-foot “Catalog” addition at the base of Willis Tower progresses, crews recently completed the large curving skylight capping the project’s upcoming retail and dini …
Chicago Finds a Way to Improve Public Housing: Libraries
CHICAGO — Cabrini-Green, the Robert Taylor Homes: demolished years ago, Chicago’s most notorious projects continue to haunt the city, conjuring up the troubled legacy of postwar public housing in Amer …
Architects chosen to design Chicago university’s arts center
The New York-based firm OMA and Chicago-based KOO has been named the winner of an international competition to design an innovative ‘Center for the Arts’ on the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) …
A closer look at Chicago’s newly completed ‘Riverwalk East’ improvements
On Monday, the City of Chicago announced the completion of the $12 million revamp of the easternmost segment of the Chicago Riverwalk, located between Michigan Avenue and Lake Shore Drive. A stroll th …
‘The Paragon’ brings sculptural design, high-tech apartments to the South Loop
After two years of construction, The Paragon—the South Loop’s newest and arguably most technologically advanced apartment tower—is officially open for business. The 47-story, 500-unit building from Mu …
DoVA collaboration with Lect. Amber Ginsburg creates teaching space and gallery
A nondescript shipping container sits just to the west of the Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, painted black and framed from 60th Street by flora and trees. A modest structure c …
Developer plans 33-story Fulton River District apartment tower
When big office towers rise in a neighborhood, apartment developers aren’t far behind. All those office workers need a place to live, after all. That’s the thinking behind a 33-story apartment tower C …
4 women architects in Chicago history you should know

4 women architects in Chicago history you should know

09 May 2019 Chicago Architecture Center
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ve compiled a list of four historic, trailblazing women architects who made their mark in Chicago.
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