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Chicago to convert office buildings into affordable housing

March 7, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The city of Chicago has announced the resumption of plans to convert a collection of empty office buildings in the city’s downtown into mixed-used and residential towers. The initiative, called LaSalle Street Reimagined, would convert nearly 2.3 million square feet (213,676 square metres) of vacant office buildings into residences and retail in the centre of

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

March 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade’s worth of revisions and delays. Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that

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The Row skyscraper by Morris Adjmi pays homage to Chicago’s heritage

January 10, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US firm Morris Adjmi Architects has designed a 43-storey residential skyscraper in Chicago with a “deeply expressive” facade that takes cues from the city’s industrial past and the work of architect Mies van der Rohe. The 480-foot (146-metre) building is located in Chicago’s Fulton Market District – a former meatpacking area that has undergone extensive

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Google and Jahn release images of Thompson Center redesign

December 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Tech company Google and architecture studio Jahn have released visualisations of the planned revamp of the James R Thompson Center, an iconic postmodern-style building in Chicago’s Downtown. The plans for the redesign retain the original rounded form and the 17-storey atrium inside. Its glass curtain wall will change, moving from the slightly darkened patterned glass

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Ross Barney Architects creates pavilion exploring “layers” of early Chicago

November 17, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion dedicated to Haitian entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler of Chicago, for the city’s architecture biennial. Parallel Histories is a pavilion made up of small, temporary structures representing the footprint of DuSable’s homestead, on a park that Ross Barney Architects is revamping where the Chicago

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Nine installations to see at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial

November 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial has opened with installations focusing on monumentality, race and material innovations on show at sites throughout Chicago. This year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, its fifth edition, focused on themes of collaboration and community building through architecture, with a series of exhibits adhering to the exhibition’s theme: This Is a Rehearsal. It was

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Ruth De Jong draws upon Nope set design for Chicago Architecture Biennial

November 10, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Production designer Ruth De Jong has installed a house modelled on her set design for director Jordan Peele’s film Nope at the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of a series of installations exploring horror and architecture. The installation is a life-size recreation of the facade and front porch of a ranch home featured prominently in

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Norman Teague displays prototype of Douglass monument in Chicago

November 9, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Norman Teague Design Studios has erected a plywood structure as a full-scale model of the future monument to American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass, for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The studio created the pavilion using wood, plastics and recycled materials to honour the legacy of American abolitionists Frederick and Anna Douglass. A copper version of

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Chicago Architecture Biennial fills postmodern Thompson Center with installations

November 7, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

A wooden pavilion shaped by dehydration and banners made from found urban objects are on show at Chicago’s James R Thompson Center for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The Floating Museum, an art collective and curator for the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 5), collaborated with stakeholders of the iconic, Helmut Jahn-designed structure to array a

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Gensler and Sterling Bay design Chicago laboratory to resemble a hotel

October 15, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

Light-filled spaces, neutral-toned furniture and a sculptural spiral staircase bring a hospitality feeling to this life sciences building in Chicago, designed by architecture studio Gensler and developer Sterling Bay. The eight-storey 1229 W Concord Place building is located at the Lincoln Yards development, northwest of Downtown Chicago and beside the north branch of the Chicago

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