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The living room's Inglenook inside the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Robie House.

The Robie House, a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, is again a full-fledged architectural symphony (and open for tours) after a meticulous restoration

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

It’s a masterpiece. The word, often overused, fits. Let’s use it. The artistry of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House is dazzling, from its sweeping horizontal planes to its delicate bands...

Essex on the Park, left, a new 56-story apartment tower along the 800 block of South Michigan Avenue is situated in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District across from Chicago's Grant Park.

Michigan Avenue has a new tower, but it doesn’t live up to the street’s high standards

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

The spectacular, cliff-like wall of skyscrapers across Michigan Avenue from Grant Park conjures many metaphors: It’s the face Chicago presents to the world, the front porch that overlooks the city’s...

Chicago artist Theaster Gates at the newly opened Stony Island Arts Bank in 2018.

Artist Theaster Gates headlines 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial’s new list of participating designers

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

Chicago artist Theaster Gates, who turned a decrepit neo-classical bank building into a cultural hub called the Stony Island Arts Bank, will be among the participants of the 2019 Chicago...

"Mexus," by Estudio Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, portrays the US-Mexico border as a setting of interdependence, not a border wall, in the exhibit "Dimensions of Citizenship" at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

7 highlights from Venice Architecture Biennale are now in the soaring Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

So you weren’t able to jet over to Italy for last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale, where two institutions from Chicago had the honor of organizing the exhibition in the U.S....

The Lincoln Yards site is seen from above at North Southport Avenue and West Cortland Street in Chicago in September 2018.

The fix is in for Lincoln Yards, but the next mayor can learn from this megadevelopment’s faults

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

The Chicken Little theory of why Chicago must approve the flawed Lincoln Yards megadevelopment — now, not later, or else the sky will fall — is winning the day. Chicago,...

A tubular steel chair by Marcel Breuer, a carpet for a children's bedroom by Anni Albers, and a wood dismountable book shelf by Hubert Hoffman are part of a traveling exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, at the Elmhurst Art Museum, Feb. 28, 2019.

The Bauhaus at 100: Deep dive into German design school that sought to remake world, from cradle to great buildings

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

The sleek smartphone you may be holding in your hand. The elegant tubular metal chair you’d love to buy but can’t afford. The glass-sheathed building you admire or despise. All...

Allianz Tower, in Milan, is seen in 2017 from nearby Generali Tower with its lower floors braced by four exterior steel buttresses. The building is one of Arata Isozaki's latest projects.

Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, designer of acclaimed structures bridging East and West, wins Pritzker Prize

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, who grew up in a city destroyed by Allied bombs and went on to build bridges between East and West, on Tuesday was named this year’s...

Architect Kevin Roche is pictured in the atrium of Station Place in Washington, D.C., in 2005.

Kevin Roche, Pritzker Prize-winning architect who designed Chicago’s Leo Burnett Building, dies at 96

March 3, 2019 at 5:43 p.m.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Kevin Roche, whose innovative and widely varying designs include Chicago’s Leo Burnett Building and low-slung structures for Lucent Technologies in the city’s western suburbs, died Friday in...

The Laramie State Bank building in the Austin neighborhood appears on Preservation Chicago's annual list of endangered buildings.

‘This year’s threats were so extensive’: Preservation Chicago lists 9 endangered buildings, up from the usual 7

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

The James R. Thompson Center, historic Jackson Park and a circular building at O’Hare International Airport are the marquee names on a Chicago preservation group’s annual list of endangered buildings,...

Workers build a glass squash court in Union Station's Great Hall in Chicago on Feb. 21, 2019 in preparation for the World Squash Championship.

Union Station’s Great Hall looks better than ever, so why are commuters fuming?

May 11, 2019 at 6:28 a.m.

It’s easy to understand why Metra commuters who endure the dismal conditions of Chicago’s Union Station are frustrated and furious. The station’s soaring Great Hall, which glows after a $22...

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