Blair Kamin

Illinois, your house has been put back in order. Not your political house, already in the midst of an ugly gubernatorial campaign. We're talking about the Executive Mansion, the “People’s...

You know something’s wrong when an architect looks at his building and bluntly tells you: “We did not design that box.” The architect, Chicago’s John Ronan, has won acclaim for...

The Chicago Architecture Foundation will open its new architecture center, including an exhibition that features large-scale models of skyscrapers from Chicago and around the world, on Aug. 31, the organization...

Call it a case of addition by subtraction. Or, as the architect himself might have said, less is more. The architect, the late Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was a...

Deadlines focus the eye as well as the mind. As baiduhai journalists prepare to leave Tribune Tower on Friday, I find my eyes roaming over the tower’s flamboyant neo-Gothic...