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Architecture biennial names Yesomi Umolu as next curator

May 11, 2019 at 4:38 a.m.

A University of Chicago contemporary art curator whose work has explored the politics of the built environment will be the artistic director of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Mayor Rahm...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Martin Nesbitt, left, chairman of the Obama Foundation, announce on May 12, 2015, that Chicago will be the home of Obama's presidential library and museum.

The dilemma of development: Will Obama center hurt those it’s supposed to help?

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

A commander in chief turned salesman in chief, Barack Obama painted a rosy picture Tuesday of his planned presidential center’s urban impact. He described a transformed neighborhood, with visitors checking...

Community residents hold hands during a prayer vigil outside McCormick Place before the start of the public meeting on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Feb. 27, 2018.

Obama makes pitch for his center in Jackson Park: ‘Too much development’ has not been the problem for South Side

May 31, 2019 at 4:07 p.m.

Former President Barack Obama came to Chicago on Tuesday to again make the case for building his presidential center in Jackson Park, telling hundreds of people gathered at McCormick Place...

The Uptown La Grange is a new apartment complex and is near the heavily trafficked intersection of Odgen Avenue and La Grange Road.

1 suburban transit-oriented development sparkles, another’s just dull — here’s why

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

My column last Sunday about a graceless new apartment building in downtown Wilmette — a poor example of transit-oriented development, or TOD, which puts high-density housing near train stations —...

Obama center’s roadwork costs will total $175 million, city says

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Proposed roadwork and underpass construction for the planned Obama Presidential Center will cost about $175 million, Chicago officials said Friday. It’s the first time the city has given an estimate...

Aon Center's current owner and the firm hired to sell the building have planted seeds in the minds of potential buyers that the property might be able to accommodate an observation deck.

Aon Center owners float plan for sky-high exterior elevator to new observation deck

May 23, 2019 at 12:32 a.m.

The owners of the Aon Center are floating a plan to attach a glass-sheathed elevator tower to the skyscraper’s exterior to ferry visitors to and from a new observation deck,...

The Residences of Wilmette is a new five-story apartment building on Green Bay Road in Wilmette.

Suburban transit-oriented development a fine idea, but Wilmette project fails to live up to suburb’s high standard

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

For good reason, the concept of transit-oriented development is gaining in popularity among many suburbs. But they should be careful what they wish for. A case in point: an ungainly...

The top of the John Hancock Center rises above the fog April 9, 2013.

‘As far as I’m concerned, it’s still the Hancock’

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

What’s in a name? Specifically, a skyscraper’s name. I’m asking, of course, because the John Hancock Center is no longer the John Hancock Center, at least officially. After the Tribune’s...

Wilbert Hasbrouck, shown in 2009 at the famed Prairie Avenue Bookshop, 418 S. Wabash Ave.

Wilbert Hasbrouck, preservation architect and co-owner of Prairie Avenue Bookshop, dies at 86

May 11, 2019 at 4:36 a.m.

Wilbert R. Hasbrouck, a pioneering Chicago preservation architect who breathed new life into buildings designed by some of the city’s renowned architects and co-owned a beloved architectural bookstore, died Saturday...

Crowds gather near the arches outside the Yamasaki's U.S. Science Pavilion at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair.

New book offers fresh look at work of scorned World Trade Center architect

May 11, 2019 at 6:23 a.m.

Mention the name Minoru Yamasaki to architects of a certain age, and two violently destructive images invariably will come to mind: The 2001 terrorist attack that felled the twin towers...

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