Chicago architect has battles ahead on World War I Memorial
The day after he won the design competition for a national World War I Memorial in Washington, 25-year-old Chicago architect Joe Weishaar confided that he'd prepared his plan for the...
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John Thorpe, led efforts to restore Frank Lloyd Wright Home, dies at 71
Oak Park architect John Thorpe led the award-winning effort that restored Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio and made it an international attraction. Thorpe, 71, died Monday of congestive heart...
Illinois tops in energy-conserving buildings for third time
More than 20 years after Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls completed their first three-peat, the state of Illinois has won its own, admittedly less glamorous, version: For the third...
Exhibit remembers Frank Lloyd Wright as ‘Most Distinguished Outcast’
If you're an architecture wonk (or even if you're not), I suggest that you take advantage of the fact that admission to the Art Institute of Chicago is free for...
Cities defined by more than tall buildings
It was a big story in 1996 when Malaysia's Petronas Twin Towers nudged their spires some 30 feet higher than the roof of Sears Tower and knocked Sears off its...
Husbands of Streep and Kennedy advising on Obama Center architect
A design advisory committee that includes the husbands of actress Meryl Streep and U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy is helping to advise President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle...
Alejandro Aravena’s Pritzker Prize win sends signal to architecture world
It's dangerous to read too much into a single year of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's top honor. But as journalists often joke: two facts and a deadline make...
Alejandro Aravena on winning Pritzker Architecture Prize: ‘Now we can take risks’
In an interview, Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena, winner of the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize and director of the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, discussed topics including Chile's influence on his design,...
Chicago’s Loop Link not exactly rapid, but a step in right direction
The driving idea behind Loop Link, the Emanuel administration's attempt to speed CTA buses through traffic-clogged downtown streets, is to make bus service more like rail service — in a...
Chicago architecture biennial attendance figures released
Chicago's first architecture biennial drew more than a half-million visitors, city officials said Wednesday. Titled "The State of the Art of Architecture" and open from Oct. 1 to Jan. 3,...