London calling for Chicago architecture critic
I'm just back from a family vacation in London and feeling very disoriented. It's not the jet lag. It's Chicago. The city looks so different — so new, so machinelike,...
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Once ‘Downton’ is done, what will happen to the star of the show: Highclere?
From a golden-hued, Victorian Gothic exterior studded with pinnacles to stately rooms decorated with precious antiques, the real-life Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, is as quintessentially English as the Houses of...
Chicago architecture preview 2016: Key decisions due on Obama Library, Lucas Museum
It will be hard to top 2015, a year that saw the successful first run of the Chicago Architectural Biennial and exemplary new public spaces like the Chicago Riverwalk. But...
Architecture Biennial’s visions spark debate, lay foundation for future
As the protesters decrying the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald marched past the Chicago Cultural Center one day earlier this month, it was impossible not to notice something that wasn't...
Chicagoans of the Year in Architecture: Michelle Boone and Sarah Herda make a powerful pair
The partnership that launched a new Chicago institution, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, was birthed at an old Chicago institution, Taste of Chicago. In 2012, at a Chef Du Jour event...
Obama center chooses architects strong on modernism, innovative thinking
It's tempting to characterize the list of seven finalists for the Obama Presidential Center as the greatest rout of Chicago architects by Easterners since the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893....
Obama Foundation names finalists to design presidential library
Seven stellar architectural firms — four based in New York, two in Europe and one in Chicago — were named finalists Monday for one of Chicago's, and the nation's, most...
Meet the finalists who could design the Obama Presidential Center
The Barack Obama Foundation on Monday named seven architectural firms that will compete for one of Chicago's and the nation's most sought-after commissions -- the design of the Barack Obama...
Architect Dirk Lohan’s firm closing; he and staff to join Wight & Co.
Dirk Lohan, for decades a major figure in Chicago architecture, will close his firm and take a leadership role at Wight & Co., a major design and construction firm with...
Zaha Hadid stirs things up at Chicago Architectural Biennial
Leave it to Zaha Hadid to stir Chicago's architectural pot. In a public program Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Iraqi-born, London-based Hadid — the first woman...