Sharon Stangenes

Before Chicago was buzzing over the Fordham Co.'s proposed 115-story hotel and condo tower in the shape of a "twisted candle," there was the controversy over the "shadow" building. Named...

The House Hunter has a better half who seldom sees the homes I visit. But I invited him along to Shorewood Glen by Del Webb, planned for 765 houses on...

Talk about a buddy system. When Eamon Malone and John Moloney met after coming to the United States from Ireland more than 30 years ago, they became fast friends. The...

Wilted from the heat and humidity, I arrived at the front of Courtyard on the Park on South King Drive to find a development ablaze with flowers in a green...

The death of the living room has been trumpeted for several years in new-home circles. Don't believe it. The labels on the house blueprints may change, but the impulse for...

Loft housing in Chicago has been eclipsed in recent years by the new construction boom. But University Commons just south of the University of Illinois at Chicago is a big...

After renting in Chicago for several years, Stacy Lee Rodenkirch decided it was time to buy. "I wanted to get a place of my own," says Rodenkirch, 30, who is...

`Green" building is a hot topic. Currently popular with architects and a growing contingent of officials concerned with cost savings on building maintenance to quality of life issues, green building...

Architectural renderings can be deceiving. They show trees where there are none--not even space for one. The drawings usually omit unsightly features such as an ugly building or parking lot...

Tom Bart's smile was as broad as the two-story great room, dining area and kitchen in the house his company has built for the 2005 Cavalcade of Homes. "My son...