Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Curators and Theme

Architectural Record Ι Sept. 22, 2016  After the runaway success of last year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB), organizers announced plans for the 2017 edition. At a press briefing yesterday at the Chicago Cultural Center, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CAB officials named Los Angeles-based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Johnston Marklee artistic directors and selected Todd Palmer, associate director… Continue reading Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces 2017 Curators and Theme

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Sparkling New Dorm by Jeanne Gang Opens at the University of Chicago

Architectural Record Ι Sept. 13, 2016  To make way for the University of Chicago Campus North Residential Commons, the school demolished Harry Weese’s 1960 Pierce Tower, who’s stacked bays and neo-mansard crown showcased some of the University of Chicago’s least confident mid-century architecture on the famously Collegiate Gothic campus. Something of an inscrutable fortress, it thought little… Continue reading Sparkling New Dorm by Jeanne Gang Opens at the University of Chicago

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Design-build for high schoolers

Sept. 2, 2016 Ι Doggerel On a hot, sunny August morning on Chicago’s West Side, Matt Snoap, an architect with the firm bKL, is putting more than a dozen high school and early college students in place for a groundbreaking photo op on one of the city’s many abandoned freight rail lines. But unlike a traditional groundbreaking… Continue reading Design-build for high schoolers

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A Lot You Got to Holler EP 8: Landscape Redemption with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group

EP 8: Landscape Redemption with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group  The A Lot You Got to Holler Cavalcade of Firsts continues, when co-hosts Zach Mortice and Ben Schulman sit down with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group–the show’s first ever landscape architect guest! On the agenda: shared streets in Uptown, Chicago’s many, many basket-case ruins… Continue reading A Lot You Got to Holler EP 8: Landscape Redemption with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group

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