Aug. 3, 2025 Ι Architect’s Newspaper Veteran Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teacher Barbara Johnson was teaching at Oscar DePriest Elementary School in 2013 when nearby Robert Emmet Elementary School was closed, one of four schools shuttered in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, part of the largest mass closure of schools due to declining enrollment and… Continue reading Lamar Johnson Collaborative transforms a long-shuttered Chicago school into the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation, centered around a new crystalline triangle atrium
Month: September 2025
Struggling Downtowns Are Looking to Lure New Crowds
June 30, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab The 12-story building at 300 West Adams Street is typical of the terra-cotta-clad office towers that rose in downtown Chicago during the 1920s. Heavily ornamented with Gothic Revival details and brass decorative elements, it’s across the street from the city’s tallest skyscraper, the freshly renovated Willis (née Sears) Tower, and… Continue reading Struggling Downtowns Are Looking to Lure New Crowds