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St. Louis’s Counterpublic triennial reveals further details of public art commission from David Adjaye

The $2 Billion Question

Chicago critic Blair Kamin’s Who is the City For? takes aim at aesthetic bungles while thornier issues go largely unaddressed

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Plastic Planet

SPACES surveys our deep entanglement with plastic as commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

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Incoming...

Eleanor Gorski named new chief executive of the Chicago Architecture Center

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Columbus Bound?

The 2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium unites community members, civic leaders, and designers to explore the power of public space

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Challenge Accepted

Illinois Institute of Technology among the first cohort of universities to receive DOE’s Zero Energy Design Designation

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Razing the Ruins

Demolition work begins on Albert Kahn’s Packard Plant, a hulking relic of Detroit’s automotive glory days

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Many Thanks!

Chicago’s first-ever sukkah design festival seeks to do social good in an under-resourced neighborhood

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Going Downtown

Exhibit Columbus announces PAU, PORT, Studio Zewde, and Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO as 2022–23 Miller Prize recipients

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Motor City Art Ensemble

Design Core Detroit showcases the city’s capacity for 21st century design innovation and community building

No Place Like Dome

OMA and Jacobs reveal design for the Discovery Partners Institute’s new riverfront home in Chicago

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Cleveland Rocks

Across northeastern Ohio, Front 2022 stages a triennial that explores how art can heal us

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Going Public

Public by Design, the 2022–2023 theme of Exhibit Columbus, explores the power and potential of community action

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Upward, with Form and Policy

IIT and CTBUH launch new tall-buildings degree programs

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Black and Tan

Future Firm designs a stylish eatery for Chicago’s South Side Bronzeville neighborhood

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Mountains Mies, Mountains

Chicago artist Assaf Evron dresses up Crown Hall with an installation inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s collages

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Front of the CAB

Floating Museum tapped as artistic team for This is a Rehearsal, the fifth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial

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Dome Denial

Task force rebuffs proposal to finance rehabilitation of Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Domes with $19 million in ARPA funding

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