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front view of a chalet-style cabin with an a-frame roof
Keeping Things Cozy

An aging 1970s A-frame in rural northeastern Minnesota is revived with Kebony siding

a historic college building
When the Shoe Fits

The only HBCU in Michigan will be revived with design focus at Detroit’s College of Creative Studies

overhead rendering of a brick building with a rooftop garden for blue tin
Tin Drop

Studio Gang and immigrant fashion co-op Blue Tin Production will transform an old Chicago post office into a community hub

Oudolf Garden Detroit, a wild landscape with a dome atop
Fan Mail

Oudolf Garden Detroit opens at Belle Isle Park five years after the Dutch plantsman first arrived

aerial view of a building enveloped by trees with a lake in the distance, the MAC Lodge at the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Minnesota
Petal to the Medal

HGA’s overhaul at Minnesota’s Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center is the first renovated Living Building

rendering of church exterior at dusk for library street collective
Mass Appeal

Library Street Collective unveils a Detroit campus anchored by a church-turned-art space and Tony Hawk-designed skate park

A woman walking past a blue pavilion at the The Available City
Off Center

The 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial ditches its downtown digs to invest in historically underserved communities

The restored Pullman Company Town , now a park
Green Labor

The restoration of Chicago’s former Pullman Company Town commemorates a pivotal site of progressive American labor

Inside the Swiss Consulate, green marble and paint is used
Extended Family

The Chicago offices of the Swiss Consulate pull disparate influences into a cohesive, congenial whole

The edith farnsworth house, two white slabs sandwiching a glass room
What's In A Name?

The Farnsworth House is renamed to honor Edith Farnsworth

A display at volume gallery of a white brick installation
In Convo: Claire Warner

Volume Gallery in Chicago wants nothing more than to cultivate new American design talent

exterior of a frank lloyd wright house at night
Lakefront Delight

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Harper House in Michigan hits the market for just under $2 million

rendering of a large public lawn
Bringing Down Barriers

Cleveland’s Dunham Tavern Museum plots a new beginning with community green space

photograph depicting a museum gallery with partition walls painted yellow, green, red, and blue
Comic Treatment

At MCA Chicago’s latest blockbuster, there’s more to comics than just the funnies

exterior of a modernist structure along a creek designed by harry weese
Cup of Harry

A Harry Weese-designed bank in Columbus, Indiana, begins second life as coffee shop

A swooping angular roofline with a SOS Children’s Villages Illinois sign
Sending Out An SOS

JGMA’s SOS Children’s Villages center is a cross-laminated timber first for Chicago

students congregate under a timber pavilion, SPLAM, with a lattice topper prototypical in wood framing
Grand SPLAM

SOM debuts robotically fabricated timber pavilion at the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial

conceptual rendering of a cold war memorial
Hot Competition

Pritzker Military Museum & Library reveals shortlisted designs for its Cold War Veterans Memorial

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