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Inside of a chicago condo with built in arched display cases designed by new office
Passion Project

Small interventions in this Chicago condo punch above their weight

A recreation of several structures inside of an abandoned church
From Dancehalls to Detroit

Akeem Smith explores memory, Black diaspora, and Kingston’s dancehall scene in his Detroit exhibitions

black and white portrait of helmut jahn
A Legacy, Observed

The Chicago Architecture Center announces a special exhibition saluting Helmut Jahn

a historic chicago auditorium flanked by a gilded age mansion
A Preservation Legacy Continues

Chicago’s Richard H. Driehaus Museum expands into the neighboring John B. Murphy Memorial Auditorium

Anything But A Fossil

Cleveland Museum of Natural History breaks ground on $150 million expansion and reinstallation

Crystal bridges art museum, looking at a sloping roof
Back to Bentonville

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art announces its first architecture exhibition

House P, a large rectangular home with blue staircase
Not So Clear-Cut

Ply+ injects bold color and unique geometries into the design of a single-family home

exterior of a midcentury school building, site of the 2021 chicago architecture biennial
Gettin’ Close

Chicago Architecture Biennial reveals 2021 partner sites and organizations

rendering of a residential tower surrounded by elevated train tracks and historic buildings
In the Loop

Studio Gang and The Community Builders named winners of Chicago’s C40 Reinventing Cities competition

view of an elevated train station with a glass canopy with historic theater marquees in the foreground
An Elevated Design

SOM unveils a reimagined State/Lake “L” station in downtown Chicago

exterior of a spaceship-like postmodernist building, now under consideration for the 2021 Chicago Prize Competition
Ideas Wanted

The 2021 Chicago Prize Competition tasks designers with reimagining an imperiled Thompson Center

The On Olive complex of buildings under construction
For sale in St. Louis

This St. Louis residential development will feature homes from Höweler + Yoon, Tatiana Bilbao, and more

A rendering of Baker's Place in Madison
Dairyland Goes Big on Timber

Michael Green Architecture reveals a mass timber tower in Madison, Wisconsin

A planted sidewalk garden
On the Ground in Minneapolis (Again)

In Minneapolis, as George Floyd Square is cleared, so too is the historic landscape

Inside the Chicago Loop Synagogue looking at a big window
Goodbye Glass?

With commuter congregation waning, the Chicago Loop Synagogue faces an uncertain future

Looking at the jagged curtain wall of the One hundred tower, with vertical louvers between glass
Crowning Achievement

Studio Gang crowns St. Louis with a new crystalline residential tower

Helmut jahn as a young man
In Remembrance

Helmut Jahn was an architect consistently ahead of his time

Helmut jahn in a black and white photo amid towers
1940 - 2021

Helmut Jahn dead at 81 after fatal bicycle crash

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