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Protestors massed in front of a school-to-loft conversion
What We Talk About When We Talk About Architecture

Op-ed: Architecture critics have a duty to interrogate inequality in the built environment

More Than Mesh

The sculptural white mesh of Perkins & Will’s Gardner Neuroscience Institute stands out in a sea of brick

aerial view of an urban park with a granite tower at the obama presidential center
It’s Happening

Obama Presidential Center passes review, will break ground later this year on Chicago’s South Side

The chicago skyline, a city now devoid of an architecture critic
More Than Words

What Chicago loses when it loses an architecture critic

Interior of the The Silver Room, with plywood shelves along a white warehouse like backdrop
Backdrop Elegy

Future Firm imbues a Chicago store and community space with flexible furniture

a stack of protective face masks
An Additional Layer

Grace Farms and Herman Miller launch face masks to support eradicating slavery in the built environment

An aerial photo of chicago
So Long

Blair Kamin is leaving the Chicago Tribune after 33 years

The exterior of a steel and glass arena next to a brick building
Leveling Up

Chicago reveals Surge, a funhouse-like e-sports arena complete with outdoor IMAX screen

interior of a residential home designed by Kwong Von Glinow, with exposed plywood accents
Balloon Game

Chicago’s Kwong Von Glinow flips an upside-down house into shape

rendering of a museum expansion project at the rock & roll hall of fame
Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

PAU will lead a team to extend I.M. Pei’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

a portal in a brick wall
A Real Hole In The Wall

Detroit’s Library Street Collective is moving into a new Snarkitecture-designed gallery space

A Landmark Link For the Crossroads of America

schlaich bergermann partner and PAU to lead design of a signature bridge at the 16 Tech Innovation District in Indianapolis

an abandoned mall parking lot
From Auntie Anne’s to Ellipticals

In Columbus, Indiana, a dead mall is getting a new lease on life as a health-focused community hub

aerial view of planned soccer stadium
Beyond the Pitch

St. Louis CITY SC shares its updated plans for a downtown stadium district

A still from a waymo video showing skid marks
Not Quite Potemkin

Waymo will build a city in Ohio to test its self-driving cars

a split-volume education center in the Ozarks connected by a canopy
Mountain Living

BNIM’s Ozarks Education Center gives new meaning to “bringing the outdoors in”

a bison statue at north dakota state university
The One and Only

North Dakota State University expands architecture and landscape programs with a new school

aerial view of redevelopment around Michigan Central Station
Goodbye Ruin Porn

Ford reveals plans for Michigan Central, a 30-acre “mobility innovation district” in Detroit’s Corktown

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