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Interior of an all-black tile room, designed by Anders Rohwald
Dark Blaze

Anders Ruhwald’s blacked-out Detroit show intertwines past, present, and future

Rendering of a soccer stadium at night, clad in vertical fins
Fincinnati

FC Cincinnati’s stadium redesign will be wrapped in 513 glowing fins

A wood hut, assembled for HUTOPIA, on a stone terrace
The Life of the Mind

HUTOPIA showcases the architecture of solitude

Photo of an African American woman, Yesomi Umolu, curator of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
See You Soon

Here’s what we know about the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial so far

Akoaki's heavily gilded and ornamented facade
Survive and Thrive

Akoaki is blending design disciplines in Detroit

Headshot of a man, Stanley Tigerman, sitting at a desk
In Memoriam

Robert E. Somol pens an open letter to the departed Stanley Tigerman

Rendering of a concourse with nature and timber ceiling
Runner Up

SOM will join O’Hare expansion with two new $1.4 billion concourses

An upward shot of an interlocking, biomorphic fiber structure presented at Exhibit Columbus
Columbus Composites

Exhibit Columbus’s inaugural fellow program will go high-tech

Photo of a squat building with ribbed canopies overhead—the new Searle Visitor Center
Zoo-tiful

Ross Barney Architects debuts Lincoln Park Zoo’s new visitor center

Looking up through the multicolored glass of the Thompson Center atrium
Love It or List It

Chicago’s Thompson Center is up for sale

The Farnsworth House projected in black-and-white stripes at night
Laser Mies at the Planetarium

The Farnsworth House will get an x-ray makeover for the Chicago Architecture Biennial

Rendering of abstracted pink people below a lit-up cluster of canopies, a winner of the Detroit City of Design Competition
City of Design

First-ever Detroit City of Design Competition brings kinetic energy generators and a nap room

The Chicago skyline on the shore, with several tall towers
Chicago Chic

Chicago moves to modernize as city overhauls building codes

Photo of an artwork by Virgil Abloh made of black steel structure and graffiti on it
Cool (Irony)

Thomas Kelley reviews Virgil Abloh’s mid-career retrospective

Rendering of a visitor center with a flat roof and brick walls
The Wright Stuff

John Ronan to design Frank Lloyd Wright Trust’s new visitor center

Rendering of a train station with the grim reaper superimposed on top, a hyperloop station
Sad Trombone

Is Elon Musk’s O’Hare Express System dead?

Photo of the exterior of the African Bead Museum
Stringing It Together

Lorcan O’Herlihy renovates Detroit’s African Bead Museum

Rendering of a park from inside a squat tower on the Obama Presidential Center campus
Lightfoot, Lighttouch

Federal judge rejects Obama Presidential Center lawsuit as opponents vow to fight on

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