Awesome - proving once again an inefficient transit system, a turbine and a green roof on city hall will win every time.

Well, that's better than most cities.

I smell blatant anti-newyorkism.

obviously our lack of a transit system is what keeps us from being no. 1-3. that and our archi-scene is rather laaaaaaaame

DC, but no Bmore? B-S!

why is a LEED certified building qualify as top design? are these buildings all beautiful? i imagine many of them are banal and uninspiring as many non leed certified buildings. and whats so "creative" about publishing? and just because you work in performing arts doesn't mean you have squat to do with designing anything. hell you could work in the perfroming arts as an usher or a ticket taker...but chicago rocks!!!!whoohoo.

architectural design without having to negotiate more factors than aesthetics is called sculpture. A "beautiful" building that works terribly is bad design. But this is based on my seemingly avant-garde opinion that architecture is not art.

LEED is a quantifiable system of evaluating a building's negotiation of its environmental factors. They used LEED and National Registry to quantify practical and aesthetic design. I would have prefered that they also use architectural design award winners as well.

They assume that the number of people employed in performing arts has a direct relation to the size of that industry in the city. That then would attract other people in creative fields.

In the end, with all things considered, I have no idea how Chicago beats New York.

Well NYC is really just the Lost island for queers - so that really doesnt make it more creative - just more "fabulous"

if kant couldnt quantify aesthetics nobody can.