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The City of Chicago has granted approvals to the new $7 billion RIOS and Field Operations-led redevelopment of spaces surrounding the United Center. The 1901 Project, which covers 55 acres will be conducted in two phases through 2040, adds a new 6,000-seat music hall, 233-key boutique hotel... View full entry
Chicago-based practice Kwong Von Glinow has offered an insight into its new residential scheme serving a “retreat in a forested clearing.” The scheme’s title, House, Some of This, Some of That, is both the formal name for the project as well as a reflection of the scheme’s architectural... View full entry
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has released images of its proposed 1325 West Fulton Street, a residential development in Chicago’s Fulton Market district. Developed for Sulo Development, the 859,000-square-foot project is the first of three planned towers for the full-block site in the West Loop... View full entry
The Art Institute of Chicago has shared new photos for its redesigned Architecture and Design galleries after work was completed by the Chicago-based practice Norman Kelley. The project installed a modular system of walls and columns to support a more flexible display of thematic... View full entry
Video from this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Riken Yamamoto’s May lecture and award presentation ceremony in Chicago has been shared with Archinect to celebrate the 46th edition of architecture’s most important individual honor. The documentary-style film provides a... View full entry
The renovation of Helmut Jahn’s fought-over Thompson Center building in Chicago for Google has provided an updated pair of renderings for the $280 million project. The update follows last December’s release of the initial images for the reimagining. Google is pledging to deliver a... View full entry
Critics are coming out in favor of a distinctive new residential apartment tower from Jahn after the building opened at the south end of Michigan Avenue in Chicago in June. The 1000M project is a new high-rise accommodation meant to anchor the historic thoroughfare with 73 total stories and... View full entry
The scope of next year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB 6) will be responsive to changes within architecture and other salient issues united under the theme Shift: Architecture in Times of Radical Change and curated by UIC School of Architecture director Florencia Rodriguez. The... View full entry
The [Chicago] Tribune, which had been reducing staff and budgets for years before Alden Global Capital accelerated the process with its May 2021 purchase of Tribune Publishing, did not replace Kamin, just as it did not replace several other culture writers who left the paper. So the retired critic took matters into his own hands. — Northwestern University
We covered the debut of the Windy City’s newest critic Edward Keegan back in August along with the restart of work on 400 Lake Shore Drive. His position is being funded by Blair Kamin after Kamin stepped aside in January 2021. He explains the situation to Northwestern's vaunted... View full entry
Building permits for Moody Nolan’s Programs & Athletics Center contribution to the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago have been granted by local planning officials, reports Urbanize Chicago. The project is to be realized at the south end of the 19-acre campus in Jackson Park by the end of... View full entry
One of the most significant skyscraper designs in SOM’s portfolio, the John Hancock Center (now known as 875 N. Michigan Avenue) in Chicago, will be receiving an upgrade to its upper-level Signature Room, according to 360 Chicago, the group that bought the former restaurant space on the 95th and... View full entry
Frank Lloyd Wright’s first independent commission in River Forest, Illinois has hit the local real estate market for just under $2 million. The historic 1894 Winslow House was the young architect’s first after leaving Adler & Sullivan’s Chicago office, reports Blair Kamin. Christie’s... View full entry
The official timeline of the planned $8.5 billion Chicago O’Hare Aiport expansion has been moved to 2034, according to Crain’s. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is working with Ross Barney Architects, Arup, and Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects (JGMA) to complete its first 19-gate Satellite... View full entry
Studio Gang’s restoration of the popular Pavilion structure at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago is now complete. The photogenic gathering space located along the Zoo’s Nature Boardwalk was completed in 2010 and recently received a makeover replete with new fiberglass dome components and a... View full entry
Chicago’s most infamous vacant site of the 21st century is finally getting a tower. But will we be getting the architect’s best vision — or just half of a good design? A look at some recent history of large projects in the city offers some guidance, and reason for concern.
I have no reason to doubt Related’s stated intention to build both towers, but if history is a guide, it’s more likely than not that the single tower will never see its sibling.
— Chicago Tribune
The Windy City's newest architecture critic, Edward Keegan, explains 400 Lake Shore Drive (designed by SOM's Chicago office with David Childs) against five other similar projects that never saw the original vision of their architects fully realized. He says a potential void might become a... View full entry
