Follow this tag to curate your own personalized Activity Stream and email alerts.
Michael Maltzan Architecture, Studio Zewde, and Once–Future Office have been named as the team behind a major upcoming reinstallation of the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA) in Ohio. The work will enable a chronological journey through its newly reinterpreted collection brought forth by a... View full entry
The initial vertical development included in Cleveland’s massive $3.5 billion Cuyahoga Riverfront Master Plan has broken ground in northeast Ohio. Designed by Populous, the Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center will encompass some 210,000 square feet and support athletic... 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
Work on Snøhetta's Joslyn Art Museum expansion in Omaha, Nebraska, is wrapping up ahead of an anticipated September 10th opening. Since our last update, the new 42,000-square-foot Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion has finished construction. Founding partner Craig Dykers says it will “become a... View full entry
A unique Frank Lloyd Wright home in the historic Parkwyn Village community in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, is for sale after listing for $1.85 million. The two-story Robert D. and Winifred L. Winn House from the architect’s Usonian period was built in 1950 and features a similar... View full entry
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that Hip Hop Architect Michael Ford will design the city’s new Bronzeville Center for the Arts for 2028. The 50,000-square-foot, $54.9 million project is set to take shape at a 3.4-acre former state Department of Natural Resources office with design... View full entry
Marlon Blackwell Architects has shared an update to their planned air traffic control tower project in Columbus, Indiana, following its initial announcement in December 2023. Renderings of the design revealed this week detail the firm’s pledge to create “more than a piece of infrastructure”... View full entry
Olson Kundig has expanded into the Midwest market with a new Chicago location that bridges its already bi-coastal New York and Seattle operations after 57 years in the industry. The firm will now work out of a new space in the city's Fulton Market there and says their move will precipitate a new... View full entry
Our latest weekly curated jobs roundup from the Archinect Job board highlights nine new career opportunities from architecture schools in the Midwest seeking fellows, assistant professors, academic leaders, and facilities staff. To look up specific job titles from the architectural... View full entry
It's fascinating to document how architectural and cultural trends are deployed across the country, but we've seen that widespread disinvestment — as well as patterns of renovation and repurposing — add to an already palpable sense of impermanence. — NPR
Chicagoans Zach Huelsing and Jon Lehman’s Rural Indexing Project was first launched during the Obama administration and has grown to an archive of more than 1,200 locations spread across 25 different states. Huelsing and Lehman both studied architecture and urban planning respectively, and their... View full entry
If you're currently looking for architectural job opportunities in the Upper Midwest, take a look at this week's curated highlight from Archinect Jobs. We have selected a number of current openings for architects, designers, and academic positions in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois... View full entry
This article was written by Genaro Armas UWM’s School of Architecture is marking its 50th anniversary in a yearlong celebration that concludes with a gala weekend in April. To commemorate five decades of education, research and community engagement, architecture faculty members... View full entry
Technology that would connect the cities of Cleveland and Chicago via a 30-minute commute inched closer to reality this month as a national transportation and housing appropriations bill passed one federal hurdle.
Five million dollars in initial funding for the Great Lakes Hyperloop System, an experimental high-speed transportation project, was included in legislation voted on by the U.S. House of Representatives in late June.
— Crain's Cleveland Business
Kim Palmer reports for Crain's Cleveland: "The passage of the 2020 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriation bill by the House provides the funds for the U.S. Department of Transportation to create a regulatory framework for development of a hyperloop system." Prototype of the... View full entry
There's no way to sugar coat it, the Polar Vortex of 2019 has aggressively hit various parts of the world. As people have braced themselves for the cold and frigid temperatures, how does the harsh cold remind us of building more resilient structures? Chicago and many other areas in the U.S. have... View full entry
Construction cranes filled the skyline, but much of the best work in Chicago and the Midwest in 2018 was tucked away in settings far from the high-rise commercial maelstrom. — Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune architecture critic, Blair Kamin, takes a look back and lists 2018's most notable architecture moments in the Windy City and the greater Midwest region, including the transformation of Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch landmark in St. Louis, the anticipated new home of the Chicago... View full entry
