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Chicago airport expansion set to have “tree-like structural system”

May 31, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American studios SOM, Ross Barney Architects, Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects and Arup have unveiled designs for a “satellite concourse” at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Named Satellite One, the terminal will provide additional gates for airlines that operate out of Chicago and space for layover passengers. It will service international and national flights. Led by SOM,

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Pelli Clarke & Partners completes skyscraper “imbued with lightness” in Chicago

May 29, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the 57-storey Salesforce Tower along the Chicago River, marking the final stage of the city’s Wolf Point development. The 852-foot-tall (259 metres) office tower joins two residential towers and 2.3 acres of public park space across the 4-acre Wolf Point development, which sits directly at the intersection

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Manica Architecture designs glass-fronted stadium for Chicago Bears

April 29, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

American studio Manica Architecture and National Football League team Chicago Bears have unveiled the design of a football stadium along Lake Michigan in Chicago, drawing criticism from preservationists. Manica Architecture designed the multi-purpose recreational campus – featuring a stadium enclosed with a translucent roof – to bring a variety of concerts, community celebrations, and sporting

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Chicago to convert office buildings into affordable housing

March 7, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The city of Chicago has announced the resumption of plans to convert a collection of empty office buildings in the city’s downtown into mixed-used and residential towers. The initiative, called LaSalle Street Reimagined, would convert nearly 2.3 million square feet (213,676 square metres) of vacant office buildings into residences and retail in the centre of

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Construction commences on SOM skyscrapers at former Chicago Spire site

March 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade’s worth of revisions and delays. Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that

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The Row skyscraper by Morris Adjmi pays homage to Chicago’s heritage

January 10, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US firm Morris Adjmi Architects has designed a 43-storey residential skyscraper in Chicago with a “deeply expressive” facade that takes cues from the city’s industrial past and the work of architect Mies van der Rohe. The 480-foot (146-metre) building is located in Chicago’s Fulton Market District – a former meatpacking area that has undergone extensive

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Google and Jahn release images of Thompson Center redesign

December 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Tech company Google and architecture studio Jahn have released visualisations of the planned revamp of the James R Thompson Center, an iconic postmodern-style building in Chicago’s Downtown. The plans for the redesign retain the original rounded form and the 17-storey atrium inside. Its glass curtain wall will change, moving from the slightly darkened patterned glass

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Ross Barney Architects creates pavilion exploring “layers” of early Chicago

November 17, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion dedicated to Haitian entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler of Chicago, for the city’s architecture biennial. Parallel Histories is a pavilion made up of small, temporary structures representing the footprint of DuSable’s homestead, on a park that Ross Barney Architects is revamping where the Chicago

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Nine installations to see at the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial

November 13, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

The 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial has opened with installations focusing on monumentality, race and material innovations on show at sites throughout Chicago. This year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, its fifth edition, focused on themes of collaboration and community building through architecture, with a series of exhibits adhering to the exhibition’s theme: This Is a Rehearsal. It was

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Ruth De Jong draws upon Nope set design for Chicago Architecture Biennial

November 10, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Production designer Ruth De Jong has installed a house modelled on her set design for Jordan Peele’s film Nope at the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of a series of installations exploring horror and architecture. The installation is a life-size recreation of the facade and front porch of a ranch home featured prominently in the

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