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The days appear numbered for Lincolnwood's aptly-named Purple Hotel.Village attorneys won the right to demolish the shuttered hotel at 4500 W. Touhy if its owner doesn't fix an array of building code violations by August.

I seldom go to shopping malls. I live six blocks from Evergreen Plaza, but I haven't shopped there since buying diamond pattern sweaters and baggy slacks from Chess King in 1984.

The mighty twin towers of New York's World Trade Center towers fell to earth on September 11, 2001 and changed the way Americans looked at buildings and the built environment.

City landmarks officials will seek landmark status this week for the long-vacant Chicago Motor Club building, a slender Art Deco tower scheduled to be sold at a bankruptcy auction next month.The city will ask the Commission on Chicago Landmarks on Thursday to grant preliminary landmark status to the

It was not so long ago that three young explorers embarked on a clandestine adventure to the summit of one of Chicago’s newest landmarks.In December of 2009 Aqua was still under construction.

Demolition has begun on the former Michael Reese Hospital main building.Built in 1907, the building at 29th and Ellis was once the spine of a sprawling 37-acre medical campus where pioneering doctors discovered the links between coronary heart disease and cholesterol; unlocked the mysteries of insul

This lecture focuses on Ensamble Studio works. This studio designs architecture that uses technology with new insight and develops site-specific proposals for global, synthetic systems.