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The preservation group Landmarks Illinois today unveiled a 16-page plan that includes three different potential reuse scenarios for the former Prentice Women's Hospital, the distinctive Bertrand Goldberg-designed building currently under threat of demolition.As an alternative to Northwestern Univers

The twenty-first century challenges our approach to the Earth's limited resources and energy. Building our future requires a more holistic response, a shared enlightened stewardship, and imaginative innovation.

Here's a very cool find from 1969: the story of Lake Point Tower, architects George Schipporeit and John Heinrich's sensuously curved residential tower at Ohio and Lake Shore Drive.The documentary, Lake Point Tower: The Story of Building a Building--ok, not the catchiest title, but still--t

Three of the most innovative and active architecture studios in Chicago, represented by designers in their early 30s, present their work and discuss the challenges and opportunities they face.

Aqua Tower, the tall beauty with the undulating balconies has become an instant architectural celebrity since its completion in 2009; the subject of accolades, the winner of honors--and now the inspiration for Aqua, a string quartet musical piece written by New York composer Harold Meltzer

I was in Detroit last weekend participating in Art X Detroit, a five-day festival of art, music, dance and discussion.Fortunately, I squeezed-in a Saturday morning photo stroll of the city's downtown, taking stock of the wealth of buildings that remain despite Detroit's well-recorded decades of deca

A 124-year-old Kenwood church designed by one of Chicago's first architects will likely take a step toward landmark status today, city officials said.The imposing Kenwood United Church of Christ, bell-towered Richardson Romanesque beauty at 4600 S.