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As host and producer of 99% Invisible, Roman Mars has explored everything from the Purple Hotel – Lincolnwood, IL's most famous building – to poetically-named structures in Santiago, Chile. Here Mars brings his eye for design, his talent for storytelling, and his rich layers of music and sound effects to Unity Temple.

Learn about sculptor Martin Kastner’s serviceware concepts that helped put Alinea and Chef Grant Achatz at the pinnacle of contemporary cuisine.

It's worth celebrating when good design occurs in Chicago, as is the case with La Casa Student Housing and Resource Center, a college dorm that opened last fall in the Pilsen neighborhood.

Oak Woods Cemetery: Behind the heavy, gray barrier is one of the most striking urban spaces in Chicago -183 acres of gentle lawns, winding lanes and a quartet of lakes, all planned with order and beauty. 

The team led by designer James Corner is the winner in a competition to revamp Navy Pier’s public spaces or Pierscape.

On this week's Global Activism, Worldview talks to two women who lead the Chicago chapter of Architecture for Humanity.

Frank Lloyd Wright certainly left his mark on architecture. He also had something of a reputation for being inflexible on matters of design. But there’s at least one house where he let the client define the process.