Suburban bank that pays homage to Mies van der Rohe

Sep. 18, 2012
The iconic and beautifully-maintained BMO Harris bank in Villa Park was inspired by an unbuilt work by Mies van der Rohe.

Architects step in to save Prentice

Jul. 26, 2012
More than 60 architects, educators and historic preservationists are betting their famous names might help prevent demolition of the old Prentice Women’s Hospital.

The path not taken led to Frank Lloyd Wright

Jun. 16, 2012
In 1947 Y.C. Wong came to the U.S. from China, intending to study with Frank Lloyd Wright. But Wong got sidetracked by another famous architect and never made it to Spring Green, Wis. Instead, he stayed in Chicago, where he left the city his own architectural legacy.

McCormick Place architect dies at 83

Dec. 14, 2011
Architect Gene Summers, whose flat-roofed lakeside McCormick Place building has been one of the city's most powerful expressions of modernism--and a target for open space advocates and a former mayor--since its completion in 1971, has died.