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The residential hotel defined “Hobohemia.” Then it vanished.

Obama smiles all day on a four-story video installation called Power of Words, which is about the power of images, not words.

KPF’s PoMo corporate office towers from Wacker to wackest

No other presidential library has ever prioritized community engagement in its very design.

Chicago’s megadevelopment moment revisited

On the West Side of Chicago, Fred Hampton’s assassination was litigated through architectural media.

History beckons from Michael Reese Hospital’s sole remaining building.

Painting the town with Roger Brown

How spin, spectacle, and a strong-arm mayor remade the skyline

Becoming oneself on Chicago’s Far North Side

In Central Park’s Conservatory Garden, a supercilious formality reigns.

Crossing freely in Michael Sorkin’s New York

At the New Museum, OMA serves up reheated retrospection.

A positivist pool, a billion oysters, and the eternal sunshine of the short 2010s

Two new museums, and the elephant in the room