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Articles

Will a historic West Side landmark ever be resurrected?

KPF’s PoMo corporate office towers from Wacker to wackest

Painting the town with Roger Brown

The Sheboygan plumbingware giant—still churning out crappers—aims to turn the lavatory into a lifestyle.

Chicago lays itself.

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

Chicago’s megadevelopment moment revisited

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

Anna Kornbluh and Morley Musick debate the Obama Presidential Center.

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

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

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

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

Becoming oneself on Chicago’s Far North Side

Lake Shore Drive is a sixteen-mile monument to civic madness.

Reviews

The tall office building fluvially considered

Fine Homebuilding dreams small.