Chicago

The governor of Illinois, whose family started the Pritzker Prize, is set to sell Helmut Jahn’s James R Thompson Center in Chicago, putting the fate of the postmodern building in “serious trouble”. Jay Robert Pritzker signed a bill on 5 April 2019 paving the way for the sale, and likely demolition, of the German-American architect’s massive 17-storey structure. Pritzker was

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The governor of Illinois, whose family started the Pritzker Prize, is set to sell Helmut Jahn’s James R Thompson Center in Chicago, putting the fate of the postmodern building in “serious trouble”. Jay Robert Pritzker signed a bill on 5 April 2019 paving the way for the sale, and likely demolition, of the German-American architect’s massive 17-storey structure. Pritzker was

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Chicago architect Helmut Jahn has sent a hand-written note to the Chicago Tribune condemning the selection of a team led by Jeanne Gang to design an extension to O’Hare airport, describing it as “premeditated” and “not justified”. Jahn deplored the decision taken by Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel in the note sent to the newspaper’s architecture critic

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A team led by Studio Gang founder Jeanne Gang has been named the winner of the bid for the concourse and terminal at Chicago O’Hare airport, beating competition from SOM, Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava. Gang’s Chicago competition team Studio ORD was revealed today as the lead architect for the $8.5-billion (£6.44-billion) expansion project for the Chicago O’Hare international airport

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Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has revealed plans to transform a former industrial site in Chicago into a “new urban destination”. Called Lincoln Yards, the development will transform an underused 50-acre (20.2-hectare) parcel along the North Branch of the Chicago River. The site is enveloped by some of the city’s most well-known neighbourhoods: Bucktown, Wicker Park

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The third Chicago Architecture Biennial will forego a single theme in order to push the architecture profession to “think more meaningfully” about a host of contemporary issues, according to artistic director Yesomi Umolu. Titled “…And Other Such Stories”, the biennial will be broadly structured around “four guiding curatorial frames” – established by Umolu and her team

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