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SOM transforms ageing brick buildings into Chicago’s West Loop Branch library

January 29, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has converted buildings in a former industrial district into a public library in Chicago, where original brick walls and bow trusses are on full display. The West Loop Branch library is named after its location in the city’s West Loop neighbourhood – a former industrial area that is now brimming

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Foster, Calatrava and SOM on shortlist for new Chicago O’Hare airport terminal

January 18, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

Five teams of architects are in the running to redesign Chicago’s O’Hare international airport, with Foster + Partners and Santiago Calatrava among the list of firms participating in the competition. Chicago’s Department of Aviation has released images of the five designs for a proposed “global terminal” at the city’s largest airport – a $8.5 billion (£6.59 billion) project

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White partitions divide Chicago law office by Vladimir Radutny

January 15, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0

SY Offices by Vladimir Radutny Architects

Chicago firm Vladimir Radutny Architects has outfitted a lawyers’ office in the city, with minimal volumes arranged around existing pillars for high contrast. The project involved the renovation of a 4,000-square-foot (372-square-metre) manufacturing loft in Chicago, to create workspaces for Sukhman Yagoda Law. As a nod to the site’s industrial past, local firm Vladimir Radutny Architects left exposed

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John Ronan wraps IIT’s Kaplan Institute in ETFE and glass

December 4, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio John Ronan Architects has completed an academic building at the Illinois Institute of Technology that is meant to have a “light, cloud-like appearance”. The building, officially known as the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship, is situated in the heart of the IIT campus, which was master-planned by Mies van

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Tadao Ando designs Wrightwood 659 exhibition space in Chicago

November 5, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Japanese architect Tadao Ando has turned an old brick building in Chicago into an architecture-focused exhibition centre. Located within a four-storey building, completed in 1929 in the city’s Lincoln Park neighbourhood, Wrightwood 659 is dedicated to exhibitions of architecture and socially engaged art. The former apartment building provides a shell for the 35,565-square-foot (3,304-square-metre) centre,

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SOM architect’s “sister skyscrapers” for doomed Chicago Spire site halted

October 31, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

The controversy surrounding the site of Santiago Calatrava’s ill-fated Chicago Spire continues, as the city stalls the pair of skyscrapers that SOM’s David Childs has proposed for the vacant waterfront plot. Child’s 400 Lake Shore Drive, designed for developer Related Midwest, was rejected by Chicago’s vice mayor Brendan Reilly on Monday 22 October 2018 – 10 years after

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Collective Office founder converts Chicago factory into his apartment and studio

September 2, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Chicago architect Jeff Klymson has designed a home for himself inside an old industrial building in the city, while reserving the ground floor for the studio of his firm Collective Office. The office-cum-residence is located in Chicago’s South Loop neighbourhood, inside a former factory built in 1889. The project involved the adaptive re-use of the

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Chicago McDonald’s by Ross Barney Architects draws comparisons to Apple stores

August 14, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Fast-food chain McDonald’s has replaced its iconic restaurant in Chicago with a building by Ross Barney Architects that is “unlike any in the company’s portfolio”. The new outpost opened on 9 August 2018 in the city’s River North district, on the site of the Rock N Roll McDonald’s that served as a flagship for the

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Chicago McDonald’s by Ross Barney Architects draws comparisons to Apple stores

August 14, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

Fast-food chain McDonald’s has replaced its iconic restaurant in Chicago with a building by Ross Barney Architects that is “unlike any in the company’s portfolio”. The new outpost opened on 9 August 2018 in the city’s River North district, on the site of the Rock N Roll McDonald’s that served as a flagship for the

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COS looks to Mies and Mondrian for first Chicago store

July 25, 2018 Dan Howarth 0

The works of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and artist Piet Mondrian influenced the geometric and pared-back design of this shop for fashion brand COS. The first COS store in Chicago occupies a new four-storey building on East Oak Street, designed by the company’s in-house team of architects. Sandwiched between two existing structures, the

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