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Barozzi Veiga win two important U.S. cultural projects in Miami and Chicago

Following an international competition, the leading resource for Miami-based visual artists Oolite Arts selected the Barcelona-based firm of Barozzi Veiga to create a new home for the organization in the City of Miami.

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JGMA and CannonDesign together with Terry Guen unify an existing complex by creating a campus environment with engaging pathways and collaborative spaces throughout

Designed by JGMA and CannonDesign together with Terry Guen Design, the new Manufacturing, Technology and Engineering Center (MTEC) at Daley College is an addition to the Richard J. Daley campus.

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FitzGerald Associates designs a bold and glistening new elliptical, checkerboard tower impacting the Chicago skyline in the city’s Greek Town

Designed by FitzGerald Associates Architects, 727 West Madison (formerly known as One South Halsted) is a 45-story, 492-unit luxury rental tower with more than 10,000 square feet of retail space. At just under 500 feet, it is the tallest building in Chicago’s West Loop.

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After nearly five years of painstaking cleaning, polishing, documenting, repairing, retrofitting, Gensler transforms Chicago’s ‘largest post office in the world’ back to its 1920s Beaux-Arts grandeur

Chicago’s long-vacant and decaying, nearly century-old postal facility has been transformed and meticulously restored into vibrant new hub for business and commerce by Gensler and Wiss and Janney, Elstner architects together with preservation consultants McGuire Igleski & Associates.

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Solomon Cordwell Buenz to restore Hood & Howell’s historic ChicagoTribune Tower back to its cosmopolitan grandeur

The 20th-Century landmark Tribune Tower Competition changed forever the thinking about the modern skyscraper and brought Finland’s Eliel Saarinen to the United States. Historians still argue that Saarinen’s second-place design was the most “modern” and the tower that should have been built.

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Adrian Smith proposes a slender design for Chicago’s second tallest skyscraper

As part of the development for an adaptive-reuse and renovation of Chicago’s historic Tribune Tower, developers CIM Group and Golub & Company are planning a second phase that will include a new tower nearly three times the height of the 1925 structure.

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Equinox Hotel and Residences Roger Ferris

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Roger Ferris + Partners unveils the design for the new Equinox Hotel and Residences paying tribute to the historic Chicago bay window

Connecticut-based Roger Ferris + Partners and developer Related Midwest have unveiled a new tower in Chicago’s West Loop, intending to evoke the famous Chicago bay windows developed by the First Chicago School of Architecture at the end of the 19th-Century.

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OMA Koo Architecture UIC Performing Arts Center

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OMA and Koo Architecture to design new UIC Performing Arts Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago

OMA New York and KOO Architecture has been named the winner for a cutting-edge “Center for the Arts” on the University campus that will serve as a gateway and bridge between UIC and the world, and as a destination for innovative arts and cultural production.

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bKL Architecture designs four new elegant urban residential sky-towers for Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive and Lakeshore East Park

Designed by bKL Architecture, the four new towers—Tower I, Cascade Chicago, Parcel O Chicago, and Cirrus Condominiums—are strategically placed to optimize active open green space and to minimally impact the surrounding context.

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Pelli Clarke Pelli unveils the design for Salesforce Tower Chicago the final phase of the Wolf Point masterplan along the city’s river

Representing the final phase of the Wolf Point masterplan designed by bKL Architecture LLC., this Pelli Clarke Pelli 813-foot-tall skyscraper offers 1.2 million square feet of remarkable trophy office space that serves as the focal point of Chicago’s premier progressive mixed-use urban environment.

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Barozzi Veiga win two important U.S. cultural projects in Miami and Chicago

JGMA and CannonDesign together with Terry Guen unify an existing complex by creating a campus environment with engaging pathways and collaborative spaces throughout

FitzGerald Associates designs a bold and glistening new elliptical, checkerboard tower impacting the Chicago skyline in the city’s Greek Town

After nearly five years of painstaking cleaning, polishing, documenting, repairing, retrofitting, Gensler transforms Chicago’s ‘largest post office in the world’ back to its 1920s Beaux-Arts grandeur

Solomon Cordwell Buenz to restore Hood & Howell’s historic ChicagoTribune Tower back to its cosmopolitan grandeur

Adrian Smith proposes a slender design for Chicago’s second tallest skyscraper

Roger Ferris + Partners unveils the design for the new Equinox Hotel and Residences paying tribute to the historic Chicago bay window

OMA and Koo Architecture to design new UIC Performing Arts Center at the University of Illinois in Chicago

bKL Architecture designs four new elegant urban residential sky-towers for Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive and Lakeshore East Park

Pelli Clarke Pelli unveils the design for Salesforce Tower Chicago the final phase of the Wolf Point masterplan along the city’s river

Exploring a sequence of spaces oscillating between the intimate and the public, Adrian Iredale and Caroline Di Costa built a brick residence and explore new and exciting ways of living

Louis Vuitton launches a new tableware collection ranging from traditional porcelain to boldly coloured glassware

ANAA Architectes has completed the expansion of the Wavrin Sports Complex, a project that stands out for its determination to create a versatile space

Exploring a sequence of spaces oscillating between the intimate and the public, Adrian Iredale and Caroline Di Costa built a brick residence and explore new and exciting ways of living

Louis Vuitton launches a new tableware collection ranging from traditional porcelain to boldly coloured glassware

ANAA Architectes has completed the expansion of the Wavrin Sports Complex, a project that stands out for its determination to create a versatile space

UNITEDLAB Associates and Vtrilloarquitectos design a sustainable, commemorative cultural park to honor all 416 MV Sewol Ferry victims, most of them schoolchildren

Encapsulating the suburban American dream, Roger Ferris + Partners offers an unusual take on cottages and contemporary swimming pools via their Pink Pool House

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Exploring a sequence of spaces oscillating between the intimate and the public, Adrian Iredale and Caroline Di Costa built a brick residence and explore new and exciting ways of living

Louis Vuitton launches a new tableware collection ranging from traditional porcelain to boldly coloured glassware

ANAA Architectes has completed the expansion of the Wavrin Sports Complex, a project that stands out for its determination to create a versatile space

UNITEDLAB Associates and Vtrilloarquitectos design a sustainable, commemorative cultural park to honor all 416 MV Sewol Ferry victims, most of them schoolchildren

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