Chicago

SOM converts century-old Chicago firehouse into Optimo hat factory

May 8, 2018 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has paired blackened steel with warm-toned wood at a new headquarters for hat maker Optimo, created inside a historic firehouse in Chicago. The offices and production facilities are situated within a 100-year-old decommissioned firehouse in the Beverly neighbourhood on Chicago’s South Side. Founded 25 years ago, Optimo has developed

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Competition: win a map of Chicago’s concrete architecture

April 27, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Dezeen is giving away five copies of a map that pinpoints Chicago’s concrete buildings, including iconic brutalist structures and university projects, in this competition. Concrete Chicago Map is a double-sided guide that details of over 50 concrete buildings and structures in the city’s Downtown and surrounding areas. The foldout design has a map on one

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Chicago’s second-tallest skyscraper planned beside Tribune Tower

April 27, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

A skyscraper by architecture firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill is set to rise next to Chicago’s historic Tribune Tower and become the second-tallest building in the city. The tower will soar to 1,422 feet (433 metres) tall – just short of the city’s Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower, which was completed by Skidmore Owings

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Moss converts Chicago corner shop into art gallery, apartment and its own studio

March 31, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architect Matt Nardella has turned an abandoned bodega in Chicago into his home and studio, arranging spaces around a courtyard he created in the centre. Nardella runs Chicago-based architecture and design firm Moss with his wife Laura Cripe, who oversees the marketing and business development. The architect and his team transformed the 6,000-square-foot (557-square-metre) grocery

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Vladimir Radutny turns two Chicago apartments into home with walnut interiors

March 28, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Chicago firm Vladimir Radutny Architects has transformed a dilapidated building in the city, using a hardwood veneer staircase to connect a pair of previously separate residences. The Sawyer Residence is located in a brick structure that dates back over 100 years, and originally contained two apartments on top of one another. Local studio Vladimir Radutny Architects

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Vladimir Radutny turns two Chicago apartments into home with walnut interiors

March 28, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Chicago firm Vladimir Radutny Architects has transformed a dilapidated building in the city, using a dark timber staircase to connect a pair of previously separate residences. The Sawyer Residence is located in a brick structure that dates back over 100 years, and originally contained two apartments on top of one another. Local studio Vladimir Radutny

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Goettsch Partners adds folded glass tower above historic Chicago hotel

March 27, 2018 Bridget Cogley 0

Local architecture firm Goettsch Partners has built a tower with a wave-like glass facade on top of Chicago’s 1920s Cedar Hotel. Goettsch Partners added the eighteen storey tower to the existing four-storey Cedar Hotel to create an expanded hotel named the Viceroy Chicago. The new tower, which spans 150,000 square feet (45,720 square metres), has a completely different

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SOM unveils office tower with luxury amenities for Chicago

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has revealed an 18-storey office block planned for Chicago, including a terrace that overlooks the city’s trendy West Loop neighbourhood. SOM’s The Porch is intended for Fulton Market district in the city’s West Loop, an area immediately west of Downtown that has become known for its upcoming contemporary design and food

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SOM unveils office tower with luxury amenities for Chicago

March 19, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Architecture firm Skidmore Owings and Merrill has revealed an 18-storey office block planned for Chicago, including a terrace that overlooks the city’s trendy West Loop neighbourhood. SOM’s The Porch is intended for Fulton Market district in the city’s West Loop, an area immediately west of Downtown that has become known for its upcoming contemporary design and food

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The Proxi restaurant occupies former printing house in Chicago

March 13, 2018 Eleanor Gibson 0

Mid-century-style lamps hang above burnt orange leather booths inside this restaurant in Chicago, designed by New York-based studio Meyer Davis in an old printing house.  The Proxi is located in the West Loop, a neighbourhood on the western bank of the Chicago River that was formerly a centre for manufacturing. Today, many of the areas

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