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Convention centres that have been rapidly turned into facilities for coronavirus patients should not be called hospitals, says Doug King, the healthcare principal of Stantec, which has overseen the transformation of Chicago’s McCormick Place. Stantec worked with contractor Walsh Construction to turn three halls in the centre into an alternative care facility with 3000 beds.

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The Gun Violence Memorial Project at this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial is an installation of houses filled with items belonging to victims of gun violence. Architecture and design collective MASS Design Group created the exhibit with conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas, Chicago advocacy group Purpose Over Plain and Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit that

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The artistic director of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial Yesomi Umolu has picked five highlights from the event, including a glass memorial dedicated to victims of gun violence victims and a small cinema set that explores race and gender in 20th-century. Umolu and co-curators Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares developed the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial,

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Forensic Architecture and Invisible Institute have created six videos that investigate the police’s killing of African-American barber Harith Augustus for this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial. Turner Prize-shortlisted research group Forensic Architecture teamed up with Chicago’s Invisible Institute to investigate the death of Augustus – a 37-year-old African-American barber who was shot dead by the Chicago Police

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