Chicago

Great glass elevator to whisk visitors 83-storeys up Chicago’s Aon Center

March 28, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
Aon Center Elevator by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

North America’s tallest glass elevator, designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz, will climb the exterior of the modernist Aon Center skyscraper in Chicago in 60 seconds offering tourists panoramic views. Local firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) has conceived a glass elevator shaft to rise up the northwest corner of the 1,136-feet-high (346-metre-high) Aon Center, leading to

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Studio Gang wins bid for new Chicago O’Hare airport terminal

March 27, 2019 Bridget Cogley 0
O'Hare Global Concourse and Terminal by Studio ORD

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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Norman Kelley preserves “layered history” inside revamped Notre store in Chicago

March 26, 2019 Jenna McKnight 0
Notre interior renovation by Norman Kelley

US firm Norman Kelley has merged old and new elements inside the flagship store for clothing retailer Notre, which is housed inside a 113-year-old building in central Chicago.  The Notre store is located in the Fulton-Randolph Market District, a historic area within the city’s West Loop. It occupies the first floor of a 1906 building

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McDonald’s HQ in Chicago includes Hamburger University for new recruits

March 20, 2019 Dan Howarth 0
McDonald's Headquarters by IA Interior Architects and Studio O+A

Fast-food company McDonald’s has moved into a new headquarters in Chicago, where employees have access to a multitude of workspaces and new hires are enrolled in a collegiate experience. When McDonald’s made the decision to transplant from it home of 47 years in Oak Brook to a nine-storey building in the West Loop, the company

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Rafael Viñoly updates NEMA Chicago skyscraper design

March 18, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
NEMA Chicago by Rafael Viñoly

New York firm Rafael Viñoly Architects has revealed an updated version of a residential skyscraper for Chicago in new images and a short movie, in which the studio’s founder describes his ideas for the project. Rafael Viñoly Architects released a short film, and exterior and interior renderings of NEMA Chicago, designed for developer Crescent Heights

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SOM unveils plans for Chicago’s Lincoln Yards neighbourhood

February 11, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Lincoln Yards neighbourhood masterplan by SOM

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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Chicago Biennial 2019 will create “common ground” for all, says artistic director

February 6, 2019 Eleanor Gibson 0
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2019 Artistic Director Yesomi Umolu

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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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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