iit innovation center by john ronan architects opens.
the ed kaplan family institute for innovation and tech entrepreneurship at the illinois institute of technology opens this month, the first new academic building at iit in over forty years.
lucas museum of narrative art by mad architects finally breaks ground in los angeles.
originally meant to be constructed in chicago in 2014, the location moved to the west coast because of its initial lakefront site and the legal issues it posed. chicago-based DesignApplause feels that a big one got away.
the obama presidential library presents a revise in hopes of a 2018 groundbreaking.
revised concept plan is in response to local criticism on location, aesthetics, and function among other things.
2017 chicago architecture biennial week of 24 > 30 december.
frida escoberdo has designed a monolithic timber, tiered platform in randolf square – a singular formal gesture with moveable modules that allows for informal lounging, gatherings, and forums. the installation mirrors the chicago cultural center’s gridded ceiling.
2017 chicago architecture biennial week of 17 > 23 december.
asks 24 architects to reconsider the status of the architectural interior. the exercise foregrounds the importance of the interior as a model of sociability. the architects reference a photograph of a canonical interior, from any time period.
2017 chicago architecture biennial week of 10 > 16 december.
the serial nature of these works might suggest a reading against a lineage of art from the 1970s often called process or serial art, which exhausted an idea or concept in a monotonous way.
2017 chicago architecture biennial week of 3 > 9 december.
redistribution as a practice has the potential to recover a type of building that – unlike renovation, adaptive reuses, preservation, or restoration = permits the circulation of building components, taken apart, moved around, piled up, and mixed with new construction to create alternative uses. t + e + a + m is looking for a patron to make it happen.
a decade of artful negotiating louvre abu dhabi by ateliers jean nouvel opens.
the principle is that it remains a museum that belongs to the geography, and culture and identity of the country.
u.s. tax code overhaul would bulldoze incentive for restoring time-honored architectural gems.
the overhaul of the tax code unveiled thursday by house republican leaders would hit hard at one of chicago’s great cultural assets.
lego house in billund denmark. architects bjarke ingels group (big).
at its finest – that is what architecture – and lego play – is all about: enabling people to imagine new worlds that are more exciting and expressive than the status quo – and to provide them with the skills to make them reality.