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MetropolisLikes NeoCon Awards 2023 Are Now Open
For the 10th year, Metropolis editors seek the best products being featured at NeoCon for the MetropolisLikes Awards program.
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Viewpoints
An Exhibition Allows Visitors to Experience Long-Demolished Works by Wright and Sullivan
Louis Sullivan’s Garrick Theater and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Building are recreated in an experiential exhibition at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.
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Projects
Vladimir Radutny Makes His Mark on Chicago—One Mies Apartment at a Time
With Miesian precision, the architect has renovated a number of apartments in the iconic Lake Shore Drive buildings, prioritizing openness and natural light.
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An Outpost of the Swiss Government Is Rooted in a Multinational Modernist Legacy
In Chicago’s John Hancock Center, an office of the Swiss Consulate was designed by HHF Architects and Kwong Von Glinow, who took cues from Swiss Modernist Otto Kolb.
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Projects
In Suburban Chicago, Ardmore House Celebrates Contrasts
For their own home, local architects Alison Von Glinow and Lap Chi Kwong put a twist on the traditional gable-roofed house.
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Viewpoints
Ross Hansen’s Objects Span the Playful to the Grotesque
In a new exhibition at Chicago's Volume Gallery, Ross Hansen transposes nature’s excesses to a startling, yet exquisite effect.
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Projects
At Columbia College Chicago, Gensler Turns the Atrium Building Inside Out
The college's new student center reimagines the typically strict delineation between spaces that exist on urban campuses.
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Viewpoints
“Southern Exposure” Uncovers the Proud Architectural Legacy of Chicago’s South Side
In his new book, the journalist and photographer Lee Bey directs readers to some of Chicago's greatest architectural treasures, nearly all of them hiding in plain sight.
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Projects
The Magic of This Duplex Apartment Is in Its Walls
At a Lakeview penthouse in Chicago, clever spatial fixes and a host of rich materials balance the classic and the contemporary.
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Viewpoints
Virgil Abloh’s MCA Exhibition Reveals the Power—and Limits—of Design Disruption
Hemmed in by quotation marks and material double-entendres, the IIT College of Architecture–educated designer can’t break through the brands he uses to define his work.
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Projects
In Chicago, the Luxe Boutique Notre Shakes Up the Retail Typology
Designed by Abigail Chang, Ben Gott, Isabelle Reford, and architecture firm Norman Kelley, the West Loop store features an entryway that doubles as a performance and lecture venue.
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Projects
At the Chicago Botanic Garden, a New Space Helps Kids Deeply Engage With Nature
The Regenstein Learning Campus encourages children’s sensory discovery of the natural world—minus the gaudiness of plastic playgrounds.
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Profiles
Architect Stanley Tigerman Dies at 88
Known for his idiosyncratic style, Tigerman founded his Chicago firm in 1964 and has been a seminal figure in both practice and academia.
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Projects
On Chicago’s South Side, a Bold Mixed-Use Healthcare Project Aims to Be a Community Anchor and Public Health Salve
The proposed design of the Focal Point Community Campus for the southwest side of Chicago puts health care at the center of a holistic approach to living. Quite literally, in fact. Conceived by HDR, the 33-acre mixed-use
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Viewpoints
The Deep Value of Community Engagement in Urban Planning
At a recent Metropolis Think Tank in Chicago, architects and developers explored the immense benefits of crossing social and cultural boundaries when planning new neighborhoods.
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Profiles
Designer Christien Meindertsma Is Pushing the Design Possibilities of Humble Flax
An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago shows how Meindertsma is using flax to create sustainable furniture and objects.
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Projects
Sunlight and Landscape Views Shape Studio Gang’s Latest Chicago Tower
Solstice on the Park, a rental apartment tower in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood, is within spitting distance of Lake Michigan and Frederick Law Olmsted’s Jackson Park.
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Viewpoints
From Housing to Activism, the Next Chicago Architecture Biennial Will Bring Global Issues to Chicago
Yesomi Umolu, the artistic director of the upcoming Chicago Architecture Biennial, discusses the themes and narratives to be explored at this year’s event.
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Projects
John Ronan Architects Designs ETFE Cushion Facade at IIT
"I wanted to do a light, cloudlike building that made Crown Hall look heavy by comparison," says architect John Ronan, referring to the campus's iconic Mies van der Rohe building.
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Projects
An Old Chicago Factory Loft Is Transformed Into a Homebody’s Dream
Faced with a 2,250-square-foot space and 24-foot ceilings, Vladimir Radutny Architects deployed multiple strategies to make this former automobile factory homey.