Tadao Ando   United States   The site is located in a quiet residential district close to the center of Chicago. Along this long, narrow north-south oriented site, the objective was to produce a comfortable and private residential space while developing an interaction with the n

Ensamble Studio   United States   Designing a tower is often reduced to a boring exercise of cleverly resolving a central core and a more or less fancy facade. And between the two, a monotonous pile of identical floors, and identical spaces. Big Bang Towers explore the spatial and st

Studio ORD   United States   Studio ORD, headed by Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang), in collaboration with the firms Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), Corgan, Milhouse Engineering and Construction, and STL Architects, has won the competition to replace Chicago’s O’Hare Global Terminal, aka

Studio ORD   United States   The structure combines a pattern of timber-clad steel beams, which filter sunlight, with Y-shaped columns placed at intervals of more than 30 meters. A six-point skylight, in reference to the flag of Chicago, greets passengers... [+]

SOM   United States   The proposal combines operational efficiency with the improvement of passenger experience, reinventing the concept of waiting room with outdoor spaces filled with vegetation and indoor areas for work, entertainment or rest... [+]

Foster + Partners Norman Foster Epstein JGMA   United States   The terminal is covered by a unique roof structure that binds the design together. Using cutting-edge technology, it is supported at just six points, creating a grand unified space filled with sunlight and designed to meet future operational needs...

Fentress Architects EXP Brook Architecture Garza Karhoff Engineering   United States   Equipped with the latest technological advances, the terminal offers a sustainable space where the efficiency of transfers is the priority. Daylight and the space composition guide passengers intuitively along a journey that hopes to be inspiring, mo

Santiago Calatrava   United States   The roof design makes reference to the shell present in the city corporate seal, and the ‘Y’ shape of the terminal evokes the forking course of the Chicago River. Filled with plants, the building also recalls the history of the place... [+]

Tadao Ando   United States   The same client of the house in Chicago contacted the studio for a new commission on the plot adjacent to the dwelling. On this occasion, the project involved the conversion of a residential building, built in the early 20th century, into a contempor

Pezo von Ellrichshausen   United States   This slender and stable figure is meant to convey a sense of silent and convoluted simplicity. It is self-centered, self-regulated and self-located as an opaque monolith without any scale, direction or hierarchy, as a podium for an invisible statue.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The new Modern Wing for the Art Institute of Chicago is not only the most ambitious extension undertaken by the institution, but it also turns this museum into the second largest in the United States. Consisting of two pavilions connected by a large

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The project wraps a tower and a horizontal plate in an ETFE membrane that is fritted to accept projections both from within and from the outside, creating a lifted public space for the city, the Sky Park, that brings new life to the surrounding green

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   The aim of the project was to reinvigorate the IIT Campus, planned by Mies van der Rohe in the 1940s. Over the years the campus had sprawled but lost half its population, and was separated by elevated railway tracks. The competition called for a new

United States   The natural resistance of Douglas fir tree wood to mildew has made it possible to build the pavilion cutting down on the number chemical treatments usually applied. The structure is completed with fiberglass to increase its curvature.

UNStudio   United States   Raised along the banks of Lake Michigan to celebrate the centenary of the Plan of Chicago of 1909, the temporary pavilion has a perforated roof through which the visitor can have a peep at the urban skyline.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The new Modern Wing for the Art Institute of Chicago is not only the most ambitious extension undertaken by the institution, but it also turns this museum into the second largest in the United States. Consisting of two pavilions connected by a large

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   United States   The Art Institute of Chicago consists of two wings connected by a bridge-building that goes up over railway tracks. The need to extend the facilities to house new uses and improve overall performance encouraged to add another wing to the existing mus

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   During his dramatic flight to Europe in 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright had been impressed by the leisurely outdoor culture of the German and Austrian Biergärten. His friend Ed Waller, Jr., who shared this sentiment, suggested that Wright design just such a

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   The robie House is the culmination of an entire era in the career and life of Frank Lloyd Wright. His built work of the two decades flanking 1900 sufficed to earn him a place in history as a great architect; fortunately, he still had energy and ideas

Alberto Ballesteros   There are many Chicagos besides that of the postcard picture: the rough Chicago of meatpacking that Sandburg lyricized, the sordid Chicago of gangsters that Algren novelized, the marginal Chicago of Chicanos where Sandra Cisneros grew up. The same go

Alejandro Bernabeu   Chicago’s cool. So begins ACS’s tenth book on cities, though it’s not that simple. The myth of Chicago is not only due to its place and history. Its hydraulics, buildings, and bridges are important, but not enough to cover the city’s significance. Ne

Chicago Tribune   Blair Kamin   The Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s modernist masterpiece in Chicago’s far southwest suburbs, needs no introduction. As graceful as a Greek temple and as serene as a Shinto shrine, the single-room house seems to float over a meadow along

Chicago Tribune   Blair Kamin   Diller Scofidio + Renfro conceived the design as an innovative addition to Chicago’s renowned collection of tall buildings. The tower transitions from a city-engaging ground floor to contemplative clusters of meeting rooms above. The new structure’s

Obama Foundation   The Obama Foundation has revealed updated renderings for the Obama Presidential Center (OPC), the project designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects (TWBTA) for a site in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side. The Obama Presidential Center will

Two issues ago, in time with the opening of Lausanne’s Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, we highlighted the splendid international trajectory of Barozzi Veiga, dotted as it is with building works as iconic as the Mieczyslaw Karlowicz Philharmonic Hall in

Headed by Jeanne Gang (one of this year’s 100 most influential people in the world, according to Time magazine), Studio Gang – in collaboration with three other architecture and engineering companies – has won the competition to carry out the renovat

Curbed   Jay Koziarz   Built as a private residence near the University of Chicago’s Hyde Park campus, the Robie House epitomizes Wright’s Prairie School architectural style. The early 20th-century movement drew both its name and inspiration from the Midwest’s flat la

Empty the building, leave its sculptural brick enclosure exactly the way it is, and implant in it a massive heart of concrete. This was the strategy followed by Tadao Ando when he transformed an old residential block in the city of Chicago into the n

A ceremony was held in Mies van der Rohe’s mythical building for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to announce the winners of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), an important award that the IIT will from now on be givi

Con ocasión del centenario del Plan de Chicago de 1909—un influyente diseño de Daniel Burnham y Edward Bennett para la reforma del trazado de la ciudad—, el estudio de arquitectura de Zaha Hadid y los holandeses UNStudio han construido sendos pabello

Tras diez años de obras, finalmente ha abierto sus puertas la ampliación del Art Institute Chicago (AIC), última obra americana del estudio de Renzo Piano. Con 24.500 metros cuadrados y denominada Modern Wing por albergar la colección de arte de los

Jean-Louis Cohen   A skyscraper inscribes its geometric outline into the night sky of the metropolis. Its facade is punctuated by the rectangular openings of its tiers of windows, while its base plunges down into a checkerboard of streets lit by the beams of automobile

Luis Fernández-Galiano   It is probable that Mies should have wanted to close his creative career with clear-span buildings, his most civic constructions, in which the community meets and acknowledges it self at the same time; however, his most ecumenical heritage would be t

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The last beats of Mies’s career would have their most precious moments in the universal space projects, those that the critique groups under the clear-span heading and which according to some of his collaborators were also the favorite ones of the ar

Luis Fernández-Galiano   While in the Herbert Greenwald projects he worked in the demanding context of real estate development, Mies continued teaching and building within the academic environment of the Illinois Insitute of Technology. Always with the help of his old German

Luis Fernández-Galiano   If we generally use the term ‘Chicago School’ to refer to the builders of skyscrapers of the last decades of the 19th century – William Le Baron Jenny, Louis Sullivan or John Wellborn Root –, the great works by Mies and his disciples during the fifti

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The development of the syntax of steel, glass and brick at the IIT campus to create the vernacular language of American construction did not drive Mies away from his European investigations about universal space, that in the new continent could benef

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Mies moves to the United States in 1938 without speaking English, and without knowing the language of American construction either. But during his first decade in Chicago this taciturn German develops the vocabulary and syntax of a vernacular industr

Vladimir Belogolovsky   A Critic's Guide to 100 Post-Modern Buildings in Chicago from 1978 to 2025

Miguel Aguiló   Madrid  2022  
ACS   - 322 Pages 

Susan S. Benjamin Michelangelo Sabatino   Chicago Houses, 1929-1975

Ricardo Daza   Barcelona  2000  
Actar Publishers   - 188 Pages