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post updated Feb 18, 2026

February 18, 2026
Morgridge Hall University of Wisconsin-Madison
Design: LMN and Kahler Slater

photo : Bruce Damonte

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Wisconsin Architecture News in 2024, chronological:

October 31, 2024
Wausau Homestead, Wisconsin, USA
Design: PKA Architecture

photo : Spacecrafting
This new project from PKA Architecture, the Wausau Homestead, is a 4-bedroom, 3-bathroom, 3,600-square-foot home located in Wausau, WI.

October 1, 2024
Lake Geneva House, Wisconsin, USA
Design: von Weise Associates

photo : HALL + MERRICK PHOTOGRAPHERS
This project involved a significant addition and renovation to a 4-bedroom home originally completed in 2005. After the original client passed ownership on to his daughter and son-in-law, the residence underwent a transformation that not only expanded its capacity but also redefined its connection to the natural surroundings.

September 11, 2024
Pritzker Military Archives Center, Milwaukee
Architects: Jahn/

photo : Tom Rossiter
Jahn has completed the state-of-the-art facility to house and expand the collections of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library. The library relocated its operations from Chicago to the new Archives Center in Somers, a village in Kenosha County approximately 30 miles outside of Milwaukee.

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Wisconsin Architecture

Contemporary Wisconsin Architectural Projects in 2014 to 2023, chronological:

November 10, 2023
Clearwater Lake Retreat, Northern Wisconsin, United States of America
Design: Wheeler Kearns Architects

photo : Steve Hall

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July 19, 2022
Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee
Design: Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater

image Courtesy architecture office
Together with the Milwaukee Public Museum, Ennead Architects and Kahler Slater today unveiled the design for the new 200,000 sqft museum building, set on a 2.4 acre site in the burgeoning Haymarket neighborhood of Milwaukee. Four core principles influenced the design – community, nature, education, and the preservation of the museum’s vast collections. The new building is slated to break ground in late 2023 and open in 2026.

Jan 4, 2022
Haas Valley Farm, Potosi, Wisconsin
Architecture: Searl Lamaster Howe Architects

photo : Tony Soluri
The brief for Haas Valley Farm was to design a weekend getaway for a Chicago area family on property that has been in their extended family for generations. Tall and thin, the Haas Valley Farm Residence perches on its site which is centered in the Driftless Area, a small pocket of the Midwest so named because the glaciers skipped over the region, leaving a surprising landscape of rolling hills and deep valleys bisected by the Mississippi River.

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Oct 21, 2021
The Wall of Resistance – Cold War Veterans Memorial Wisconsin
Architects: Collaborative Architecture

image courtesy of architecture practice
The proposal for the Cold War Veterans Memorial International Competition, by the Pritzker Foundation. Even though the project could not make it to the shortlist; the design studio reckon the entry as a significant work in the studio’s oeuvre, as the proposal successfully translates a difficult & abstract idea into an absorbing experiential architecture.

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Apr 8, 2020
G5 Brewing Company in Beloit , WI
Architects: Cushing Terrell

photo : Ryan Hainey Photography
Melding aspects of the Gundersons’ home state (Wisconsin) and their second home (Montana), the design balances two vernacular aesthetics, contemporary details, and materials to create a comfortable brewery and restaurant in which to gather for good company and a pint or two.

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Aug 15, 2017
SC Johnson Headquarters Racine – Architectural Tours News
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

photo : Iwan Baan, Courtesy the Chicago Architecture Biennial
2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial iniatiative for Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building visits.

Apr 20, 2017
10 house at Fox Point, Wisconsin, United States
Design: Johnsen Schmaling Architects

photograph : John J. Macaulay
The 510 House is a private residence located in a postwar suburb on Milwaukee’s north shore, its volume carefully embedded in the site’s gently sloping contours and cradled by the mature trees and thick underbrush lining the property’s edges.

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Dec 23, 2016 ; Sep 7, 2014
The Usonian Inn Wisconsin, Wisconsin River Valley, WI
Design: J C Caraway architect

photo from The Usonian Inn
Spring Green’s first original Talliesin inspired inn, the only Usonian Motel in the World.

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Milwaukee Building Photos

Dec 16, 2010
Milwaukee photos copyright Joe Lekas

Milwaukee Art Museum – Quadracci Pavilion, 700 N. Art Museum Drive, Milwaukee
2001
Design: Santiago Calatrava Architects
Including the Reiman Bridge, the Quadracci Pavilion forms extension to War Memorial by Eero Saarinen architect.

The brise soleil has since become a symbol for the city of Milwaukee

Architectural Wings Open in Milwaukee Over Lake Michigan (Wisconsin):

Architectural Wings Closing in Milwaukee Over Lake Michigan (Wisconsin):

Mitchell Park Conservatory Domes, Milwaukee

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Wisconsin Architecture Developments

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Wisconsin Buildings, USA. We aim to include projects that are either of top quality or interesting, or ideally both.

We cover completed Wisconsin buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across the state. The focus is on contemporary buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

Major Wisconsin Building Designs, alphabetical:

Brittlebush, Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture
Design: Simón De Agüero

picture from architect
Brittlebush was developed as a design-build experience for Simón De Agüero, graduate student, designer, and project manager. The design is an experimental desert dwelling for winter residents at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Simón envisioned the design to be an open-air living space with protective roof and walls for the sleeping area.

Fortaleza Hall : S C Johnson Headquarters campus, Racine
Design: Foster + Partners

photo : James Steinkamp_Steinkamp Photography

Arado WeeHouse – Prefabricated House – Prefabricated Modular Vacation Retreat
Design: Alchemy Architects

image from architects office

Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research Building
Design by HOK with Zimmerman Architectural Studios, Inc.

photo from architects studio
The first of three phases for the new WIMR at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has been completed, home to one of the top Cancer Research Facilities in the U.S.