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Chicago Building Developments News

Key Contemporary Architectural Designs in Illinois, United States of America

post updated February 24, 2024

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Chicago Building Developments. Buildings are mostly located in the city centre. We aim to include Chicago buildings / architectural projects that are interesting and of good quality.

We have 4 pages of Chicago Architecture selections with links to hundreds of individual project pages.

Building Developments in Chicago

Chicago Buildings : news + key projects

Chicago Architecture : A-E

Chicago Building Designs : F-J

Chicago Building Developments : K-Z (this page)

Chicago Building Developments

Key Chicago Architecture Developments, alphabetical:

Michael Reese Hospital Buildings
Architect: Walter Gropius

photo © Grahm M. Balkany / Gropius in Chicago
Michael Reese Hospital

Millennium Park Pavilions Designs
Design: Zaha Hadid + Ben van Berkel

picture from architect
Millennium Park Pavilions : Designs

Museum of Bond Vehicles and Espionage
Design: Gensler

picture from architect
Bond Museum

Pfanner House
Design: Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design

photograph : Roland Halbe ; Doug Fogelson / DRF
Pfanner House

Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street
Design: John Ronan Architects

photo : Steve Hall of Hedrich Blessing
Poetry Foundation

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Design: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architects

photograph : Tom Rossiter
Logan Center for the Arts Chicago

Sears Tower modernization + hotel
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

image © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
Sears Tower modernization

SOS Children’s Villages building
Design: Studio Gang Architects

image : Hedrich Blessing
Chicago community center building

Spertus Insitute Jewish Studies
Design: Krueck & Sexton

photograph : Bill Zbaren
Spertus Insitute Jewish Studies

Union Station
Design: Architecture Competition Entry : Graft

picture from architect
Union Station Chicago

WIU Performing Arts Center, Macomb
Design: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects

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WIU Performing Arts Center

Chicago Building Designs – No Images

Major Chicago Architecture Projects, K-Z, alphabetical:

Marina City Buildings – aka Corncob towers, iconic Chicago architecture
1967
Design: Bertrand Goldberg Architect

McCormick Tribune Campus Center – IIT Building
2003
Design: Rem Koolhaas, OMA Architects / Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Robie House
1906
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Key Chicago Architecture Projects, K-Z, alphabetical:

Marina City – ‘Corncob towers’, 300 N. State St
1967
Bertrand Goldberg
Mixed-use development

McCormick Tribune Campus Center – IIT, 3201 South State St
2003
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA

McCormick Place West – Expansion
2007
Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates
$882m

Millennium Park Music Pavilion and Great Lawn: see Jay Pritzker Pavilion link above

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 East Chicago Avenue
1996
Josef Paul Kleiheus

Northwestern University – Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
2008-
Goettsch Partners, Inc.
Northwestern University building

Office Tower, Chicago
1997
Goettsch Partners
446ft high

Prentice Women’s Hospital
1974
Bertrand Goldberg Associates

The Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts
2007-11
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
International Architecture Competition winners
Shortlist: Hans Hollein; Fumihiko Maki and Associates; Morphosis; Studio Daniel Libeskind; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
Approx. cost: $100m
For University of Chicago

Richard J. Daley Center
1965
C. F. Murphy Associates with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – SOM + Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett

Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue
1906
Frank Lloyd Wright
For bicycle / motorcycle manufacturer Frederick C. Robie
The University of Chicago have owned the Robie House since 1963

Sears Tower, Wacker Drive
1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sears Tower

Sixteen at Trump Hotel
2008
Ivanka Trump with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates

Soldier Field football stadium
–
Wood + Zapata with Lohan Caprile Goettsch Associates

The Sporting Club at Illinois Center
1987-90
Kisho Kurokawa

The Trump International Hotel and Tower, downtown Chicago
Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
Trump International Hotel Tower
92 storeys: 2nd tallest skyscraper in USA

University of Chicago Hospitals – New Pavilion
2010
Design: Rafael Vinoly Architects

image from Rafael Viñoly Architects 220107
1,080,000 sqft