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Chicago Building Developments News
Key Contemporary Architectural Designs in Illinois, United States of America
post updated September 2, 2025
Chicago Architecture Design – chronological list
We choose 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.
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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)
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Chicago Building Developments
Key Chicago Architecture Developments, alphabetical:
Michael Reese Hospital Buildings
Architect: Walter Gropius
photo © Grahm M. Balkany / Gropius in Chicago
Millennium Park Pavilions : Designs
Design: Zaha Hadid + Ben van Berkel
picture from architect
Bond Museum Vehicles and Espionage
Design: Gensler
picture from architect
Pfanner House
Design: Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design
photograph : Roland Halbe ; Doug Fogelson / DRF
Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street
Design: John Ronan Architects
photo : Steve Hall of Hedrich Blessing
Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts Chicago
Design: Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Architects
photograph : Tom Rossiter
Sears Tower modernization + hotel
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
image © Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
SOS Children’s Villages building
Design: Studio Gang Architects
image : Hedrich Blessing
Spertus Insitute Jewish Studies
Design: Krueck & Sexton
photograph : Bill Zbaren
Union Station Chicago
Design: Architecture Competition Entry : Graft
picture from architect
WIU Performing Arts Center, Macomb
Design: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
picture from architect
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Chicago Building Designs – No Images
Major Chicago Architecture Design Projects, K-Z, alphabetical:
Marina City Buildings – aka Corncob towers, iconic Chicago architecture, 300 N. State St
1967
Design: Bertrand Goldberg Architect
Mixed-use development
McCormick Tribune Campus Center – IIT Building, 3201 South State St
2003
Design: Rem Koolhaas, OMA Architects / Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Robie House, 5757 Woodlawn Avenue
1906
Design: Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
For bicycle / motorcycle manufacturer Frederick C. Robie
The University of Chicago have owned the Robie House since 1963
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Key Chicago Architecture Projects, K-Z, alphabetical:
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 Building – Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music
2008-
Goettsch Partners, Inc.
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
Sears Tower, Wacker Drive
1973
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Sixteen at Trump Hotel
2008
Ivanka Trump with Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
Soldier Field football stadium
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Wood + Zapata with Lohan Caprile Goettsch Associates
The Sporting Club at Illinois Center
1987-90
Kisho Kurokawa
Trump International Hotel Tower, downtown Chicago
Adrian Smith, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
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
Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Condominium Tower – proposal
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Destefano and Partners
335m high, 100 storeys – proposed
Zero-energy tower – proposal
2007-
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
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Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Illinois Building Developments
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Ball-Nogues Studio
photograph : Michelle Litvin
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum Building by Zaha Hadid Architects
Hans Hollein – Education: Illinois Institute of Technology, USA: 1959
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