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New Aerial Cable Car in Chicago

Chicago architecture news – AIA Chicago to Honor Cynthia Weese, FAIA, Principal of Weese Langley Weese Architects, with 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award – contemporary Illinois building designs: built environment updates & construction design info & property images

Common Pantry Headquarters, Chicago, USA

Common Pantry Headquarters Chicago

The First Standalone Location for Chicago Nonprofit Common Pantry, Designed by Wheeler Kearns Architects, is Now Open. For over five decades, Common Pantry, the city’s longest-running food pantry, operated out of a rented basement

Farnsworth House, Illinois: Mies van der Rohe home photos

Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois, USA

Design: Mies van der Rohe, architect. A Celebration to Benefit the Farnsworth House at the Matthew Rachman Gallery. The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants to protect this celebrated residence from flooding by raising it on a hydraulic lift during storms.

860-880 Lake Shore Drive Chicago Building

Lake Shore Drive Towers

Design: Mies van der Rohe architect – one of legendary Modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s most celebrated commissions: 860-880 Lake Shore Drive in downtown Chicago, built in 1949 – 1951. Two 26-story exposed steel and glass apartment towers are set at right angles on an irregular travertine plaza.