150+ sites. 20+ neighborhoods. Endless discoveries. Open House Chicago is back October 15-16 for another year of architectural discoveries and delights. Organized by the Chicago Architecture Center, this free festival provides behind-the-scenes access to over 150 architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings across more than 20 neighborhoods in Chicago. From innovative new designs to longstanding […]
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With the Thompson Center on the block, CAC celebrates its late creator
“Helmut Jahn: Life + Architecture” at CAC offers big pictures and tiny buildings.
Posted inArts & Culture
Our favorite things for fall arts, part two
Visual arts and architecture highlights break us out of our screen life.
Posted inArts & Culture
Architects to AIA: WTF?
But the AIA board stays mum on the reasons for exec’s abrupt exit.
Posted inArts & Culture
See the Bronzeville church that is the real birthplace of gospel
Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, one of more than 350 Open House Chicago sites this weekend, is significant musically and architecturally.
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What to expect at the new Chicago Architecture Center
The exhibits weren’t fully installed when I dropped in to preview the new home of the Chicago Architecture Center (formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation) last week, but on a return visit this week everything was up and running. The center, now in a two-story space in a riverfront Mies van der Rohe building at 111 […]
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The Chicago Architecture Foundation is now the Chicago Architecture Center
And it’s opening in its new digs on the Chicago River this weekend.