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David Adjaye retrospective at Art Institute of Chicago includes a full-size...
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: the first career retrospective of architect David Adjaye has opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring a full-size replica of his 2007 Horizon pavilion (+...
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"Chicago is a living laboratory of future infrastructure"
Opinion: Chicago may have been the birthplace of the modern skyscraper, but the city is now more interested in landscape projects that make New York's High Line look like small fry, says Jonathan D...
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Vo Trong Nghia Architects' low-cost housing moves towards mass production
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Vietnam-based Vo Trong Nghia Architects has unveiled a fourth prototype of its low-cost housing design, which is now moving towards mass production (+ slideshow)....
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"Lack of demand" is holding back Chicago's young architectural talents
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Chicago might be the city that invented contemporary high-rise architecture but lately it has been left standing by New York, Miami and Los Angeles. Is the Windy...
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"Grace Farms is a trophy building, not a light-on-the-land wilderness retreat"
Opinion: SANAA's new river-inspired building in New Canaan may be beautiful, says Alexandra Lange, but it is still unclear whether its community-focussed programme will be useful to anyone. Grace...
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SO-IL uses steel studs to create a latticed archway inside Chicago Biennial...
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: New York firm SO-IL has used off-the-shelf steel studs to produce a canopy structure for a ramp within a historic building in downtown Chicago (+ slideshow). Titled...
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LOHA updates mid-century home built for legendary photographer Julius Shulman
Los Angeles-based Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects (LOHA) has restored and updated the Julius Shulman Home and Studio in the Hollywood Hills, where the influential photographer lived for six decades (+...
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Bezar launches e-commerce site Storefronts to offer a "broad view of design"
Business news: Bradford Shellhammer's online design retailer Bezar has announced the addition of a digital marketplace to its current offerings of pop-up and flash sales (+ slideshow). Bradford...
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Bugs adorn the walls at renovated Renwick Gallery in Washington DC
American artist Jennifer Angus has used an intricate pattern of insects to decorate a vivid pink room at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, set to reopen next month following renovation work (+...
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Helmut Jahn's Thompson government centre faces demolition threat
The governor of Illinois has announced plans to sell Helmut Jahn's James R Thompson Center in Chicago – a move that could lead to the demolition of the Postmodern government office building. Located in...
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Lowline Lab demonstrates viability of an underground New York park
A new mock-up of the Lowline, the underground park planned for New York City, demonstrates how its designers will bring sunlight and plant life below the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side (+...
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David Adjaye's Prism Lounge Series completes his Washington Collection for Knoll
Architect David Adjaye has introduced a faceted furniture range as the last in his Washington Collection for American brand Knoll. The Prism Lounge Series includes a chair, an ottoman and a side table...
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Cooper Hewitt museum launches crowdfunding campaign to bring design to school...
The Cooper Hewitt museum in New York has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for its Design in the Classroom programme, which it hopes to launch across the US. The programme introduces...
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Aamodt Plumb renovates New England home housed within a cluster of barns
US firm Aamodt Plumb Architects has updated a Massachusetts dwelling made up of old barns that were converted into a single-family home in the 1950s (+ slideshow). Called Modern Barns, the...
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New York's first micro-apartment building to be completed in December
A modular residential tower designed by nArchitects that is meant to offer a solution to New York's affordable housing shortage is nearing completion (+ movie). The building, named My Micro NY, is...
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Hyperloop's $6 billion test track will be "closest thing to teletransportation"
A test track for the Hyperloop high-speed transportation network – first conceived by entrepreneur Elon Musk – will begin construction in California next month (+ slideshow). A full-sized prototype of...
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Sou Fujimoto creates installation from potato chips and ping-pong balls
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Sou Fujimoto Architects has created an installation consisting of everyday items, from potato chips to an ashtray, that represent the Japanese firm's philosophy that...
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Rick Owens opens first Los Angeles store in 1920s ribbon factory
Fashion designer Rick Owens has opened his first store in Los Angeles on North La Brea avenue – installing architectural elements influenced by a legendary filmmaker within a former industrial space (+...
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Snøhetta's new building for SFMOMA nears completion
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has released the first images of Snøhetta's near-complete extension building showing its striated facade and atrium. The 235,000-square-foot (21,832 square metres)...
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MOS Architects creates modular house made entirely from corridors
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: New York-based studio MOS Architects has created an installation that explores the possibility of building homes using only corridor and hallway-like spaces (+...
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