Chicago Urban River Edges Ideas Lab

Chicago Riverwalk

Chicago Urban River Edges Ideas Lab: architectural firms Ross Barney Architects, David Adjaye, James Corner Field Operations, Studio Gang, Perkins & Will and SOM among participants.

Willis Tower Building Renovation, Chicago

Willis Tower Building Wacker Drive entry

Numerous improvements revealed for Chicago’s tallest building. Totaling up to $500 m the renovations will include six floors of new retail space, an outdoor deck and a winter garden. The tower was once the world’s tallest building for 25 years.

Obama Presidential Center Building Chicago, USA

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama

Landscape architecture team for the OPC announced: Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), Site Design Group, and Living Habitats to work with architects Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects and InterActive Design Architects.

Marina City Towers Chicago Buildings

Marina City Towers Chicago Buildings

The Marina City towers, 1959-67, are two of the most recognisable structures in America’s ‘windy city’. Architect Bertrand Goldberg’s distinctive-looking high-rise buildings, part of a larger Marina City complex, are icons of Modern architecture.

Medical Dermatology Clinic in Chicago

Medical Dermatology Clinic in Chicago

Design: Woodhouse Tinucci Architects

Housed in a brick and timber loft in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, Medical Dermatology Associates is a 5500sf medical clinic for a newly formed practice.

Ansarada Workspace in Chicago, financial data services

Ansarada Workspace

Design by THOSE ARCHITECTS. Maybe the last thing you would imagine to experience on entering a financial services office is a luxurious ‘collaboration room’ with woollen sphere seats, more likely to be found in a fine art installation than a meeting room.

747 North Clark, Chicago Residential Building

747 North Clark Chicago

Design: Ranquist Development Group. A residential building on a 40’ x 100’ inner-city lot in the upper-scale River North neighborhood. Clean lines and a palette of industrial materials follow the modernist roots of Chicago’s architectural heritage.

Zurich North America Headquarters Schaumburg

Zurich North America HQ

Design: Goettsch Partners. 783,800-sqft building will be home to nearly 3,000 employees and contractors, and was designed with a focus on communication, collaboration and wellness.

Vista Tower Chicago Skyscraper: Studio Gang

Vista Tower Chicago Skyscraper

Design: Studio Gang Architects ; Architect of Record: bKL Architecture. Three connected supertall skyscraper buildings in a row, with heights of 46, 70 and 95 storeys. The residential & hotel complex will be 1,140 feet (348 metres) high at its pinnacle.

New Aerial Cable Car in Chicago Navy Pier

New Chicago Aerial Cable Car

Design: Marks Barfield Architects and Davis Brody Bond

The Chicago Skyline is a proposed new aerial cable car tourist attraction linking Navy Pier, the Chicago Lakefront, the Riverwalk running alongside the Chicago River, and downtown Chicago.

Chicago Building Photos: Architecture

Wrigley Field Chicago building

Chicago architecture photos by Joe Lekas – find pictures of major Illinois buildings, USA – Chicago building photos, images of the top skyscrapers in the Windy City

World Headquarters for SRAM, Chicago

World HQ for SRAM

SRAM LLC, the world’s second largest manufacturer of bicycle components, has opened its new headquarters in Chicago in a space designed by global architecture and design firm Perkins+Will.

Chicago building designs, Illinois architecture

Aqua Tower Chicago skyscraper design

Chicago building designs, major new architecture in Illinois – Architects, pictures – Chicago architecture developments, Illinois building designs & skyscrapers developments.