If you’re fed up with all the last-minute holiday shoppers glutting Michigan Avenue, duck into The Art Institute of Chicago to check out the new exhibit from the Department of Architecture and Design: Young Chicago, which features 16 Chicago-based designers working across the architectural, industrial, fashion and graphic media.
Architects are showcasing two buildings being constructed far, far away from Chicago. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill‘s Ross Wimer shows his 73-story Infinity Tower (pictured), which is under construction in Dubai, the Arab emirate that is giving the ol’ U.S. of A. a real thumping in the architecture department. A series of digital renderings by Qua’Virarch‘s Paul Preissner of the Gyeonggi-Do Prehistory Museum in South Korea will also be on display. Chicago Reader‘s Lynn Becker describes the work as “Frank Gehry in concrete and glass instead of titanium.”
The exhibit is free with museum admission and runs through April 29.
