Category: Architecture

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Dazzling designs: New towers, mid-rises represent the cream of the architectural crop

Dazzling designs: New towers, mid-rises represent the cream of the architectural crop

By Phil Berger The new millennium has been a good time for residential architecture in Chicago. After decades of banality, dictated either by devel [...]
X/O improves the growing South Loop skyline

X/O improves the growing South Loop skyline

By Dana Dubriwny Driving south along Lake Shore Drive, commuters travel through a landscape of varying architectural quality. Execs at Kargil Develo [...]
Jazzy high-rise stands tall at 1720 S Michigan

Jazzy high-rise stands tall at 1720 S Michigan

If there’s one thing prospective buyers appreciate, it’s the chance to walk around a finished home. Model units are an essential tool for buyers, and [...]
Size matters: Luxury rises with building heights on Chicago’s soaring skyline

Size matters: Luxury rises with building heights on Chicago’s soaring skyline

The Sears Tower, which for more than three decades was the tallest building in the world, stands 1,450 feet and, depending on how you count them, 10 [...]
Architectural rebound: after years of dull home design, Chicago is back

Architectural rebound: after years of dull home design, Chicago is back

In 2003, architecture critic and local blogger Lynn Becker wrote a cover story in the Chicago Reader calling on developers to “stop the blandness.” [...]
Lucien Lagrange evokes classical design in tony Ten East Delaware

Lucien Lagrange evokes classical design in tony Ten East Delaware

For a high-rise to be successful, it must have three elements in harmony: location, architecture and layout. So says Lucien Lagrange, the French-bo [...]
JFJ's Superior 110 reaching for new heights in River North

JFJ's Superior 110 reaching for new heights in River North

If you’re about to drop half a million dollars on a new condo, chances are you’re hoping for a room with a view. Prospective homebuyers shopping the [...]
Building an icon

Building an icon

Trump brand, Skidmore design raise giant profile on prominent river perch An awed "whoa" was Dana Sindha's gut reaction to Trump International Hot [...]
A modern edge

A modern edge

CMK combines cutting-edge design with affordable prices in South Loop On a recent January afternoon, a young woman in slim gray pants and a white f [...]
Architects dish

Architects dish

Story by Alison Soltau  Six top Chicago architects discuss residential design, hot trends, pet peeves and buildings they love For a while there, [...]
Dancing in the street

Dancing in the street

Lagrange's cutting-edge X/O towers ready to tango in the South Loop  Architect Lucien Lagrange is best known for his ultra-luxury buildings in and [...]
Panoramic vision

Panoramic vision

Thrush's 740 Fulton sits head and shoulders above West Loop neighbors One of the best places in Chicago to linger over lunch or an after-work drink [...]
Modern values

Modern values

CMK's 1720 S. Michigan combines cutting-edge look, low prices in South Loop Homebuyers often associate cutting-edge design with high prices, but CMK [...]
Chicago's best new homes

Chicago's best new homes

Chicagoans have always treated architecture as a spectator sport, but for decades frustrated fans have watched as the players repeatedly dropped the [...]
Timeless homes

Timeless homes

North Shore's CBI brings its high-end historic homes to city It has been more that 15 years since the principals behind CBI Custom Homes started thei [...]
The mod squad

The mod squad

Big new projects tout progressive design while low-rise looks to past Speculative housing in Chicago hasn't offered much for architecture aficionados [...]
On the rise

On the rise

Something good is happening to highrise design in Chicago It must be tall, every inch of it tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the [...]
Boul Mich gem converting to condos

Boul Mich gem converting to condos

The environs of Millennium Park can count another adaptive reuse project among their budding ranks of residential buildings. At press time, develope [...]

550 St. Clair courts modern aesthetic

It wasn't long ago that real estate agents and developers were insisting that modern design would not sell when it came to Chicago real estate. Today, [...]

Restoring a historic gem in the Gap

Viewing the latest work in progress by craftsman developer Bill Lavicka is always a joy. Lavicka, whose passion is restoring Chicago's historic archi [...]
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