The overgrown retro design will be replaced with a glass box topped with trees and surrounded by a park, designed by an architect fresh off the biggest public-architecture project of 21st-century Chicago. Read more
Carol Ross Barney, the architect behind the Chicago Riverwalk, has spent her 40-year career bringing sumptuous yet functional aesthetics to public projects. Read more
From a slate of new Tribune Towers to amusingly lush McMansion wallpaper to a manifesto about how the world became so beige, architects and artists try to look both past and forward at the architectural exposition. Read more
