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Once renovated, the 79-year-old former Altgeld Gardens Commercial Center designed by noted architects Keck & Keck will house ...
He did, and partly using remains from that chunk of old Chicago, he built Architectural Artifacts. He kept an eye out for the unusual. Among the first pieces in the shop was an early driver’s ...
We took a tour to check it out. Our docent was Steve Gersten, a retired trader and architecture buff. Here's what we learned.
Also on the horizon this fall: New towers that have altered the skylines of downtown and Lincoln Park, as well as the reopening of the old Chicago Post Office. Chicago Architectural Biennial ...
The Old Joliet Prison was open for nearly 150 years and has been closed for more than 20. A section of the prison that has ...
A 150-year-old building in Chicago's Streeterville ... That is the subject of the latest Sun-Times column by ABC7 Chicago architecture critic Lee Bey, who joined ABC7 Monday to talk more about ...
Tom Liravongsa — or as social media knows him, Tom the Skyscraper Guy — has racked up millions of views on videos about the ...
It’s a little tough to see here, but the Chicago Architecture Foundation even updated the old London Guarantee Building, which reopened this summer as the LondonHouse hotel. A glassy addition ...
brass doorknobs (and old-fashioned keys), and exquisite ironwork enclosing the elevators. 1 W. Washington. Pendry Hotel (1929): The Carbide and Carbon Building, built in 1929, is an architectural gem ...