Shortly before the 1911 opening of the John Wanamaker store opposite City Hall, Daniel Burnham, its Chicago architect, wrote to a friend about how pleased he was with the building:“The building ...

Chicago architect Leslie Ventsch has won the Burnham Design Competition for his rendering of a new bridge at Lake Shore Drive and the Chicago River and a companion ”gateway” to Chicago.The ...

After the overreaching of Modern city planning—barren plazas, rows of soulless apartment slabs—urban design got a bad rap. But as suggested in the documentary Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and ...

Renovated by Blue Star Properties with architect Aric Lasher of Chicago-based HBRA, the eatery, whose name is a nod to Burnham’s Classical Revival style of architecture, spans a sprawling 24,000 ...

Daniel Burnham co-wrote the Plan of Chicago with Edward Bennett. The first-place winner of a design competition for a public memorial celebrating Daniel Burnham's impact on Chicago will be announced ...

Burnham was completely dependent on his design partners—even the Plan of Chicago, though popularly remembered as the Burnham Plan, was cowritten by the young architect and city planner Edward ...

Daniel Burnham still looms large in Chicago's architectural culture—if there actually is one anymore. The man with a plan—the 1909 Plan of Chicago that codified a vision of the city as a well ...

Designed by architect Daniel Burnham, its striking 22-story-high, wedge-shaped structure soon became an iconic architectural site, even appearing in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, symbolizing ...

Lookman Muhammed's design wins Burnham-inspired contest By Nicola Orichuia • Published December 15, 2009 • Updated on December 16, 2009 at 12:38 pm BOOKMARKER ...

Important Chicago architect Daniel Burnham famously said, "make no little plans," and one of his final designs was the embodiment of big thinking. A new luxury hotel that has opened in the 1914 ...

Architect David Woodhouse won the competition to design a memorial to Chicago planner Daniel Burnham, officials from AIA Chicago Foundation announced Thursday. Odd News // 1 decade ago The almanac ...

The former Filene’s department store, a longtime landmark in Boston’s Downtown Crossing neighborhood, will be renovated and set against a new 606-foot-tall glass skyscraper. The design by Handel ...