On October 2015, the city of Chicago opened the largest exhibition of contemporary architecture in North America, with many installations designed by architects, both emerging and established, and with a large battery of exhibitions and events that will put the architecture to the foreground.
From METALOCUS, we bring you a small selection of articles with some of the projects that you can see if you go to Chicago at some point:
1. IIT McCormick Tribune Campus Center by OMA.
2. The John Hancock Center by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).
3. Bertrand Goldberg's vision for Chicago: Marina City.
4. A Chicago rail station in a perforated tube by Ross Barney Architects.
5A. Mies’ Farnsworth House. By Luftwerk.
5B. A plan to lift Farnsworth House on floods.
6. WMS Boathouse at Clark Park by Studio Gang.
7. "Design Wars" Harold Washington Library.
8. Mies Van der Rohe in the IIT.
9. Crown Hall by Mies van der Rohe.
10. Robie House by Frank Lloyd Wright.
11. Restoring 860-880 Lake Shore Drive by Mies van der Rohe.
12. Prentice Women's Hospital by Bertrand Golberg.
13. The Rookery, by Burnham & Root, 1888 by Frank Lloyd Wright.
14. Federal Center by Mies van der Rohe
Chicago is the third largest city in America, with its 600 km² and a town center characterized by the large number of skyscrapers, it is a diverse city and always in motion. Being the city where the world's first skyscraper was constructed, activities and news about architecture are constant. Here we list some of the latest that we've shown you:
BEYOND,
- Chicago Architecture Biennial Announces Lakefront Kiosk COMPETITION.
- Winer of competition lakefront kiosk for Chicago Architecture Biennial.
- Chicago Architecture Biennial by Spirit of Space.
- Chicago - Five Great Buildings.
- Wanda Vista Tower, among the tallest in Chicago.
- Breaks 2 World Records In Walk Between Chicago Skyscrapers.
- First renderings. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by MAD.
