The County Board ignored interest from three developers who wanted to adapt and reuse the nationally significant Will County Courthouse.

It could have been anything—now it will be an empty lot.

📢!!! Saving Places / AACHAF Conserving Black Modernism grant program now seeking submissions for the 2024 round of funding. Grants to $150K for public/non-profit modern-era sites designed by Black architects. More here and LMK if I can help w/ questions: savingplaces.org/black-modernis…

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Sobre arquitectura sostenible y “culpable”. Aquí la prometida versión extendida de las entrevistas a Marta Peris y Noemí Blager, comisaria de la exposición ‘A lot with little’, ahora en MAS Context en Chicago.

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Foggy Christmas Eve in Chicago

Last episode of New Angle: Voice Season 2 drops today: a double-header on the two female partners in The Architects Collaborative, Sally Harkness and Jean Fletcher, and their attempt to design a better cul-de-sac.

'Architecture, Family Style'
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For my monthly column in MAS Context, I wrote about two monuments in Chicago, the Columbus Memorial, which has taken on layers of meaning after the murder of George Floyd, and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial, honoring police torture survivors. mascontext.com/observations/c…

Recognizing Denise Scott Brown’s work is necessary for understanding American #architecture in the second half of the twentieth century. From architectural historian Ashley: bit.ly/3ReWdP7 #architecture

Chicago-born Richard Hunt, one of the foremost African-American abstract sculptor and artist of public sculpture of the twentieth century has died. He was 88.

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New in Observations: “Hannover and Over Again!”

Jason Griffiths (Jason Griffiths) visits the derelict 2000 Netherlands Pavilion before it gets redeveloped.

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Thanks to all who have already visited the exhibition “A Lot With Little” curated by Noemí Blager with films by Tapio Snellman. It is on view until January 27.

Here is a video of the exhibit filmed by Dan Kelleghan and edited by Hector Pacheco.

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