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Kaddish for a Legendary Church
A raging fire guts Adler & Sullivan's 1891 K.A.M./Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood and, in silencing the rich echoes of over a century of human aspiration, offers a potent reminder of how architecture channels urban memory.
2000-foot-tall Pigeon Roost for Chicago's Lakefront?
Will cable and satellite TV make the massive Cesar Pelli-designed HDTV tower proposed for Chicago's Gold Coast a white elephant? Lynn Becker critiques the Beitler Tower proposal.
When Modernism Goes Bad
Milwaukee's 1965 Amtrak Station is a shrine to bad design, but it still has its charms, which stand to be wiped out by the plan to fix it.
The Death of Marshall Fields and the Dissolution of the Sense of Place
In banishing the Marshall Fields name, Federated Department Stores is just doing to Chicago what's its already done to cities across the country. The implications are anything but positive, writes Lynn Becker.
The New Face Of Recycling In Chicago
A contest sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the AIA is hoping to make recycling hip in Chicago again.
Monument Mori
Rethinking death and the city.
Planning And Its Disconnects
Can urban planning be a means to great architecture?
Slicing And Dicing The Past To Get To The Future
Plans to slip a sparkling new 72 story condo tower behind vintage facades spurs debate on the nature of architectural preservation.
Shlock Corridor
The will to kitschy architecture outruns rational planning.
Pod Sweet Pod
A new exhibition asks whether top designers can rescue manufactured housing from the public's disdain.
Too Hip For The Room
10 Chicago architects share their visions for Chicago's future.
Millennium Park -- After The Hype
Millennium Park - it's big, it's pretty; it's wildly popular. Does it make any difference?
City of Costa Mesa
Licking County
Barrett Planning Group LLC
HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research
Mpact Transit + Community
HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research
Tufts University, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy & Planning
City of Universal City TX
ULI Northwest Arkansas
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