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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.

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.

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.

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.

A contest sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the AIA is hoping to make recycling hip in Chicago again.

Rethinking death and the city.

Can urban planning be a means to great architecture?

Plans to slip a sparkling new 72 story condo tower behind vintage facades spurs debate on the nature of architectural preservation.

The will to kitschy architecture outruns rational planning.

A new exhibition asks whether top designers can rescue manufactured housing from the public's disdain.

10 Chicago architects share their visions for Chicago's future.

Millennium Park - it's big, it's pretty; it's wildly popular. Does it make any difference?