Architecture
China continues to lead the world in the construction of skyscrapers.
Dezeen
UIC has laid out a master plan to rework "nearly every corner" of its campus. The goal is to accommodate more students and enhance the school's pride and identity.
Chicago Sun-Times
The first building in Philadelphia to surpass 1,000 feet is now the tenth tallest building in the country. Here's what local media is writing about the Comcast Technology Center.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The HERE app provides new ways to access information about the local arts and architecture scene.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Curbed stays true to form with an annual review of the year in architecture.
Curbed
If accepted as UNESCO World Heritage sites, the eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings would be the first examples of modern architecture in the United States included in that august company.
Curbed
Feature
We crunched the numbers on all the features, blog posts, and news articles we published in 2018 to figure out which made the biggest splash with readers.
Tim Keane says quality design isn’t negotiable and developers need to aim higher.
SaportaReport
With several stipulations, Seattle City Council has signed off on the university's plans for up to 6 million square feet of new construction, including high-rises.
The Seattle Times
The Guardian's list of architecture's best in 2018.
The Guardian
While it's fun to tease about the architectural shortcomings of most newly constructed urban residential buildings in the United States, the causes of its ubiquitous sameness reveals the depths of the country's housing crisis.
Curbed
Blog post
Vertical cities could be much more than monolithic luxury towers, but the idea has its skeptics.
The city didn’t have tall buildings until the 1980s. Then its skyline took off.
The Inquirer / Philly.com
Touring Japan for strange but beautiful buildings.
Architizer
As the investigation continues, cracks found in girders supporting the building do not appear to be due to a design issue.
San Francisco Chronicle
A new tulip-shaped tower designed by Foster + Partners is planned for London. Approval is still pending.
The Architect's Newspaper
Modern zoning practices separated uses, claiming this was a better way to organize American cities. However, the social, cultural, and urban design outcomes drastically changed the world we live in.
Greater Greater Washington
Charles Wolfe calls attention to similarities between contemporary urbanism and yesterday's debunked utopias. The two may differ in substance, but both tend toward a certain level of dogma that isn't necessarily helpful on the ground.
Public Square: A CNU Journal
Developers Related Midwest have new plans for the infamously failed development site, but have so far been stymied by demands from the office of Alderman Brendan Reilly.
Chicago Tribune
Actually, the New York Wheel never started spinning, but now the project is permanently dead so it will never get the chance.
Staten Island Advance
