Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman appears on WTTW's "Chicago Tonight" this evening, Monday, Feb. 13. The program will broadcast at 7 p.m. ...

Cicero, infamous for its history of corruption, and Jeanne Gang, famous for her futuristic buildings, would seem an unlikely pair. But something unexpected has brought them together: America's foreclosure crisis.On a recent morning, Gang (left) drove her gray Toyota Prius past the town's sturdy but overcrowded brick bungalows and envisioned something different: a high-rise resembling a Rubik's C ...

From today's print edition By Kate Thayer Tribune reporter As an architecture buff and lifelong resident of the Clearing neighborhood, Barbara Schreiber passes the corner of 63rd Street and Central Avenue and doesn't see a dangerous building — she sees a historic neighborhood artifact. But she's worried she won't see it much longer. Schreiber and others in the neighborhood have started a cam ...

Here's a letter from Ron Burke, executive director of the Active Transportation Alliance, to Navy Pier's board: ...

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From Sunday's print edition At their best, design competitions are a lot like opening your window on a breezy spring day. They let ideas flow, freeing us from concepts that have grown stale. And so it was last Tuesday and Wednesday nights when five design teams from Chicago and around the world presented their plans for redesigning Navy Pier's public spaces to packed houses in the theater of the Mus ...

As predicted here last week, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks today recommended long-overdue landmark status for the Wrigley Building. Tribune reporter Naomi Nix has the story, including the great news that the new owners plan to remove the awful, recently-installed metal and glass facade that faces the plaza between the two towers at 400 and 410 N. Michigan Ave. They plan to replace it with terra cotta. ...

The proposed redesigns of Navy Pier's public spaces go on display today at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Ave. The exhibition, which includes drawings and ...

Some architects swear by Stanley Tigerman. Others, especially those who’ve been wounded by Tigerman’s biting criticisms, prefer to swear at him. In a disarmingly honest moment, the 81-year-old Chicago design maven tells a film interviewer: “There’ll be a lot of people, when I pass away, that’ll say, ‘He’s gone. Thank God!’ “Part of it,” he explains, “is calling it like it is.” Moments and insights like thes ...

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Some readers are asking whether they can get into tonight's and tomorrow night's Navy Pier redesign presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Pier officials tell me that the MCA's ...

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From Sunday's print edition The Chicago Park District buried the real news when it unveiled some promising but imperfect sketches last week for the nearly 20-acre chunk of Grant Park known as Daley Bicentennial Plaza. The plans ditch an idea that the district and former Mayor Richard M. Daley once supported--ramming a mostly-underground children’s museum into Grant Park’s northeast corner (left). It’s g ...