Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: a wall-less pavilion with a rooftop viewing platform has been named the winner of the Chicago Architecture Biennial's competition to design a lakefront kiosk. More
Floor-to-ceiling glazing permits views across rooms and into the garage of this renovated Chicago office, where the owner's limited-edition Porsche is parked (+ slideshow). More
Chicago is expected to be named as the location for the Obama presidential library next week, with David Adjaye tipped to be the project's architect. More
Architecture firm Studio Gang has unveiled its latest design for a 348-metre-high Chicago skyscraper made up of three towers with zigzagging profiles. More
News: Frank Gehry has written an open letter defending the design for the George Lucas Museum by Chinese architecture firm MAD, as a legal wrangle threatens to delay the project. More
News: Beijing firm MAD has unveiled the initial design for an art museum on Chicago's lakefront, which will house the collection of American film director George Lucas. More
Brutalism: the design for the clover-shaped tower of Bertrand Goldberg's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago was enabled by the pioneering application of one of the earliest three-dimensional modelling programmes. With its curving form, Goldberg made a clear break away from the grid formations favoured in Modernist architecture. More
News: American film director George Lucas has appointed Beijing firm MAD and Chicago-based Studio Gang Architects to design his proposed art museum on Chicago's lakefront. More
News: cracked protective coating on the Willis Tower's glass viewing deck, 410 metres above ground level, leads to temporary closure. More
Chicago firm Studio Gang Architects has completed a boathouse on the northern bank of the Chicago River with a rhythmic roofline intended to capture the alternating motions of a rower's arm movements (+ slideshow). More
News: the owners of an observation deck on the 94th storey of Chicago's John Hancock Center are considering adding a glass box into which visitors would be strapped and tilted forward to experience a bird's eye view of the city below. More
Motion graphics designer Al Boardman celebrates five Chicago skyscrapers in this short animation. More
Dezeen Wire: 11 design teams including OMA, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid, Grimshaw Architects and HOK have been shortlisted in a competition to redesign the public spaces at Chicago's Navy Pier development. More
Chicago office Krueck & Sexton have completed the restoration of two apartment towers in Chicago by German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. More
Hong Kong architects Cheungvogl have designed a research studio on stilts for Chicago, Illinois More
Here are photos of Zaha Hadid Architects' Burnham Pavilion, which opened recently in Millennium Park in Chicago. More
Santiago Calatrava has unveiled new designs for the Chicago Spire - a 150-storey condiminum tower proposed for Lake Shore Drive (via Archidose). More