Aurora

Known for his in­te­gra­tion of mo­der­nist de­sign and so­phis­ti­ca­ted en­gi­nee­ring in buil­dings, Mr. Gra­ham played a role in chan­ging Chicago’s sky­line.

With its ripp­ling fa­cade and vast green roof, Chicago's Aqua Tower is a reve­la­tion. It's also the tal­lest buil­ding in the world to be de­si­gned by a woman

The first rose above Chi­cago in 1893. Now every status-conscious city, from Bei­jing to Bagh­dad, eit­her has or wants one. What's the big attrac­tion of the fer­ris wheel? And can they keep on get­ting hig­her?

At the end of Sep­tem­ber the Chi­cago Athen­aeum Mu­seum of Ar­chi­tec­ture and De­sign, Me­tro­po­li­tan Arts Press Ltd. and The Eu­ro­pean Cen­ter for Ar­chi­tec­ture Art De­sign and Urban Stu­dies an­noun­ced the win­ners of this year’s In­ter­na…

The Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects, AIA named its 10 re­ci­pi­ents of the 2008 Young Ar­chi­tects Award. The list of names, along with short bio­gra­phies were an­noun­ced at the end of Ja­nu­ary 2008. The bes­to­wal will take place at the AI…

On Sep­tem­ber 29-30 the IIT (Il­li­nois In­sti­tute of Tech­no­logy) hosted a two-day con­fe­rence de­vo­ted to in­no­va­tion in wa­ter­front and brown­field de­ve­lop­ment, and to as­so­cia­ted ar­chi­tec­ture, de­sign and sustainable po­licy de­ve…

Content is an ex­hi­bi­tion about Rem Kool­haas and, more pre­cisely, by Rem Kool­haas, as is often the case with ex­hi­bi­ti­ons de­vo­ted to li­ving ar­chi­tects. The vi­si­tor is of­fe­red a glim­pse in­side the architect's of­fice. How do OMA pro…

OMA re­cei­ved the com­mis­sion after win­ning an in­ter­na­tio­nal de­sign com­pe­ti­tion in 1998. An im­portant ele­ment of the de­sign, and the re­a­son it was pro­bably cho­sen, is the 150-metre-long, stainless-steel, sound­proof tube that en­cir…

Peter Greenaway (1942) is best known for such films as The Belly of an Ar­chi­tect, Drow­ning by Num­bers, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and Pil­low Book. In ad­di­tion, he has worked on ope­ras, he wrote the li­bretto for Wri­ting to …