US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed the 57-storey Salesforce Tower along the Chicago River, marking the final stage of the city's Wolf Point development. The 852-foot-tall (259 metres) office tower joins two residential towers and 2.3 acres of public park space across the 4-acre Wolf Point development, which sits directly at the intersection of the North, South and Eastern branches of the Chicago River. Pelli Clarke & Partners has completed a Salesforce tower in Chicago Formally home to the "city's first commercial settlements" and then an "underutilized" parking lot, the ..read more

American studio Manica Architecture and National Football League team Chicago Bears have unveiled the design of a football stadium along Lake Michigan in Chicago, drawing criticism from preservationists. Manica Architecture designed the multi-purpose recreational campus – featuring a stadium enclosed with a translucent roof – to bring a variety of concerts, community celebrations, and sporting events to the Windy City's downtown, to replace the Bears' current home at Soldier Field. Manica Architecture has designed a stadium for the Chicago Bears "The transformative project will increase publi ..read more

The city of Chicago has announced plans to convert a collection of empty office buildings in the city's downtown into mixed-used and residential towers. The initiative, called LaSalle Street Reimagined, would convert nearly 2.3 million square feet (213,676 square metres) of vacant office buildings into residences and retail in the centre of Chicago, an area known as The Loop. The plan incentivises developers to make the conversions and locally owned businesses through grants to inhabit vacant storefronts, building lobbies and former banking floors – while incorporating housing into the towers ..read more

American developer Related Midwest has resumed construction on the 400 Lake Shore skyscraper in Chicago on a site that has experienced more than a decade's worth of revisions and delays. Construction teams in Chicago have begun work on the foundation for the 72-storey skyscraper designed by SOM. Images show workers filling the giant foundation hole that has been left at the site alongside the Chicago River on Lake Michigan for nearly twenty years. Construction has commenced on a pair of SOM-designed skyscrapers at the ill-fated site of the Chicago Spire The site was originally slated to ..read more

US firm Morris Adjmi Architects has designed a 43-storey residential skyscraper in Chicago with a "deeply expressive" facade that takes cues from the city's industrial past and the work of architect Mies van der Rohe. The 480-foot (146-metre) building is located in Chicago's Fulton Market District – a former meatpacking area that has undergone extensive redevelopment in the past few decades. The Row is a residential tower designed by Morris Adjmi The skyscraper was designed by New York's Morris Adjmi Architects, with interiors overseen by March and White Design (MAWD), which has offices in Lo ..read more

Tech company Google and architecture studio Jahn have released visualisations of the planned revamp of the James R Thompson Center, an iconic postmodern-style building in Chicago's Downtown. The plans for the redesign retain the original rounded form and the 17-storey atrium inside. Its glass curtain wall will change, moving from the slightly darkened patterned glass of the original to a more uniform, sleek look. Located in the core of Downtown Chicago – known as the Loop – the Thompson Center was designed in the 1980s by local architect Helmut Jahn. It housed offices for the Illinois state g ..read more

Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion dedicated to Haitian entrepreneur Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, the first non-Indigenous settler of Chicago, for the city's architecture biennial. Parallel Histories is a pavilion made up of small, temporary structures representing the footprint of DuSable's homestead, on a park that Ross Barney Architects is revamping where the Chicago River meets Lake Michigan. Ross Barney Architects has created a pavilion for the Chicago Architecture Biennial Commissioned for the fifth Chicago Architecture Biennial, the installation is meant to shine a light on ..read more

Two concrete columns hold up a curving concrete roof of this pavilion that architecture firm SOM has built using a method it says could reduce the carbon footprint of high-rise concrete buildings. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has erected the Stereoform Slab for this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial in the city's West Loop. The concrete pavilion is a prototype of a single-storey concrete bay found in high-rise buildings. It is built using a robotic fabrication method, provided by Odico, that the American firm argues is more sustainable than traditional construction methods, and co ..read more

Chicago architect John Ronan has designed a Prairie-style visitor centre to adjoin Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois. The architect designed the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor and Education Center to accompany the property that Wright designed and built for himself in 1889. The Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor and Education Center adjoins Wright's home and studio in Oak Park Called the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, the property now functions as a museum run by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. The trust intends Ronan's addition to bolster the public activities with an extra 2 ..read more

Design firm AvroKO has used eclectic furnishings, abstract artworks and mismatched rugs to make Chief's private members' club in Chicago feel more like a home. Located in the Fulton Market district, the Chicago clubhouse is one of three Chief locations across the US that offer support and networking opportunities for women in executive positions. Chief's corridors (top image) and entrance lobby (above) are painted green all over AvroKO was brought on board to design the interiors for the club, having already helped in the location scouting process for Chief's New York and Los Angeles outposts ..read more