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Civic Building focuses on the structures where public life is administered, represented, archived, or ceremonially staged.
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The first Carnegie library to open in the United States has returned as Carnegie One, with a renovation that reconnects reading, making, performance, and...
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The aquarium’s distinctive interior joins architectural preservation to the continuing work of caring for living collections.
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The Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory shows why preserving a glasshouse requires attention to plants, structure, and the work of maintenance together.
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The clubhouse on Farnsworth Street preserves spaces for making and exhibiting art, along with evidence of how an artistic community organized itself.
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The conversion returns a threatened civic landmark to public service while placing local collections inside one of the city's own preservation stories.
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The decision treats a modern civic building as adaptable public infrastructure while addressing accessibility, security, and meeting-space needs.
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Designed by Marshall & Fox, the Beaux-Arts theater has carried commercial productions, touring shows, DePaul training, and Chicago performance history for more than a...
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Designed by Rudolph G. Wolff and opened in 1927, the Patio pairs a Spanish courtyard-inspired auditorium with a neighborhood commercial frontage in Portage Park.
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The 4,000-plus-seat Rapp & Rapp theater is both a landmark and an unresolved operating challenge at the center of Uptown's historic entertainment district.
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The new cultural complex adds performance rooms and a marquee to Broadway while raising a preservation question about reuse that retained a site and...
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Designed under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon, the former post office later housed the Journal & Topics newspaper and is being cleared for a...
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Once the shopping and organizing hub of Altgeld Gardens, the long-vacant Up Top Building is planned for restoration and expansion by By The Hand...
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