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Painting a New Architecture

MLL Atelier

Painting by Maria Lorena Lehman: © All rights reserved. “My paintings inform, as they take form.” — Maria Lorena Lehman. By using the process of art creation, I am able to see more deeply into environmental design. Art is my way of bridging between disciplines, and it is also its own discipline that brings forth a wonderful lens by which to explore architecture and its most critical principles and philosophies.

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Top 10 Picks for Open House Chicago 2021

Chicago Architecture

With Chicago’s COVID positivity rate at about the same potency as three-two beer, you may be thinking about zipping off your Tyvek suit and sniffing around a perfect Autumn weekend in Chicago. If so, we recommend grabbing a pumpkin spice whatever and downloading the app for Open House Chicago 2021 ( Apple | Android ). These are our picks for this annual architecture festival.

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Insulating Glass – Problems and Prevention

Westeck News

Courtesy of WINDOW+DOOR. INSULATING GLASS: PROBLEMS AND PREVENTION. Understanding what material and fabrication steps lead to IG failure can help prevent problems. The most obvious indication of failure of an installed insulating glass (IG) unit in a window or door is permanent visual obstruction due to a milky-white fog or film on the interior surfaces of the glass (surface numbers two or three in dual-pane IG) due to moisture or chemical deposition.

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