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News: 8 events to visit at this year's Chicago Architecture Biennial

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The Chicago Architecture Biennial returned this month to the Windy City. A full slate of activities is taking place across Chicago from now until mid-February, including multiple exhibitions, tours, panel discussions, film screenings, product demonstrations, workshops, and celebrations. Sites as varied as the James R.

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Why Are These Sleek Shelving Systems From the ’60s Suddenly Everywhere?

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The piece—a variation of the about six-foot tall R2 unit—is a green étagère highlighting and hiding art books about Ferrari, New Order shirts, rare coffee batches from Montreal and the like. Consider the Swiss Institute’s all-Haller library , at once overpowering and inspiring.) Next to the mud, it’s the shop’s centerpiece.

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Architect Can Vu Bui’s Few Days in Paris Filled With Brutalist-Style Buildings and Asian Eateries

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They have always been a fascinating city phenomenon to me," says the principal at Office of Things (a New York-, Chicago-, and Charlottesville-based studio whose work we love ). Day 1: Walk through Les Olympiades and eat pho at a local institution Les Olympiades is a district of residential towers in Paris’s 13th arrondissement.

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You should say 'Yes' more often | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

This last week I was in Chicago for the American Institute of Architects National Convention – I arrived around 1:00am Wednesday morning (my first seminar was 6 hours later) and I left Sunday at 9:00am to drive to northern Wisconsin to meet with some new clients. I love it … but I kind of hate as well. I love this house.