https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AUpQMs1vVMQ/zach-morticehttps://www.bloomberg.com/feeds/static/images/bloomberg_logo_black.pnghttps://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AUpQMs1vVMQ/zach-morticeRSS for NodeTue, 26 Aug 2025 18:08:06 GMThttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-30/downtowns-like-chicago-s-loop-could-stage-a-residential-revivalhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-06-30/downtowns-like-chicago-s-loop-could-stage-a-residential-revivalMon, 30 Jun 2025 14:11:50 GMTTourists in the downtown area of Chicago, Illinois, US, on Sunday, May 26, 2024. The Bureau of Economic Analysis is scheduled to release personal consumption figures on May 31.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-25/chicago-s-national-public-housing-museum-celebrates-an-embattled-ideahttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-25/chicago-s-national-public-housing-museum-celebrates-an-embattled-ideaFri, 25 Apr 2025 12:00:34 GMTThe museum has made its home in a 1938 building that once anchored Jane Addams Homes, a 1,000-unit public housing project that was demolished in the 2000s. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-08/chicago-steel-mill-to-be-reborn-as-9-billion-quantum-computer-campushttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-08/chicago-steel-mill-to-be-reborn-as-9-billion-quantum-computer-campusTue, 08 Apr 2025 13:00:06 GMTThe site for the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park once held a massive steel mill. It’s been vacant for decades. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-01/remembering-m-paul-friedberg-who-made-landscape-architecture-urbanhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-01/remembering-m-paul-friedberg-who-made-landscape-architecture-urbanSat, 01 Mar 2025 13:00:11 GMTFriedberg tapped into the rhythm of the city for modernist landscapes such as Peavey Plaza in Minneapolis.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-01/new-book-explores-brutalist-architecture-of-france-s-communist-partyhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-01/new-book-explores-brutalist-architecture-of-france-s-communist-partySat, 01 Feb 2025 13:00:09 GMTThe massive housing blocks of the Arlequin district in Grenoble remain a legacy of the PCF’s postwar urban development program. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-25/-tartarian-empire-conspiracy-theory-enters-us-election-frayhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-25/-tartarian-empire-conspiracy-theory-enters-us-election-frayFri, 25 Oct 2024 12:00:21 GMTThe ornate Hall of Horticulture was built for Buffalo’s Pan-American Exposition in 1901 — or was it? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-24/how-chicago-is-landmarking-the-black-panther-partyhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-02-24/how-chicago-is-landmarking-the-black-panther-partySat, 24 Feb 2024 14:00:13 GMTThe aftermath of a 1969 police raid on Black Panther Party headquarters at 2350 West Madison Street in Chicago. The building has since been demolished, but other significant sites associated with the party have survived. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-09/a-very-meta-2023-chicago-architecture-biennialhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-09/a-very-meta-2023-chicago-architecture-biennialSat, 09 Dec 2023 13:00:16 GMTFoam used by landscape architects serves as a ziggurat-like installation that supports other installations in “This Is a Rehearsal,” a very meta exhibit.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-26/post-pandemic-office-design-emphasizes-calm-comfort-privacyhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-11-26/post-pandemic-office-design-emphasizes-calm-comfort-privacySun, 26 Nov 2023 10:30:01 GMTA room-in-a-room meeting space from the office furnishing firm Spacetor is designed to give workers a bit of privacy and acoustic relief. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-09/what-can-cities-do-with-closed-school-buildingshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-10-09/what-can-cities-do-with-closed-school-buildingsMon, 09 Oct 2023 13:00:12 GMTThe former West Pullman Elementary School in Chicago, built in 1894, has been transformed into senior housing. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-26/landscape-architects-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-landscapershttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-26/landscape-architects-have-a-lot-to-learn-from-landscapersWed, 26 Jul 2023 19:33:59 GMTLandscape architecture students at Ohio State get down and dirty at a summer studio that transforms a vacant lot in Columbus into an urban agriculture site. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-10/the-design-history-of-australia-s-queenslander-homeshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-05-10/the-design-history-of-australia-s-queenslander-homesWed, 10 May 2023 20:12:34 GMTThe Queenslander has uniquely defined the (sub)urbanism of Brisbane, Australia’s third-largest city.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-10/how-trauma-informed-design-can-create-healing-architecturehttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-10/how-trauma-informed-design-can-create-healing-architectureMon, 10 Apr 2023 15:15:50 GMTGRAND JUNCTION, CO - SEPTEMBER, 2020: Photography of a Shopworks Architecture project, "Laurel House " in Grand Junction, CO. in September, 2020. Photo ID #MS2_3235rV2.jpg Photo by Matthew Staver 303-916-6155 mattstaver@hotmail.comhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-18/streaming-service-shelter-offers-a-highbrow-take-on-design-tvhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-18/streaming-service-shelter-offers-a-highbrow-take-on-design-tvSat, 18 Feb 2023 15:47:55 GMTA glass-walled mini-home from “Tiny Spaces Iceland,” available on the streaming service Shelter. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-22/how-to-design-a-safe-space-for-lgbtq-youthhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-22/how-to-design-a-safe-space-for-lgbtq-youthTue, 22 Nov 2022 16:25:53 GMTThe Ruth Ellis Clairmount Center announces its presence with a four-story mural of its namesake. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-19/builders-and-architects-ride-a-renovation-wave-in-ushttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-19/builders-and-architects-ride-a-renovation-wave-in-usWed, 19 Oct 2022 12:00:10 GMTAn Art Deco neighborhood bank on the West Side of Chicago will soon be reborn as the anchor for a new mixed-use development.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-29/with-a-makeover-the-office-tower-tries-to-lure-workers-backhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-29/with-a-makeover-the-office-tower-tries-to-lure-workers-backWed, 29 Jun 2022 12:00:09 GMTThe Willis Tower in Chicago now boasts an outdoor roof garden and a host of other features that aim to make the skyscraper a community gathering place as well as a workplace. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-05/architecture-education-gets-a-radical-makeoverhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-04-05/architecture-education-gets-a-radical-makeoverTue, 05 Apr 2022 12:00:03 GMTStudents at Bard College’s new architecture program display “An Atlas for Housing Justice,” a project for a class called Housing and Collective Care. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-09/how-the-bungalow-brought-chicago-togetherhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-09/how-the-bungalow-brought-chicago-togetherWed, 09 Feb 2022 14:35:25 GMTAbout a third of Chicago’s single-family housing stock consists of bungalows like these, built by the tens of thousands in the early 20th century. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-09/the-second-lives-of-america-s-vacant-prisonshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-09/the-second-lives-of-america-s-vacant-prisonsTue, 09 Nov 2021 13:00:14 GMTCHICAGO, ILLINOIS - APRIL 09: A fence surrounds the Cook County jail complex on April 09, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. With nearly 400 cases of COVID-19 having been diagnosed among the inmates and employees, the jail is nation’s largest-known source of coronavirus infections. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)