Adrian Smith, senior Design Partner at Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago, is the 2011 winner of the Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat for his extraordinary contribution to the supertall building typology. …

Three winners and seven Honorable Mentions were recently announced for the 2011 Burnham Prize Competition “McCormick Place REDUX”. Hosted by the Chicago Architectural Club and co-sponsored by the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Landmarks Illinois, this year’s competition…

MAS Studio and the Chicago Architectural Club announced the results of NETWORK RESET, a single-stage international competition that seeks to provide ideas and actions that can reactivate the Boulevard System of Chicago and rethink its potential role in the city. The jury included

A long list of winners of the 2010 GOOD DESIGN Award was recently announced by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles…

Three winners and three honorable mentions have recently been announced for the international ideas competition The Building: Problem or Solution?, sponsored by Faith in Place, a Chicago nonprofit organization. The primary mission of the contest is the development of an array of ideas that will assist congregations…

MINE THE GAP, the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition, has some winners. The competition’s goal was to find innovative solutions to fill the massive hole remaining from the cancellation of the Calatrava-designed Spire Tower along the shores of Lake Michigan …

The Chicago Chapter of Architecture for Humanity announced that the entry “Cut.Join.Play” by Chicago/Barcelona-based firm MAS Studio is the winner of the Street Furniture Competition. The MAS Studio team includes Iker Gil, Andrew Obendorf, Julie Michiels, and Andrew Clark.

A modern menorah, designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (SOM), won ‘Best Menorah’ in Steelcase’s 10th Annual Wreath and Menorah Design Competition and Charity Auction held on December 3, 2009.

Gensler’s winning design, co-created with 4240 Architecture, transforms Chicago’s abandoned Bloomingdale rail line into a three mile long greenhouse and hydrogen generator that provides 10 acres of farm land year round, powers city schools, and creates a beacon for the city.

Studio Gang Architects has earned a PETA Proggy award for using bird-deflecting elements in the 823 ft-Aqua Tower residential building and hotel that’s currently under construction in Chicago.