by Sophia Conforti | Jun 3, 2021 | News
Every Thursday the Sixtysix newsletter delivers the latest creative news, designs, and insights straight to your inbox. Here are this week’s highlights. Not on the email list? Subscribe now. *** Nikola Olic uses photography to bridge the divide between architecture...
by Chris Force | Apr 26, 2021 | Places
I walked over a 4-foot snowbank and threw a leg into a 2020 Lincoln Aviator Reserve. The press wranglers had just dropped it off, and I had a week to kill and another chunk of Chicago winter to escape. I decided to head to Sarasota, Florida—one of the warmest cities...
by Cat Nelson | Apr 25, 2021 | Work
“There’s nothing usual about a usual day,” Rossana Hu tells me. I’ve asked her to run me through her routine, but from what I can gather, the only typical thing about a day for the cofounders of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office is there’s barely a moment to...
by Stephen Gossett | Feb 5, 2020 | Work
I first encountered Tatiana Bilbao’s work in person in 2015, when she exhibited her now much-acclaimed flexible prototype for social housing at the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The house can be built for as little as $8,000, but its modular design guarantees true...
by Zoe Sessums | May 30, 2019 | Work
In the back corner of a large building in Dumbo, bars and shops at the base and a maze of offices and studios throughout, I find my way to an assembly of colorful, thin, planar elements: creatures, structures, surfaces. This is the space of Marc Fornes, architect and...
by Leanne Wong | May 28, 2019 | Work
“We have many great, international-standard architects in China, but talking rights still go to Western architects.” It’s a bold statement, and one made by a particularly unassuming figure. Dressed casually in a worn-in cardigan and flat cap, Beijing-based architect...
by Chris Force | Jan 18, 2019 | Products
Quick. What do a biker cap, Gucci wallpaper, and architectural chocolate have in common? Not much, to be honest, aside from the fact that we’re fond of them all. We quickly rounded up six recommended faves that recently hit our radar—a few guilty pleasures and some...
by Matt Kulling | Aug 7, 2017 | News
The Chicago Architectural Foundation (CAF) is launching a Kickstarter-funded graphic novel that follows the neighborhood adventures of teens in the past, present and future in creating the spaces they want through architecture and urban planning. The graphic novel,...
by Matt Kulling | Aug 1, 2017 | News
The annual EyeEm Awards showcase the best photography from unknown and up-and-coming stars in diverse categories, and the finalists for the architecture category for 2017 focus on making structures look abstract and stunning. Most of the finalists chose to hone in on...
by Sophia Conforti | Jan 20, 2022 | Places
Walk through any residential neighborhood in Athens, and you’ll likely find yourself in a maze of polykatoikia. These three-story concrete apartment buildings were popularized in the 1950s and have since become a hallmark of Greek architecture, a modern structure to...
by Tag Christof | Jan 13, 2022 | Places
A good road trip is rarely measured in miles. The sum of the experience is, rather, those things you feel as you run your finger slowly across the landscape: the state lines, the little landmarks, the improbable strangers, and serendipitous sightings. I measure mine...
by Sophia Conforti | Dec 21, 2021 | Work
The first thing Leyden Lewis tells me one sleepy morning is, “I’m sorry.” It’s 9am for the Brooklyn-based interior designer and artist, and although it’s a reasonable 8am for me in Chicago, he thought I was in California, speaking with him at an all-too-early 6am. I...
