Chicago Architecture and Design

A talented team balances historic and modern elements in an 1885 Queen Anne that had been sabotaged in the ’60s.

Carefully placed windows steep this crisp Chicago apartment in the texture of the city.

The Japanese-influenced S. A. Foster House and Stable was designed during the architect’s experimental period in the late 1800s.

A quirky multilevel home in Chicago’s Old Town by pioneering architect Walter Netsch has been sympathetically restored by its new owners.

Vladimir Radutny Architects refines an industrial loft in Chicago, introducing a restrained palette with sculptural accents.

A new book explores how the 1915 Bach House distilled the tenets of Wright’s work into a single, affordable home.

Ideas like urban acupuncture and biofeedback belie the simplicity behind Sweet Water Foundation’s mission—to help folks in blighted neighborhoods reclaim their humanity.

You can choose from a riverfront studio in the famous "Corn Cob Towers" and the former home of Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin.

The couple behind Threadless eschew boring neutrals for more natural light, plants, and vibrant color in their kitchen remodel.

As one of the few remaining Wright designs with a two-story living room, this century-old residence is ready for new owners to reinstate its former glory.

Hot dog heaven is closer than we thought—it's in a Chicago parking lot.

Artistic director of this year’s Chicago Architecture Biennial, Yesomi Umolu is at the center of an energized design capital.

Chicago–based Eifler & Associates Architects leads a painstaking renovation of the rarely published home located in Barrington Hills, Illinois—overseeing everything from a sagging...

In the village of Oak Park next to Chicago’s West Side, Seven Point fights the stigma surrounding cannabis usage with high-end design.

Chicago’s Frederick C. Robie House underwent an expansive $11 million restoration helmed by its preservation steward, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust.

Built in 1892, this newly listed Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in a Chicago suburb has a remarkable history.

Equal parts cafe, bottle shop, and market, this laid-back hangout brightens Chicago’s Ukrainian Village.

Simplicity drives the transformation of a cluttered Chicago loft into a clean and calm home.

Noted Chicago architect Dennis Blair declared this masterful, modernist Schell House his favorite residential work.

Tucked away in a leafy Illinois suburb, this midcentury modern house that takes inspiration from America’s most famous architect is available for the first time.

East meets Midwest at Prairie School, a cocktail haven for architecture buffs that touts a noteworthy beverage program by mixologist Jim Meehan.

Moss Design redevelops a deserted corner store into Logan Certified—a furniture and art gallery, showroom, apartment, and office space—for a newly expanded architecture and design...

A couple budgets carefully while renovating a split-level house on Chicago’s Near North Side.

Tucked in a Chicago suburb, the Courtyard Residence celebrates the outdoors while responding to the needs of each family member.

When Carly and Brad Moeller were searching for a new home in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood of Chicago, they came across a classic split-level house that needed some serious...

A strategic rewire enhances a spec house’s gut renovation.

A gut rehab turns a quixotic old building into a model live-work space near Wicker Park.

Once ashamed of his lackluster Chicago abode, architect Brad Lynch tore it down and started over with a family home that’s part retreat and part public stage.

Take a tour through Chicago’s first passive house, built by Brandon Weiss of Weiss Building and Development LLC with the help of architect Tom Bassett-Dilley.

Chicago bills a one-and-a-half-mile-long stretch of Cermak Road as “the greenest street in America,” a surprising characterization considering it was once one of the grittiest...