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Landscape Architecture Magazine
It is just after 8:00 a.m. on an unseasonably warm day in April with the kind of overcast muggy weather that ratchets up into a scorching midday sun.
MICHIGAN AVENUE MAGAZINE
It’s an unseasonably warm spring day at Millennium Park. At the Crown Fountain, a group of boisterous teenage boys pick up one of their own by all four limbs and carry him into the shallow water. Backlit by one of the fountain’s massive glowing towers, the boy surfs on his backside, letting out a gleeful cry, as the group races to the opposite side. Nearby, couples lounge in the grass at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion, while families and individuals cluster on a wooden boardwalk, some with their bare feet in a creek in the Lurie Garden. Even as a storm approaches, a security guard has a hard time convincing people to leave as they take selfies in front of the Bean…
Cover story about the 10th Anniversary of Millennium Park which included exclusive interviews with Frank Gehry, Anish Kapor and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Michigan Avenue Magazine
Lounging in his West Loop office, Raaja Nemani is the picture of casual cool: a backward baseball cap, V-neck T-shirt, and half-buttoned plaid shirt. He’s a former investment banker and private equity investor who once worked in Abu Dhabi, but he doesn’t look the part. Laughs Nemani, “When people see me, they don’t believe I have a business background.”
ST. LOUIS MAGAZINE
Landscape Architecture Magazine
Hardly anyone outside the state realizes there are more than 1,000 miles of glacial trail in Wisconsin. For more than 60 years, conservationists, landscape architects, and politicians have tried to get a trail built to highlight Wisconsin’s stunning glacial features, and unless something changes drastically, it is still decades away from completion. Despite their best efforts and a spike in hiking during the pandemic, the Ice Age National Scenic Trail remains little known.
The Art of Architecture/The Politics of the Awards
Chicago Architect Magazine
Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize vividly remembers the phone call
she made to Alejandro Aravena telling him the eight-person jury had selected him as the 2016 prizewinner. “He literally could not speak,” Thorne said. “The first thing he said to me was ‘Martha, don’t joke about these things.’ I said ‘But I’m not.’”
The Making of Chicago's Moholy-Nagy
CHICAGO ARCHITECT MAGAZINE
Sumner M. Fineberg, a 94-year-old World War II veteran, remembers the first time he arrived in Chicago at what was then called the Institute of Design, after just having finished serving in the U.S. Army infantry in October 1945. After spending months writing the school asking them to delay his acceptance, it was László Moholy-Nagy who greeted him at the school’s front door.
There’s a reason The New American Home is always one of the biggest attractions to the International Builders’ Show. This year’s show in Las Vegas was no exception.