This blog post was authored by architect and structural engineer Charles F. Bloszies FAIA, SE, LEED. The skyscraper is architecture’s ultimate icon. The term itself conjures images of seemingly ...

“A drawing should be a key to the understanding of architecture – what is there to like or dislike, where do architects’ ideas come from, how do these ideas make it to paper, and what is important in ...

Louis H Sullivan, popularly known and celebrated as the 'Father of Skyscrapers', was an American architect whose visionary work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries redefined the very idea of ...

So many historic Chicago office buildings have been converted into boutique hotels lately, saving buildings of great character from the scrap heap, that this trend threatens to become routine. But the ...