For some, architecture has a unique ability to transpose fantasies into reality. And if you were an urbane heterosexual male in the last half of the 20th century, there weren’t many better fantasy generators than Playboy.

Related Midwest has signed a deal to develop a vacant 62-acre parcel of land linking the city’s South Loop and Chinatown neighborhoods, the Chicago Tribune reports.

An architect works with a sprawling one-of-a-kind lot to create an urban oasis for a family.

A traveling exhibition, now closed, is well documented in a book of the same name.

Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and Roman and Williams convert an athletic club into a hotel, imaginatively combining modern and historic architectural flourishes for an updated approach to play and respite.

By nearly all critical accounts, Chicago’s inaugural Architecture Biennial— North America’s first—was a smash hit.

Mr. Burnham used to trace, to the World's Fair at Chicago the beginning of the American city-planning: His own experiences with that enterprise taught him the lesson that cooperation among artists was absolutely essential in order to produce a really great result.

How do you give civic scale and stature to a mid-rise school in a high-rise context? This was one of the challenges faced by bKL Architecture in designing the new lower school of GEMS World Academy in Chicago.