Weaving through the heart of Chicago's central business district The Riverwalk, which completed in 2016 and is designed by Ross Barney Architects, is a public landscaping project that has changed the social life of the city. Photography: Kate Joyce Studios

芝加哥在国际建筑地图上占有重要地位，因为它在现代主义的发展和办公摩天大楼的发明中起着举足轻重的作用，它改变了全球城市的地平线。在最近的2009次衰退之后，风城已经出现了新的建筑热潮，大量的高楼正在开工（目前超过50条正在建设中）。

虽然这些项目中有许多是实用的，而不是杰出的，但芝加哥在建筑素养、创新以及结构和设计的独创性方面仍然比其他许多项目更出色。值得注意的例子包括150 N河畔令人垂头丧气的底部和640个北井的底部和顶部的优美椭圆，这两个大型商业项目都享有突出的滨河位置。

芝加哥河虽然长期被忽视，甚至积极回避，但它继续逐渐回归到城市的生活中。最近完成了1.5英里的河道项目，当地居民和游客蜂拥而至，在重新设计的河边小径和广场上散步、慢跑和花时间。在过去的几年里，其他令人印象深刻的城市公共设施的启用，例如606高架自行车道(芝加哥的2.7英里时髦的高线，它既受到人们的喜爱，也因其对芝加哥西北侧房地产价格的影响而受到批评)，以及一系列连接芝加哥西北边的迷人而曲折的人行天桥(有些尚未完工)。附近的布朗兹维尔，城市最受欢迎的湖滨和推广使用自行车。

珍妮·刚的城市海德公园公寓楼于2015年竣工，打破了芝加哥街区的传统风格。画室刚将于2019年完成即将到来的Vista塔。摄影：

在住宅方面，所有的目光都集中在珍妮·刚即将推出的位于湖滨东部的超高层Vista塔(完工日期为2019年)。这位才华横溢的芝加哥建筑师有设计建筑的诀窍，这些建筑在视觉上很有趣，在结构上很有表现力，对于一座高楼大厦来说，听起来也很奇怪。虽然她最近完成的14层城市海德公园公寓楼的规模完全不同，但它也为公寓楼的类型增添了一种受欢迎的创新精神；这种独特的结构解决方案不仅创造出充满梯形形状的有魅力的正面，而且还创造了海湾、遮阳和阳台，旨在加强居民之间的互动。

这是一个事实，并不广为人知的芝加哥(城市外)，它的戏剧场景是仅次于纽约的，是一个温床的演员测试他们的勇气在舞台上！因此，世界上最具开拓性的剧场空间之一应该在这里开放，这是有道理的。芝加哥莎士比亚剧院场剧院于2017年年底开业，是有史以来最灵活的剧院之一。更多关于这一点，以及下面的其他内容。

Washington Wabash CTA station, 2017, EXP A major transit hub that replaces two previously existing stops – and the first new Loop elevated stop in 20 years – the Washington Wabash project uses recycled structural materials and features an undulating reptilian canopy that protects users from the elements and was created by using steel ribs of different lengths and angles. LED lights at the tip of the roof’s ribs emphasise this curvature even further. Photography: James Steinkamp Photography  

The Riverwalk, 2016, Ross Barney Architects The third phase of this 15-year-long riverside revitalisation project aimed to ‘return the river to Chicago and return Chicagoans to the river’ and completed at the end of 2016. The 1.5 mile long riverwalk is composed of a series of dynamic walkways with stainless steel canopies under bridges and six landscaped public spaces or ‘conceptual outdoor rooms’ that allow people to interact with the waterfront in different ways, from the educational and ecological to the recreational and commercial.

The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, 2017, Charcoalblue and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture The Chicago Shakespeare Theater company unveiled its third venue on the city’s iconic Navy Pier, a repurposed tented stage transformed into a pioneering and ultra-flexible indoor theatre featuring nine mobile audience seating towers and offering at least 12 possible configurations. The new space is linked to the old one by a two-storey wavy glass lobby that can be made more or less reflective and plays with the very theatrical notion of who’s viewing whom.

150 N Riverside, 2017, architects: Goettsch Partners, engineers: Magnusson Klemencic Associates After sitting vacant for decades the thin ribbon of land at 150 N Riverside now features this striking 54-storey office tower wedged between the Chicago River to the east, rail lines to the west and two viaducts to the north and south. The tower responds with a core-supported structure and impressive cantilever on either side of the base. Because of the comparatively small footprint of the building the project features a riverwalk and a 1.5 acre public park as well. LEED Gold certified.

640 North Wells, 2017, Hartshorne Plunkard Architects This 23-storey residential high rise in the trendy River North district features a three-level residential lobby, 251 units and a panoramic rooftop pool. Aside from LEED Silver-certification one of the other most interesting things about this building is the way it avoids being a flat box by featuring a shift in floor plate every two to three floors and balconies. A knock-on effect of this welcome flight of design fancy is that many of the units feature outdoor balcony space as a result. Photography: Nick Fochtman

City Hyde Park apartments, 2015, architects: Studio Gang, engineers: Magnusson Klemencic Associates With its patterned grid of bays on the north façade and cantilevered balconies on the south façade designed to promote social interaction this 14-storey project attempts to reinvent the monotony of the city apartment building, and does so for a relatively modest budget of US$119m. Its angular zig zagging design expresses its structure of stacked concrete panels that replaces conventional columns and allows for greater spans between columns inside.

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 2017, project team: HDR and Gensler in association with Clive Wilkinson Architects and EGG Office A pioneering 27-storey research hospital where doctors, scientists and patients with brain and spinal injuries and nerve, muscle and bone diseases work together in the same space. With a taut glass façade that features a series of folds or pleats on the northern facade (a metaphor for the disruption in one’s life represented by these illnesses) and thoughtful uplifting graphics in the different labs and the entrance overhang (designed so that people coming in ambulances get to enjoy the view too), this is a rehab facility with a difference. Photography: Michael Moran

41st Street and 43rd Street bridges, 2018 and 2019, architects: Cordogan Clark & Associates, engineers: AECOM These two sleek and elegant pedestrian bridges linking Bronzeville to the lakefront are smaller projects that will have a major impact on the local community. The first is a brand new crossing and completes this year, the second replaces an ageing bridge and opens at the end of 2019; both will feature double-curved arch mono-trusses and curved snaking forms that bring to mind the undulating pathways of Chicago’s early parks designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

41st Street and 43rd Street bridges, 2018 and 2019, architects: Cordogan Clark & Associates, engineers: AECOM A dramatic S-shaped suspension bridge for pedestrians and cyclists designed by structural engineer John Hillman links the same neighbourhood at 35th Street to the lake and completed in November 2017.

River Point Chicago, 2016, architects: Pickard Chilton, structural engineers: Magnusson Klemencic Associates A 52-storey 1,050,000sq ft office tower located at the confluence of the Chicago River’s north, south and main branches is the first such major project downtown in seven years. In addition to its prominent riverfront site, it is notable and distinctive for the parabolic arch at its base (echoed in a shallower one at the top) that is both visually alluring and necessary in order to avoid neighbouring train tracks and fit in the wedge-shaped site.

keywords:Chicago architecture, Residential architecture

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