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上周末，芝加哥推出了美国第一次建筑双年展，延续了今年余下的时间，展示了100多名全球设计师的艺术和理念。

对于一个传奇建筑大都会来说，这一事件已经到了一个完美的时刻，这个城市正经历着几十年来没有出现过的规模的重生。令人痛苦的是，在经济衰退期间，芝加哥出现了一些全国最值得注意的新建筑，城市景观也因雄心勃勃的基础设施改革而发生了重大变化。

这一转变的一部分与时机有关：乔治·卢卡斯(GeorgeLucas)和奥巴马总统(Obama)都刚刚决定将他们的新博物馆建在这里，注入了新的能量和可能性。但在这些声明发布之前，事情就一直在嗡嗡作响，比如拉斐尔·维诺利(Rafael Vinoly)、塞萨尔·佩利(Cesar Pelli)、工作室钢、赫尔穆特·扬(Helmut Jahn)这座城市刚刚完成了重要的新景观，如环上的玛吉·戴利公园和湖畔的北岛。它正在改造河流以供娱乐，建造了606号，一条高耸的、视野丰富的小径，流经城市的大部分地区，它正在改善它的许多公交车站。

芝加哥建筑评论家和城市学家李·比(LeeBey)说，“这里从未听说过的事情现在正在发生。”贝伊不仅指出了经济复苏，还指出公众对雄心勃勃的建筑和城市设计的兴趣越来越大。一个很好的指标是：出席双年展开幕式的人数超过了前一天芝加哥文化基金会。

领先的是相对较新的面孔，其中许多是双年展本身的特色。他们由建筑师珍妮·刚领导，她建造了许多城市最重要的新建筑和景观，并成为世界上最受欢迎的建筑师之一。在她的周围，新的一代正从芝加哥和其他地方涌现出来。例如，她说，在过去的一年里，来自全国各地的申请数量大幅增加。芝加哥退伍军人的工作也在回归，他们的工作规模最近被认为是不可能的。

“这是我第一次听到承包商谈论劳动力短缺或材料短缺，”惠勒·卡恩斯建筑师拉里·卡恩斯说。

尽管早期有迹象表明他可能不会强调设计，但市长拉姆·伊曼纽尔(Rahm Emanuel)正在加紧努力，推进双年展，并在改造该市河流和交通系统的计划中发挥了不可或缺的作用。

两年一度的艺术总监萨拉·赫达(SarahHerda)说，在芝加哥，这是一个令人兴奋的时刻。“这里有一种明显的能量。”她补充说，两年期应有助于这一势头，注入新的想法和人才，并促进就如何向前迈进进行对话。她说，我们有着令人难以置信的建筑遗产，我们想要充满活力的当代建筑。

Its second floor, which cantilevers out to provide sun shading, is enclosed in ETFE foil cushions that can vary the amount of light and heat entering the building through their inflation levels. Completion is set for 2017

The Levi Hall Quad Portal for the University of Chicago was designed by Krueck and Sexton. Photography: Tom Rossiter

Responding to the campus's growth westward, the shifting, glass-enclosed portal is cut through the campus Administration Building Lobby, extending the reach of the East Quadrangle. Photography: Tom Rossiter

El Centro building is a design for the Northeastern Illinois University by Juan Moreno. Photography: Tom Rossiter

Located on the school's new satellite location in Chicago's Avondale neighbourhood, this striking, torqued academic building is composed of a rhythmic, boldly coloured pattern of sunshades, metal panels, and mirrored glass. Photography: Tom Rossiter

The 829-foot skyscraper by Rafael Vinoly at the southeast corner of Michigan Avenue and Roosevelt Road clearly expresses its steel structure, and its large interior modules. It is scheduled to start construction next year, with a 648-unit tower to follow in the following phase

John Ronan is working on 151 North Franklin, a 32-story office high rise in The Loop containing a four-story covered plaza, or "urban room," and a rooftop sky garden.  Completion is set for

Architects Krueck and Sexton are behind the 130 North Franklin tower

This 750-foot-tall West Loop commercial tower will feature column-free floor plates and a folded glass façade reminiscent of the firm's nearby Spertus Institute (which is a lot shorter)

Chinese firm MAD's upcoming building, which will contain George Lucas's quirky collection, ranging from comics to cinematic models, is certainly eye catching

It looks like a couple of snowy mountains have landed next to Lake Michigan. Completion is planned for 2018

Located on a former man-made peninsula covered in concrete, Studio Gang and Smith Group JJR's Northerly Island, a new 91-acre park, includes not just cultural facilities like an amphitheater and boardwalk, but a landscape of wetlands, savannahs, and prairies built to encourage new plants and wildlife to inhabit it

Pushed forward by Mayor Emmanuel, and carried out by a team that includes Sasaki, Ross Barney Architects, and others, the Chicago Riverwalk is a new pedestrian promenade along six blocks between State Street and Lake Street. Each block takes on a different river typology. Photography: Kate Joyce

The Marina Plaza, for instance, includes restaurants and outdoor seating, while The Cove has kayak rentals and docking for watercraft. The first blocks have opened, and final completion is set for next year. Photography: Kate Joyce

Built on the site of the Bloomingdale freight train line, the 606 by Michael Van Valkenberg Associates is a 20-acre raised linear park stretching across the Chicago neighbourhoods of Logan Square, Humboldt Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

The 16-story boutique hotel Godrfey, on the corner of LaSalle and Huron Streets in the Near North, purposely exposes its staggered and shifted steel truss system. Photography: Steve Hall, Hedrick Blessing

Designed by Valerio Dewalt Train, its form is offset three times, allowing for varied rooms and experiences inside, and seeming to defy gravity from outside. Photography: Steve Hall, Hedrick Blessing

Located in the city's newly-developed Lakeshore East neighbourhood, three hotel and residential towers will step down from 93 to 47 stories forming Vista Towers by Studio Gang

Their facades will shift in and out, allowing for varied views and floor plate sizes. Exterior glazing will change in transparency to adjust to these changes. Completion is set for 2019

The Intrinsic Charter School by Wheeler Kearns Architects is located on a former lumber yard on Chicago's Northwest Side. Photography: Steve Hall Hedrick Blessing

The architects reused seventy-five percent of the lumberyard's bowstring truss structures, covered the facades with insulated panels and the roofs with sprayed concrete in a process that Kearns calls 'outsulation'. Photography: Steve Hall Hedrick Blessing

This tapered 950-foot-tall residential and hotel high rise next to the Chicago River is part of a trio of new towers located at the split of the Chicago River; a plan that also calls for a 1,000 foot extension of the Chicago Riverwalk.  Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, Wolf Point South's completion date is still to be determined

Created as a contrast to the formality of its neighbour, Millennium Park, the Maggie Daley Park by Michael Van Valkenberg Associates is a curvilinear, topographically dramatic space. Photography: Alex Maclean and Elizabeth Felicella

It contains both dynamic zones (like an ice skating ribbon and a rock-climbing park) and peaceful, open green space. Photography: Alex Maclean and Elizabeth Felicella

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