While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire safe. Fire-resistive construction gives time to discover a fire, suppress it before it spreads and ...

Four years ago, the Pritzker Prize–winner Tadao Ando spectacularly converted a 1920s apartment building in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago into exhibition spaces for a gallery named—in ...

If, on one hand, this tradition associates architecture with permanence and materiality, contemporary practice has progressively shifted this understanding. Part of this transformation lies in how ...

Saiya, a mixed-use development spanning 605,000 sf, integrates a 23-story concrete building with a 5-over-1 wood-frame structure. The $150 million two-tower project, which broke ground in 2022 and was ...