St. Regis Chicago from McClurg Court.

Back from Ireland, where they know how to make stone walls sing.

A peek at the Thompson Center’s new curtain wall.

An insightful column by Edward Keegan connects the childhood home and church of the new pope to the ordinary architecture that Chicago does so well—Chicago Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/18/c...

How the new Pope Leo XIV's childhood church in Chicago fell into disrepair — and what may lie ahead—Chicago Tribune www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/10/p...

Congratulations, Alexandra Lange!

A little-known architect, now mayor of Arlington Heights, will lead the effort to lure the Chicago Bears to the site of the former Arlington Park racetrack. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/04/c...

Eternity in lacy concrete: Baha’i Temple, Wilmette, Illinois.

With security barriers and ticketed events, Millennium Park is failing to live up to its identity as a great public space Ed Keegan in the Chicago Tribune—https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/03/column-millennium-park-chicago-keegan/

RIP to a great spiritual leader, Pope Francis, who paid laudable attention to the built and natural environments, preaching the virtues of equity and humanity in urban design. My column about his encyclical on our ‘common home’: www.chicagotribune.com/2015/06/19/p...

Edward Keegan in Chicago Tribune on Eero Saarinen’s glorious, and “particularly strange,” Miller House in Columbus, Indiana www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/20/e...

Vulgarian at the gates.

A passionate, piercingly articulate Edward Keegan column in the Chicago Tribune bemoans changes to, and around, Wrigley Field. He sees these changes as representative of soulless new construction all around Chicago. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/06/c...

1/2 Chicago’s architectural journalism keeps getting stronger. The latest addition is a new monthly architectural history column, by Susan Benjamin and Robert Sideman, in The Record, a non-profit…https://www.therecordnorthshore.org/2025/04/04/history-by-design-from-spanish-court-to-plaza-del-lago/

An example of sophisticated affordable housing in Logan Square: Edward Keegan’s latest architecture column in the Chicago Tribune. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/23/c...

1/2 Amid the sad Sun-Times buyouts, there’s a piece of good news: Lee Bey will become the full-time architecture critic for the newspaper. Lee announced this news on his Facebook page. This will be the first time in 4 years that a Chicago paper has had a full-time architecture critic…

For an excellent demonstration of why architecture criticism matters, read Edward Keegan’s Chicago Tribune column on the future of the former South Works steel plant on Chicago’s Far South Side. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/c...

A fine morning to see Millennium Park and the Bean from an elevated perch (aka, the dentist’s office).

New curtain wall starting to appear at the Thompson Center/Google office.

My favorite new bumper sticker

Great to see Chicagoans taking to our Federal Center plaza to protest Musk Madness.

Edward Keegan’s latest architecture critique in the Chicago Tribune: Shedd Aquarium’s new renovations honor the original building. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/23/c...

Excited for today’s screening of “Out of the Picture,” a documentary about arts critics navigating these tumultuous times in media. The film, directed by my esteemed colleague Mary Louise Schumacher, is being shown at MCA Chicago at 11 am. visit.mcachicago.org/events/scree...