On Wednesdays, we wear pink. 💅 Also Fridays. 😉 https://bit.ly/3WpHh3m 📸: Edgewater Beach Apartments, Architect: Marshall & Fox, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers #Chicago #architecture #OHC2025 #OpenHouseChicago #EdgewaterBeach #MeanGirlsDay

Heading to the Chicago Marathon 🏃‍♂️? Whether you're running or cheering on the athletes 📣 , take a moment to take in the city. Here are a few buildings you'll see along the route. #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagomarathon #marathon #bankofamerica #Chicagohistory #historicChicago

🎉 Congrats to the National Public Housing Museum on winning the 2025 Driehaus Award for Adaptive Reuse AND the Driehaus Legacy Award! Their transformation of the last Jane Addams Homes into a civic & cultural destination honors history + imagines a more equitable future. https://bit.ly/4mJ8DMK

😎 It’s official: Avondale is 1 of the world’s coolest neighborhoods (#1 in the U.S.). See why during Open House Chicago at 🎳 Avondale Bowl 🚂 Diversey House 🎵 Electrical Audio 🍻 Lake Effect Brewing 🥃 Judson & Moore Distillery. #allfortheloveofChicago #OHC2025 #Chicago #Avondale https://bit.ly/4nTW5Do

🏗️ Before steel frames, 🧱 load-bearing walls held buildings up. The Monadnock shows both: massive brick walls on the north, steel frame on the south. A true milestone in Chicago architecture. 📸 Monadnock Building (Burnham & Root) #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago https://bit.ly/4gFh5ex

🎉 NEW FOR #OHC2025! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation to this year’s #OpenHouseChicago lineup. Once the shuttered Emmet Elementary, this building now empowers the Austin community thru high-level workforce training & community-driven reuse. https://bit.ly/480tDee

☀️🍂 The fall equinox doesn’t just mark the change of seasons, it also brings Chicagohenge, one of the city's best times to shine. ☀️🍂 📸: @nick.sinnott via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagohenge #FallEquinox

📸 What a great turnout for Intro to Architectural Photography! Participants learned framing, lighting, and composition at the CAC studio, then hit the streets to put those skills into practice. Want to stay in the know about upcoming programs? Sign up for the CAC newsletter https://bit.ly/4dUy8qu

😮 30 NEW sites are opening their doors for Open House Chicago 2025! From Chinatown to Edgewater & the Near West Side to Downtown, these sites are set to bring more magic to the city's largest architecture festival. 🪄 https://bit.ly/4nBbo3r 📷: Chicago Magic Lounge, Architect: Morris Architect

🇵🇷🇲🇽 From vibrant murals to proud traditions, our tours of the #Pilsen neighborhood & the landscape of #HumboldtPark are a perfect way to honor #HispanicHeritageMonth. https://bit.ly/4nzZuH4 📸: Hector Duarte's Studio, Photo: Eric Allix Rogers #allfortheloveofChicago

190 South LaSalle blends in below and makes a Postmodern statement above. Why is this building topped with a dramatic green gable? https://bit.ly/41WTa4m 📸: 190 South LaSalle, Architect: Phillip Johnson and John Burgee, Photo: Eric Allix Rogers #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago

🔎 Go beyond the skyline. CAC’s building tours spotlight: 📰 Rookery: 1893 library + atrium 🏗️ Inland Steel: mid-century icon 🪑 Merchandise Mart: once the largest building 🏙️ Willis Tower: Chicago's tallest building architecture.org/city-tours #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago

Is there some place you’d like to revisit that no longer exists? The Disappointed Tourist by Ellen Harvey opens 9/29 at the CAC. This exhibition features art of lost spaces & the stories of why they mattered. https://bit.ly/41XcKNH #allfortheloveofchicago #chicago #architecture #lostchicago

Well, look at this all you architecture and history lovers! 💗 The #1 proposal spot in the world has just been named...and it is a major part of Chicago's architectural history. 💍 💞 https://bit.ly/3Ij0Dnp #fortheloveofchicago #Chicago #proposals 📸: Courtesy CC/Wiki Commons/Steven Kevil

🏙️ What's the Willis Tower's secret weapon? Bundled tube construction. 💪 🔗 Learn more about this engineering technique: https://bit.ly/46jZELI #Chicago #architecture #fortheloveofChicago #WillisTower #SearsTower 📸: Soakologist via Wikimedia

✨ THIS. WILL. SELL. OUT. ✨ 🌉 Learn about Chicago bridges DURING an iconic bridge lift? Sounds like a perfect morning. Join us. October 15, 8:30 a.m. 🎟️ Link in bio. https://bit.ly/47ZKWwb #Chicago #fortheloveofChicago #architecture #bridgelift #Chicagobridges

The Chicago Architecture Biennial is back! From 9/19-2/28 SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change features projects exploring housing, ecology & innovation to show architecture's role in our future. Join us at CAC on 9/18 for a free event. https://bit.ly/4mUHRBU 📸: JAG Studio

🙌 Join the team that makes Chicago’s biggest architecture festival possible! As an OHC volunteer, you’ll help visitors experience the magic of #OHC2025 at one of more than 200 sites. And you’ll receive volunteer benefits including an 🎟️ OHC Priority Access Pass & event tshirt! 👕https://bit.ly/3B2R8ow

🎂 Today is Daniel Burnham's birthday! Learn more about Burnham: https://bit.ly/4lY53he #Chicago #architecture #DanielBurnham #1893WorldsFair #historicChicago #Chicagohistory

Looking for a ✨new✨ way to explore Chicago? Check out these upcoming tour departures. For tickets and information on these and all CAC tours, visit the link in bio. https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz

What happens when the city that knows architecture best gets to 🗳️vote? The Lerch Bates People's Choice Awards! This honor celebrates new buildings that Chicagoans love most, from finalists chosen by CAC volunteers. Now it's your turn to pick your favorites! Vote by 9/12 https://bit.ly/47rOQxw

This Labor Day, we look back to Pullman where the 1894 Pullman Strike forever changed American labor rights. 🇺🇸✊ The impacts of the Pullman Strike were national in scope. As a massive and truly national strike, it demonstrated the power of national labor. Learn more https://bit.ly/46cZtmB

Ok, now everyone is just showing off. 💅 Loving this beautiful capture. 📸: @rabbit_hole_adventure via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #CarbideandCarbon #StRegis #cityphotography #cityphotographers #Chicagophotographers

🎶 It's Jazz Fest time in Chicago! 🎶 DYK Uptown's historic Green Mill originated in the 1890's as Pop Morse's Roadhouse? The club rebranded around 1914 as Green Mill Gardens, taking inspiration from Paris’s Moulin Rouge (French for "Red Mill"). Learn more https://bit.ly/4mxa7KK

In architecture, cornices serve both decorative & practical purposes; they add visual interest & can help direct water away from the building's facade, preventing erosion & damage. https://bit.ly/46bb71j 📸: Marquette Building Architect: Holabird & Roche #Chicago #architecture #architecturedictionary

What inspires one of Chicago’s leading architects? Join us for Architect Talks: John Ronan as CAC President & CEO Eleanor Gorski joins John in conversation about his firm’s design approach, studio culture & vital practice. 9/9 6-7:15 pm https://bit.ly/4oYdsV0 📸: CPD HQ Courtesy John Ronan Architects

🚧 Have you seen the plans to turn a century-old CTA station into a glass-covered “gateway to Downtown”? Construction prep started this week. From BlockClub Chicago: State and Lake CTA Station getting $440 million overhaul with glass roof, elevators to red line. https://bit.ly/3UPZXbY 📸: CDOT

‼️ Closing soon: Constructing Hope: Ukraine. This exhibition showcases grassroots design initiatives that provide support & long-term visions for rebuilding Ukraine. See it at the CAC thru 9/1 https://bit.ly/41OhqV8 📸: Courtesy of Repair Together. Oleksiy Ushakov/UNDP Ukraine

📣 👀 Big reveal coming soon...the neighborhoods for Open House Chicago 2025 are about to be announced! 😮 Sign up for our newsletter to be the first in the know! https://bit.ly/4dUy8qu #Chicago #architecture #OpenHouseChicago #OHC2025 #Chicagohistory #historicChicago #behindthescenesChicago

🌟 From hidden gems to world-famous icons, see the city in a whole new way on CAC's walking tours. Here are a few upcoming tours. Visit the link for info and to purchase tickets! www.architecture.org/city-tours

📐 Now this was a challenge: create a campus hub beneath the ‘L,’ reconnect a university, boost enrollment—& do it all beside a Mies van der Rohe masterpiece. ✍️ Rem Koolhaas rose to the task with the McCormick Tribune Campus Center. 📸: McCormick Tribune Campus Center https://bit.ly/41MMKo8

📽️ If HBO filmed The Gilded Age in Chicago, they definitely would have shot in the Palmer House Hilton. 🤩 This opulent, historic hotel originated as a wedding gift from retail magnate Potter Palmer to his wife. Tour it: https://bit.ly/41VvLzU 📸: Palmer House Hilton Interior, Photographer: Daderot

❤️ Love Chicago? Love architecture? Love sharing stories? 🏙️✨ Become a volunteer docent with the Chicago Architecture Center! You'll inspire people from around the world 🌍 while gaining skills, friends, and experiences you’ll never forget. No previous experience needed! https://bit.ly/4m3CkJ0

📐 Great architects should live in our hearts, minds, & maybe even our forearms 💪. Select CAC docents have been trained as tattoo artists & architecture tattoos are now available at the CAC Design Store. 😉 bit.ly/444G6c9 #architecture #Chicago #tattoos #AprilFoolsDay #AprilFools

River Cruise tickets are on sale for the 2025 season! Get yours at architecture.org/river-cruise

Saw that today. Absolutely stunning.

Entering into the vortex. On this day in 2019, we had a polar vortex on its way to Chicago...the city was already in a deep freeze as you can see from this image from that day. The temperature plummeted to a minus-50 wind chill three days later.

History of Architecture Robie House Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, built between 1908-1910, exemplifies his prairie-style architecture. photo: 07sketches

Boston may be Beantown, but in Chicago, we have THE Bean. Via @doorwaysofchicago on Insta #chicago #cloudgate #architecture

One of our favorite interiors!

Night/day shots of Chicago's Board of Trade Building. Not exactly square, but best I could do while dodging traffic on La Salle. Still developing photos from the @chiarchitecture.bsky.social Open House Weekend. 🧵 #chicago #architecture #symmetry #deco #artdeco

Hmmm…of about 20 or so posts on BlueSky so far…one has gotten more than 2000 “likes”, several have gotten zero. Wondering what the best way is to be seen on this platform.

Good morning you beautiful city, you. (Even if it’s from a few years ago)

Christkindlmarket with Picasso

Psst…let’s chat…friend to friend here…we know family is coming to town this week. And we know that you may need a break from said family. Just send them to us. We have tours all week and are happy to entertain unruly house guests. architecture.org/city-tours

The CTA holiday train and bus rides start next week. 🎄 🎁 ❄️ 🚂 Here's the schedule:

My column in today's @chicago.suntimes.com: Groups rally to preserve a deteriorating Frank Lloyd Wright home in the Austin neighborhood.

Migrating to the Mag Mile, Chicago

Hi all! Jennifer here from CAC’s social media. We’re trying to determine how to use BlueSky, so I wanted to ask you. What do you want to see here? Info about what’s happening at CAC like tours, programs, exhibitions? Fun facts about Chicago buildings & history? Architecture news? Tell us in comments