The Sprint Center arena remains under construction, but it already has landed a local design award. Process-development studies of the arena done by Ryan Gedney, of 360 Architecture and the Downtown Arena Design Team, earned best new construction honors in the annual Monsters of Design competition, which celebrates the work of young architects and industrial and graphic designers.
Chicago Designer Back To Square 1: Her Condo This is a story about kismet. But kismet wasn't on the mind of Chicago interior designer Lisa Ewing when she began renovating a loft for herself in the city's West Loop. Now she marvels at the concept after buying, transforming - and then selling - the place before she could fully move in. "It certainly makes a difference in everything we do," she
"Heart of Darkness," Joseph Conrad's searing critique of imperialism at the turn of the 20th century, is not part of the nursery school curriculum. If it were, it would look like Saya Woolfalk's "Winter Garden," a cunning and funny installation and video at Second Gallery.
In a city where work and home are as separate as church and state, a new breed of business owners divides personal and professional life with as little as a door or a staircase.
Joe Valente spent 3 years and about $250,000 to turn an old store into home. Anybody else probably would have decided the old Clark furniture store in downtown DeLand was a lost cause.
Restaurateur Joe Valente puts his vision into the old Clark building in DeLand to create a downtown loft. Anybody else probably would have decided the old Clark furniture store in downtown DeLand was a lost cause.