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AIA Chicago announced their 2006 Design Awards today. Ammar got an interior nomination for his Me Miyake interior:

It's very interesting, Ammar's work has always been minimal in the sense of how it reacts to program and having open plans. ...

You can dress it up all you want, it’s still a garage

Kudos to chicago's Landmarks panel for rejecting a plan wherein yet another building is stripped down to its historic terra cotta facade, and had something completely unrelated stuffed inside.  I've had enough of projects that use a multistory garage as street frontage, and dress it up in a fake ...

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