Architecture & Public Art
ARCHEWORKS
Chicago Center for Green Technology
Chicago Architecture Foundation
IIT Architecture Tours
Millennium Park
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
ARCHEWORKS
625 N. Kingsbury (at Ontario), Chicago
312.867.7254, www.archeworks.org
Be Part of Social Change Through Design!
Now accepting applications for the 2010-11 academic year. Seeking emerging and mid-career architects, landscape designers, urban planners, and other inspired professionals. Archeworks is an evening postgraduate design program where students work with community partners to develop socially responsible and environmentally resourceful design solutions.
Chicago Center for Green Technology
445 North Sacramento Blvd.
www.cityofchicago.org/Environment/GreenTech/
The Chicago Center for Green Technology is the first rehabilitated municipal building in the nation to receive the LEED™ Platinum rating by the U.S. Green Building Council. Mayor Richard M. Daley dedicated the building in 2002 and it has gone on to become a national model for sustainable design and technology.
The Center serves as the most comprehensive green design educational resource in the Midwest. We promote and advance sustainable homes, workplaces and communities to enhance the quality of urban life. We work to facilitate this through educational programming and training, research and demonstration and by acting as a resource network.
For more information regarding educational programs, events and guided tours, please call 312.746.9642 or e-mail greentech@cityofchicago.org.
General Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9-5 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday 9-8 p.m.; Saturday 9-4 p.m.
Free
Chicago Architecture Foundation
www.architecture.org
The Mies Van der Rohe Society at IIT—IIT Architecture Tours
McCormick Tribune Campus Center
www.mies.iit.edu
Millennium Park
202 East Randolph St
www.millenniumpark.org
With an unprecedented combination of architecture, sculpture and landscape design, the 24.5 acre Millennium Park features the work of world-renowned artists, architects and designers including Frank Gehry, Anish Kapoor, Jaume Plensa and Kathryn Gustafson, along with a temporary sculpture exhibition by Mark di Suvero. Since opening in July 2004, Millennium Park has become one of Chicago's most popular attractions, hosting millions of visitors annually. Visitors are encouraged to make the Millennium Park Welcome Center, located at 201 East Randolph Street, their first stop, where they can pick-up maps and receive information about the Park.
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park
Governors State University
1 University Parkway
708.534.4486, www.govst.edu
The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, containing one of America’s largest outdoor collections, may well be the most enduring contribution to south metropolitan Chicagoland of that turbulent and exciting period in art, the 1960s and ‘70s.
Bruce Nauman, House Divided, 1983
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
P.O. Box 692
www.sculpturepark.org
Ongoing exhibition of large scale contemporary sculpture in a beautiful outdoor park that also has jogging and biking paths, and picnic areas. The park runs for 2 miles from Dempster St. to Touhy Ave. along McCormick Blvd. in Skokie, Illinois, just north of Chicago. There are parking lots in the northern and southern sections of the park.
The park is free and open during all daylight hours, seven days a week.
Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park Donor Tree by Joseph Folise
Free
