Gallery: The City-Sculpting Buildings of Chicago's Biggest Architect

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    City Hyde Park, an apartment building about to open on Chicago's South Side, features a playful array of stacked concrete panels forming columns, bays, balconies, and sunshades.
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    The Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Its flowing design is clad in wood masonry, and its three axis plan allows it to address separate contexts.
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    Just opened Northerly Island converts a man-made peninsula on Chicago’s lakefront into a 91-acre park imbedded with multiple habitats and ecosystems.
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    Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing
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    Aqua's undulating balconies create a shimmering, wavelike pattern along its 82-story facade.
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    Vista Tower's floorplates will step in and out, allowing for unique perspectives from inside, and a changing facade outside.
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    160 Folsom in San Francisco. Its projecting bays will shift as the tower progresses upward.
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    The Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo includes a bent wood and fiberglass pavilion inspired by a tortoise shell.
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    WMS Boathouse at Clark Park helps catalyze the recreational revival of the Chicago River. Its trusses are inspired by the motion of sculling.
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    The diamond-patterned glass facade of Solar Carve Tower in New York is carved away to allow light to reach both the high line and its interior.
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