Wrightwood 659 by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Chicago
The redbrick apartment building sits next door to the same client’s concrete house.
Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Bio Bio Regional Theater by Smiljan Radic
Concepción, Chile
The interior is a grid of slender concrete columns and beams, intersecting with straight and spiral stairs.
Photo © Iwan Baan
Bio Bio Regional Theater by Smiljan Radic
Concepción, Chile
The theater provides a public space for the Chilean city, which was badly damaged in a 2010 earthquake.
Photo © Iwan Baan
Wrightwood 659 by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Chicago
The brick-clad atrium culminates in a wood-lined ceiling.
Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Wrightwood 659 by Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
Chicago
A story was added to the existing structure, offering views of Chicago’s skyline and of the client’s concrete house next door, also designed by Ando.
Photo © Jeff Goldberg/Esto
Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship by John Ronan Architects
Chicago
The building’s ETFE facade appears opaque during the day.
Photo © Steve Hall
Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship by John Ronan Architects
Chicago
The building contains two planted courtyards; a stair leads to an upper-level terrace walkway.
Photo © Steve Hall
Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship by John Ronan Architects
Chicago
The Tribune Stair is a gathering space on the ground floor.
Photo © Steve Hall
The votes have been tallied, and the readers of Architectural Record have selected their three favorite projects published in 2018:
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