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The two-story storefront at 4611 North Lincoln Avenue on Chicago’s North Side may not be Louis Sullivan’s highest-profile commission, but its delicate ornament and graceful proportions certainly reveal his skillful hand.

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center establishes a new 32,800-square-foot campus nexus for Parsons The New School for Design by uniting and radically reorganizing the street-level spaces of the school’s four buildings around a new urban quad.

First came the reconstruction. Jianfu Palace Garden (Garden of the Palace of Established Happiness), a compound in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City in Beijing, burned down in 1923.

At a fund-raiser held recently at the Diane von Furstenberg Studio Headquarters in New York City, a guest, Hugh Hardy, FAIA, ebulliantly broke out into a Gershwin tune, “I’ll build a stairway to paradise, with a new step every day.”

Located in New York City’s rejuvenated High Line district, The Cedar Lake Dance Ensemble is a technologically advanced black box theater for an ambitious dance troupe.

Box Services LLC photography Studio specializes in digital retouching and production for fashion photographers, magazines, and artists.

Located in a neighborhood that has transformed from turn-of-the century Victorian residences, to a bustling industrial, office, and retail district in the 1920s, to a neglected area of disrepair in the late 20th century, Biscuit Company Lofts is part of a redevelopment movement to revitalize abandoned industrial structures into work-live lofts.

The restoration of the Balboa Theatre, bordering the Gaslamp Quarter Historic District in San Diego, California, recreates the vaudeville-era theatre and movie house to its original 1924 design, while transforming it into a modern performing arts center that accommodates diverse performance programs, as well as community, corporate, and convention gatherings.

The largest synagogue in the world occupies a prominent corner on New York City’s Fifth Avenue across from Central Park.

In 1982, the Pennsylvania Electric Company abandoned use of the historic Chester Waterside Station on the Delaware River, a 1916 coal-fired electrical power plant.