Project Specs The Art Institute of Chicago'The Modern Wing Chicago, Illinois Renzo Piano Building Workshop << Return to article the People Architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Interactive Design Inc., architects (Chicago) Design Team: J. Moolhuijzen (partner in charge),D.Rat, C.Maxwell-Mahon with A.Belvedere, D.Colas, P.Colonna, O.Foucher, A.Gallissian, S.Giorgio-Marrano, H.Lee, W.Matthews, T.Mikdashi, J.B.Mothes, Y.Pagès, B.Payson, M.Reale, J.Rousseau, A.Stern, A.Vachette, C.von Däniken and K.Doerr, M.Gomes, J.Nakagawa; Y.Kyrkos, C.Colson, O.Aubert (models) Consultants: Structure: Ove Arup & Partners Services: Ove Arup & Partners + Sebesta Blomberg   Civil engineering Patrick Engineering Structure for bridge interface with Millenium Park: Wiss, Janey, Elstner Associates Inc

The biennial Euroluce lighting show took place this April alongside Milan’s Salone del Mobile. Though decorative luminaires were on the decline, some fixtures had forms that were way out there. Click here to view highlights from the show. Image shown Foscarini’s Fly-Fly

Benedetta Tagliabue joins Merce Cunningham on stage.

Project Specs Casina Northern Illinois Alfred Swenson Pao-Chi Chang Architects << Return to article the People Architect Alfred Swenson Pao-Chi Chang Architects 5530 South Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois 60637 773-288-6308 Pao-Chi Chang, Project Designer Alfred Swenson, Project Manager and Contract Documents Engineer(s): B + A Engineers, Chicago (MEP) Photographer: Craig Dugan Hedrich Blessing 312-491-1101   the Products Structural system: Steel Frame Exterior cladding Metal/glass curtainwall: Kawneer Glazing Glass: Reflective Glass Fascias: Pilkington LOF “Miropane”Hardware Locksets: HEWI Pulls: HEWI Interior finishes Paints and stains: Benjamin Moore Resilient flooring: Armstrong Medintech Furnishings Interiorcrafts G. R. Griffith Thonet/Armand Lee Lighting Interior ambient lighting:

Following two decades of prison and exile, Luyanda Mpahlwa is now a founding partner in the award-winning South African firm MMA Architects. He spent two decades in prison and in exile, but Luyanda Mpahlwa is now a partner in a thriving architectural practice. MMA Architects—his Cape Town, South Africa, firm—has gained international recognition for projects both at home and abroad. The firm’s work on an innovative housing project in the impoverished Mitchell’s Plain Township has just been honored with the Curry Stone Design Prize, a $100,000 humanitarian award established this year to pay tribute to designers tackling the needs of

Richard Armstrong, Guggenheim (top); Thomas P. Campbell, Metropolitan Museum of Art (above). Photo © David M. Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (top); © Don Pollard/courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art (above). The appointment last Tuesday of Richard Armstrong as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s fifth director not only capped a momentous week for the institution—which also celebrated the completion of a three-year restoration project of its famous Frank Lloyd Wright building—but brought to a close what turned out to be an eventful month for several leading art museums. Earlier in September, the Guggenheim’s neighbor on New York’s Museum Mile, the Metropolitan