Left: Photo © CAMESgibson. Right: Image © SOM
For a festival of architecture in a city synonymous with tall buildings, it seems fitting that skyscraper aficionados Skidmore Owings and Merrill play a significant part. Along with 19 local architecture firms and artists, SOM presents big ideas to improve Chicago featuring an extraordinary array of proposals from filling 15,000 empty lots with communal kitchens to reversing the Chicago River! This free exhibition is open to the public at the Chicago Cultural Center from Saturday.