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• Project Gallery: Science and Health Careers Center

  Light-filled classrooms enhance a 93,000-square-foot addition to Oakton Community College's Des Plaines campus: User-generated architecture by Legat Architects.

• Project Gallery: Roosevelt University Academic, Student Life and Residence Center, Chicago

  A Chicago school's vertical campus: User-generated architecture by VOA Associates.

• Up for Bids: Krueck and Sexton Chairs and Chaise

  Space-age furniture fit for a 1988 space-age apartment, Krueck + Sexton's Chicago Chairs and RK Chaise are up for auction in Chicago on Dec. 13.

• 2012 Annual Design Review, Bond Category, Citation: Poetry Foundation

  Chicago / John Ronan Architects

• Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects

  Tod Williams and Billie Tsien speak about their first project in Chicago, an arts building at the University of Chicago that pays homage to both the skyscraper and the Plains.

• Fallingwater Working Blueprints up for Auction Sept. 27

  Though it’s uncertain how many Frank Lloyd Wright blueprints are yet to be discovered, it’s still a rare opportunity when you get a chance to bid on your own set. On Sept. 27, blueprints from Fallingwater in Pennsylvania could go for at least $13,000.

• Steven Holl Chairs and Cabinet Up for Auction

  Steven Holl builds furniture that embodies the principles found in his architecture. Own your own for anywhere from $3,000 to $15,000 by bidding for four chairs and a cabinet on Sept. 27.

• Structural Insulated Panels Can Be an Efficient and Economic Solution for Sustainable Design

  Before specifying structural insulated panels in their projects, architects must understand the potential benefits and shortcomings of the system.

• Save the Weirdness of Prentice Hospital for Weirdness's Sake

  Aaron Betsky sees the downsides to the Prentice Women's Hospital, but fears that, if demolished, it will portend the slow replacement of willful weirdness with blandness on Chicago's skyline.

• Exhibit: 'Loop Value: The How Much Does It Cost? Shop'

  A pop-up shop by the Chicago Architecture Foundation factors in all of the hidden costs that products use throughout their lives. Through 2012.