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• Old Orchard Woods Condominiums, Skokie, Ill.

  A massive Chicago-area condo complex was designed, built, developed, and marketed by one man—architect David Hovey—and his firm, Optima.

• Inland Steel Restoration

  2009 P/A Awards honorable mention: Inland Steel Restoration, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

• Studio: Illinois Institute of Technology

  "There's no program, but there is a client," explains architect Dirk Denison of the studio he's conducting at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) with longtime friend film critic Jonathan Miller.

• RTKL Offices

  In its new office in the off beat Borg-Warner Building, RTKL set an example for its clients by designing a collaborative modern space, with a conscience.

• Life in a Fishbowl

  Two new LEED-rated dormitories at the Illinois Institute of Technology will monitor energy used by every person in real time?using electronic fish.

• Farnsworth House Flooded

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House, in Plano, Ill., was flooded with 15 inches of water in mid-September and will likely be closed for the rest of 2008.

• Wendell Campbell, First President of NOMA, Dies at 81

  Prominent Chicago architect Wendell Campbell, a founder of the National Organization of Minority Architects and a mentor to many, died at his home on July 9.

• Northwestern U. Now Offers Architectural Engineering and Design Degree

  The Big Ten school has announced a new concentration in architectural engineering and design beginning this fall. The two-year degree program, offered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be led by Chicago architect Laurence Boot

• Walter Netsch Dies at 88

  Walter Netsch, an architect who remained in the news decades after retiring from Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, died at his home on June 16. He was the last of a small generation of Chicago iconoclasts whose work ran counter to the city's drab corporate desi

• Chicago Philanthropist Opens House Museum

  Nineteenth century Nickerson mansion displays an exceptional collection of Tiffany artifacts.